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Très bon outil pour maîtriser l'anglais, 6 octobre 2003
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary PB with CD-ROM (Broché)
Il s'agit d'un dictionnaire avec un CD-ROM très pratique pour la consultation du vocabulaire en ou hors-ligne. Les points forts:
+ Présentation aérée agréable à lire et à consulter
+ Les exemples d'utilisation pratique bien explicités avec des erreurs à éviter
+ Le CD-ROM en ligne permet de repérer rapidement des mots recherchés
Quelques améliorations souhaitées:
- Absence de certains mots "courants" dans le dictionnaire
- La reconnaissance des mots en ligne ne fonctionne qu'avec WORD et Internet Explorer. Pour les autres, il faut copier/coller.
- Les parties Study Case et Exercices très utiles pour la compréhension, sont un peu succinctes.
Globalement c'est un remarquable dictionnaire.
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A very clear dictionary with a fantastic CD-Rom!, 1 janvier 2004
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary PB with CD-ROM (Broché)
I consider the CD-Rom you get with the book the best dictionary on the market. Each entry has IPA symbols and also a red loudspeaker icon for the British pronunciation and a blue one for the American. A microphone icon let you practise your pronunciation.
The feature I like using every day is the QUICKfind with the automatic sound. You just point the mouse at a Word document or at the text on a web page and the software speaks up the sound for you. While listening to the sound, the QUICKfind let you have a small dictionary window open on the screen with the meaning of each word you are pointing the mouse at, and the two loudspeakers with both English and American pronunciations are still there. Just imagine all those foreign languages and literatures university students who are going to prepare for their oral exams and have to be able to read aloud loads of poems with a perfect pronunciation and also explain the words' meanings - what a lot of time saved with the aid of this software!
The main window has three other useful icons, i.e. Exercises, Pictures and Study pages.
Among the Exercises, you can find Word Exercises (adjectives and adverbs, affixes, homophones, irregular and problem verbs, noun forms, suffixes, verbs meaning 'perform') and Pictures Exercises (animals, back, birds, body, car exterior, car interior, cars and trucks, clothes, flowers, foot, fruit, hair, hand, hats, head, in the kitchen, in the office, kitchen equipment, office equipment, phrasal verbs, planes, ships and boats, skeleton, sports, vegetables).
Among the Pictures you can find about 100 tables of content with colourful drawings. If you point the mouse at a drawing, its word appears, whereas if you click on the drawing, its meaning appears.
Among the Study pages you can find very useful documents in PDF format, divided into two categories, i.e. "Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation" (a guide to pronunciation, determiners, homographs, homophones, irregular verbs, modal verbs, phrasal verbs, prefixes and suffixes, punctuation, regular inflections, regular verb tenses, relative clauses, word building) and "General Information" (common names, common symbols, computers, geographical names, letter writing, measurements and quantities, money, periods of time, relationships, sounds and smells, telephoning, varieties of English, work and jobs).
I would give this item six stars, if only I could! Highly recommended to all those who need a very fast desktop companion, for it's a real pleasure to work with, and once the software is saved into your hard disk, you won't need to run the CD any more.
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