Study New Languages

Translating dictionaries can be almost priceless in learning a new language. I have several translating dictionaries at the house and a few that are only in my target languages, but it seems I can always run across a word in something I’m reading that I can’t find in any of my dictionaries. Online translating dictionaries have been a great help (wordreference.com is a really good one.) But I still run into some of the same problem of not being able to find words.

dictionary.reverso.net has a good set of translating dictionaries online between English, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Russian and Italian.

I’ve also found translate.google.com is another good resource for the set of about 20-30 languages that google supports. One of the neat things with Google’s translate is it can automatically detect the language. I’ve seen this feature work well and I’ve also seen it fail miserably.