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Dictionary for Kindle and/or Android phone?

Post by HEPZIBAH »

Can anyone recommend a decent French-English / English-French dictionary that I can download to my Kindle and/or my phone (Galaxy Ace). A free download would be preferable but prepared to pay if it's a good dictionary i.e easy to use and informative without being too complex.


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Can't recommend one, but Google App's will have loads of free ones.. You more or less have to sign up for that with Android.. :cg
I guess by best, you mean Accurate. . . :tk :tk
Only one way to check that.. :cg
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J'ai utilisé celui-ci: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... free&hl=en

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Je vous remercie beaucoup pour l'information sur le dictionnaire. Je vais regarder de plus près quand j'ai le temps.
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I think that you have all had your heads together, type French so Dusak can't torment us. :lol:
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Amazon have the Collins dictionary for the Kindle at £3.99. There are also cheaper versions of French English dictionaries

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Post by HEPZIBAH »

Thanks Stan. I did a quick search on Amazon but the couple that I looked at were really only translators for the Kindle i.e to work in conjunction with the books being read. I'll have a look at this one too. It would be useful to have one on my phone and my kindle at the moment.
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How funny...i downloaded a Hebrew/ English one for free today for my upcoming trip.
Bet I don't use it! :lol:
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At the moment I have just started reading "Kullu tamam!, an introduction to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic". Though it is not specific to Luxor Arabic, it does cover the essentials and has a fairly extensive dictionary (Arabic to English and English to Arabic) at the back. I do not know if I shall stick at it long enough to learn some useful phrases as I am 70 and already speak seven languages with varying degrees of proficiency. Learning Hieroglyphs gave me enough understanding of totally new vocabularies together with a new script to be able to recommend this book, but expect to spend a lot of time learning. For those who just want a dictionary, I think the one included will be sufficient. It is published by the American University in Cairo (to whom I have no connection!).
I see that the Passport Office (to choose something in all our interest) translates as idart iggawazat ( don't have the necessary transliteration characters on my keyboard!).
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Re: Dictionary for Kindle and/or Android phone?

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Bullet Magnet wrote:Can't recommend one, but Google App's will have loads of free ones.. You more or less have to sign up for that with Android.. :cg
I guess by best, you mean Accurate. . . :tk :tk
Only one way to check that.. :cg
Learn French, or find a French friend.. or "Ami Francais".. Bon Ami Francais, even.. :cool:
Ou, peut-être, une amie Française. :wi
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