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Originally Posted by SampleAndy
Hey Blossom, it's been a couple days since you got the dictionaries. I was wondering if you could share your opinion of them. From the reviews at Amazon other buyers didn't seem all that impressed. All the books I read are in English, but some of the old classics have quotes in other languages that I'd kinda like to understand.  Of course, understanding the words isn't understanding the phrase, but it's better than nothing.
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French-English, Spanish-English dictionaries are not necessarily going to translate French or Spanish phrases in otherwise English texts. These phrases would need to be tagged with the appropriate lang attribute, and the reading system has to pay attention to the attribute. I have been meaning to do an experiment that proves inline lang attributes are noticed by Paperwhite but haven't gotten around to it.
Even where both of these conditions are met, the Translate feature auto-detects the source language and is going to be a lot more useful in translating a phrase or paragraph than looking words up one at a time.
The translation dictionaries will be useful (for example) when one has a little fluency in French and just needs to translate a word here and there.