07-22-2014, 03:18 PM | #1 |
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German -> English Dictionary and noun/verb forms
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Hoping to buy a Kindle PW2 to help me learn German and could really do with your help as totally new to Kindle and ebooks What I would like to do/happen is that I highlight a word in a German text and I get the english translation for the word. Ideally I would like to be able to do this whilst out camping so guess the dictionary would need to be permanently on the kindle and not reliant on 3g or wi-fi connections. I would like a PONS english- german dictionary if possible. Also, is there a way I can highlight a german noun and then get the gender and plural form of it? Or highlight a verb and get the different tenses? If anyone can help shed some light on this I would be most grateful. Thanks Steve |
07-23-2014, 05:35 AM | #2 | ||
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PONS offers some of their dictionaries for Kindles. However, you'll need to buy separate dictionaries for each translation direction. (I.e., you cannot use their English->German dictionary to look up German words.) Quote:
AFAIK, most look-up dictionaries don't offer this feature; you'd need a dedicated app for that. BTW, MR offers a large selection of German ebooks. |
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07-23-2014, 05:55 AM | #3 |
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Just to be absolutely clear, though (and I know you imply this in your post, but I wanted to spell it out - no pun intended), the Kindle comes as standard with a (very good) monolingual German dictionary, but not with a translation dictionary. If you want a translation dictionary, you have to buy one (or find a free one, but that's probably not going to be anything like as good as a commercial dictionary).
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Hi Replyers!
Thanks for the info. First..the important question: Does the PW2 3G offer any major advantage over the non-3G PW2 for learning languages? Reading around, the 3G is restricted to certain sites eg Amazon and not a real web browser. Is there anything I would miss by taking the non-3g PW to master the german language? I'm still deciding which PW2 to buy..... Is there any better german-english dictionaries than PONS? I use PONS on the internet and find it ok, but as you can see by my endeavors in learning German, I am not a german dictionary expert copied from Doitsu's reply: Quote:
How do I access the flashcard program? Thanks for your help! Steve |
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07-23-2014, 08:16 AM | #5 | |
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There are a couple of Android apps, but I don't know if they're any good. Note that the Kindle Fire and Android Kindle apps do not support custom dictionaries. It's a part of the Kindle firmware. Whenever you look up a word, the Kindle automatically saves the word, the sentence in which it occurs, and a dictionary link in a database on the Kindle, which can be accessed via the Vocabulary Builder menu option. |
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