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Longman Dictionary of American English with Thesaurus and CD-ROM (New Edition)BUY FROM AMAZON.COM
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EDITORIAL REVIEWThe world's best-selling learner dictionary of American English has been completely revised and updated! Still the only intermediate-level dictionary completely based on authentic spoken and written English, the Longman Dictionary of American English now offers even more outstanding features, including Thesaurus Boxes and a full-color picture dictionary. Real Language *Completely revised and updated coverage, including terms from business, technology, and the media, ensure that students learn the most current language. *52,000 words and phrases. *Interactive CD-ROM with full contents of the dictionary. Real Clarity *The Longman Defining Vocabulary, limited to the 2,000 most common English words, guarantees that definitions are easy to understand. *3,000 key words are highlighted so that students know exactly which words to learn first. *Easy-to-see signposts get students to the right meaning quickly! Real Help *Fully integrated thesaurus explains thousands of synonyms and antonyms.*Spoken phrases are highlighted to help students differentiate between spoken and written forms.*Full-color picture dictionary brings words to life.* Learner's Handbook section contains Writing, Grammar, and Communication Guides to help with common errors and vocabulary acquisition. PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: LongmanPub. Date: 6th September 2004 Catalog: Book Media: Paperback Number Of Pages: 1065 Ean: 9780131703445 Isbn: 0131703447 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
This is very helpful for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) as well as English as a second language ESL. It comes with an interactive CD that is most useful.
It's very good...I use for my ESL homework, and the CD is great. It's helpful.
This dictionary is very easy to read, especially for people whom English is a 2nd language, like myself. It uses very simple words to describe the new words. The Thesaurus is right under the word, you can read it with the word without checking another section in the dictionary. It's very convenient and usable. And the program on the CD is so easy to use. It does require you to put the CD in a CD-drive and will check for it. But what's the problem? There are many other much more expensive audio editing programs that's doing similar things. The dictionary contains only 50K words. A little less compared to other dictionary. But this also makes it small and light enough to be portable. I wish I knew and had bought this dictionary when I first came to the States some twenty years ago. Highly recommended, especially for people whom English is their 2nd language. There is an issue with the dictionary. The dictionary does not have enough words for my daily use. Sometime even my third-grader cannot find the words she looked for from her text book. This caused major inconvenience and I'm switching to Oxford.
I recommend this dictionary to new immigrants in their ESL study. Their definition to words are clear and easy to catch. Besides that,workbook and pictures are much help. However, attached CD support by Apple itune software,it does not work alone unless you pay extra money.
This whatever it is was compiled by a LINGUISTICS professor by having his students wear tape recorders to record conversations for two weeks feed them into a computer and pop out a mess of words. This could have been accomplished by watching MTV for two weeks. It lists ESPN as a NOUN!!! It's an ACRONYM. PBS is also a NOUN in this dictionary (?) which again is an acronym but even worse the definition is: "PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM; A COMPANY IN THE U.S. THAT BROADCASTS TELEVISION PROGRAMS WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENTS." Huh!!!? PBS is a non profit broadcasting company that broadcasts cultural and educational programs. It is not about whether it has advertisements or not!!! Unless you teach a class that would require an example of bad reference material I would reccomend not wasting your money on this. SIMILAR ITEMS: |

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