{"id":8,"date":"2009-01-27T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:09:04","slug":"dictionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/01\/27\/dictionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionaries are certainly one of the most heavily used online tools.\u00a0 Most simply head to old-fashioned WordReference.com or something similar.\u00a0 There may, however, be better options.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Arthur Vining Davis classroom (room 209 in Bosler), Babylon is probably you&#8217;re best option.\u00a0 Use the scroller on the mouse to click on any word, and the English definition along with any conjugation will pop-up.\u00a0 Alternatively, you can click on the bubbly blue B in the task bar and enter a word.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordchamp.com\/lingua2\/Reader.do\">WordChamp web reader<\/a> is a great option for students reading online.\u00a0 Choose the language of the web page, enter the url in the text box, and press the read button.\u00a0 The web reader will then scan the page and look up each word in a dictionary.\u00a0 Touch any word with the mouse and the definition will appear.\u00a0 If you create an account on their site, you can save words and test yourself later.<\/li>\n<li>Google may be the world&#8217;s best dictionary if used properly.\u00a0 First, there is the official function.\u00a0 Go to the localized version of Google for the language (ex. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.de\">www.google.de<\/a>) and enter define:komisch.\u00a0 It will return a German definition with the option to see an English translation by clicking the link &#8220;Englisch&#8221; at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 The real power of Google, however, comes with its less formal use.\u00a0 We can search Google pages located in Germany for a certain phrase by including the phrase in quotes followed by site:de.\u00a0 This is useful for students when they&#8217;re unsure of their word choice or an idiomatic phrase.\u00a0 Correct phrases will appear thousands of times in reputable sources.\u00a0 Poorly translated idiomatic phrases and incorrect usage will have a very few number of hits on much less recognized sites.\u00a0 For example, if we go to www.google.de and enter &#8220;so schwer wie Eisen&#8221; site:.de (as hard as iron), we&#8217;ll see we only have 5000 hits.\u00a0 The examples from German sites only occur when the writer is actually comparing metals or compounds that are in fact &#8220;as hard as iron&#8221;.\u00a0 On the other hand <span class=\"boldfont\">&#8220;<\/span><span class=\"boldfont\">Hals \u00fcber Kopf&#8221; site:.de (literally &#8216;throat over head&#8217;, it means &#8216;in a big rush&#8217;) returns 130,000 in a context you would expect.\u00a0 The same method could be use to check to see if accusative or dative is used with a certain preposition, common word order, etc.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionaries are certainly one of the most heavily used online tools.\u00a0 Most simply head to old-fashioned WordReference.com or something similar.\u00a0 There may, however, be better options. In the Arthur Vining Davis classroom (room 209 in Bosler), Babylon is probably you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/01\/27\/dictionaries\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}