I Found my New Favorite Online English Dictionary!
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Let’s compare four major online
Let’s compare four major online monolingual English dictionaries: The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, The Collins English Dictionary, The Macmillan English Dictionary, and The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Which one is the best English-English dictionary? Have I found my new favorite English dictionary? I’ve been using The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and The Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary for many years now, and they are great, but it’s time to try out other options to make the job of improving vocabulary even easier and more pleasant.
Online dictionaries are excellent tools for boosting your English vocabulary and making your speech and writing more natural. Looking up new words in English-English dictionaries is also a great way to improve your reading and listening skills because having extensive vocabulary is the key to fast comprehension of spoken and written materials in your second language.
We’re going to discuss the overall look and design of the dictionaries, test their capabilities to search for simple English words, academic vocabulary, misspelled words, phrasal verbs, idioms, and slang. We’re going to find out how good they are at showing us collocations, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, and word frequency. And, of course, we’re going to learn if these dictionaries are easy to use on our smartphones because most learners nowadays prefer to improve their English language skills on their phones.
___________Watch next______________________________
* Learn more about dictionaries and improving your vocabulary here: Boost your active and passive vocabul...
_______Contents of this video_________________________
0:00 The best online monolingual English dictionaries
0:58 The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary - design
1:30 The Collins English Dictionary - design
1:57 The Macmillan English Dictionary - design
2:07 The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary - design
2:34 The Oxford Dictionary - search
3:14 The Merriam-Webster Dictionary - search
4:01 Word frequency in English-English dictionaries
4:39 Merriam-Webster - synonyms, examples, medical and law dictionaries
6:01 Macmillan - thesaurus, collocations, emoji dictionary
6:57 Collins - video pronunciation, trends of usage, translations
7:17 Oxford - culture notes, examples, collocations, text checker
8:40 Idioms - search
9:46 Phrasal verbs - search
10:03 Academic vocabulary and fancier words - search
10:56 Misspelled words - search
11:10 Slang - search
12:12 Mobile optimization - dictionaries on smartphones
Transition whoosh sound https://freesound.org/s/432922/
Online dictionaries are excellent tools for boosting your English vocabulary and making your speech and writing more natural. Looking up new words in English-English dictionaries is also a great way to improve your reading and listening skills because having extensive vocabulary is the key to fast comprehension of spoken and written materials in your second language.
We’re going to discuss the overall look and design of the dictionaries, test their capabilities to search for simple English words, academic vocabulary, misspelled words, phrasal verbs, idioms, and slang. We’re going to find out how good they are at showing us collocations, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, and word frequency. And, of course, we’re going to learn if these dictionaries are easy to use on our smartphones because most learners nowadays prefer to improve their English language skills on their phones.
___________Watch next______________________________
* Learn more about dictionaries and improving your vocabulary here: Boost your active and passive vocabul...
_______Contents of this video_________________________
0:00 The best online monolingual English dictionaries
0:58 The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary - design
1:30 The Collins English Dictionary - design
1:57 The Macmillan English Dictionary - design
2:07 The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary - design
2:34 The Oxford Dictionary - search
3:14 The Merriam-Webster Dictionary - search
4:01 Word frequency in English-English dictionaries
4:39 Merriam-Webster - synonyms, examples, medical and law dictionaries
6:01 Macmillan - thesaurus, collocations, emoji dictionary
6:57 Collins - video pronunciation, trends of usage, translations
7:17 Oxford - culture notes, examples, collocations, text checker
8:40 Idioms - search
9:46 Phrasal verbs - search
10:03 Academic vocabulary and fancier words - search
10:56 Misspelled words - search
11:10 Slang - search
12:12 Mobile optimization - dictionaries on smartphones
Transition whoosh sound https://freesound.org/s/432922/
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