| Current info about electronic dictionary is | | | | After consulting my paper dictionary I found |
| not always the easiest thing to locate. | | | | out that microphone is spelt the same way as |
| Fortunately, this report includes the latest | | | | in English. I went up to the shopping |
| electronic dictionary info available. | | | | assistant and asked for a 'microphone' for my |
| | | | PC in my best spanish accent but he didn't |
| George W Bush can't say 'nuclear'. Does it | | | | understand me. I then whipped out my PDA and |
| matter? He is the most powerful person in the | | | | got it to say the word 'microphone' to him as |
| world. But he is ridiculed for his vocabulary | | | | a test. I thought then that these things |
| and use of words. Would you want power as | | | | really work. |
| well as respect? With the daily use of a good | | | | |
| electronic dictionary you will begin to | | | | An electronic dictionary can now be used when |
| improve your pronounciation as well as your | | | | ever you need it as they are small, fast and |
| vocabulary. | | | | and audible. They can be standalone handheld, |
| | | | or downloaded to your PDA and cellphone or |
| From my research I know that with the latest | | | | you can use free online dictionaries. |
| sound technology pronounciations of difficult | | | | |
| words are much more audible and copiable. The | | | | I suggest you try out some of the free |
| searches are that much quicker than they used | | | | resources available that can be found on the |
| to be and the handheld electronic dictionary | | | | internet. Download some free, shareware or |
| now sits snugly in your pocket, unlike your | | | | trial software and use a few of the free |
| old style paper dictionary. | | | | online dictionaries. There are dictionaries |
| | | | available for topics such as languages, |
| There was a little boy who asked for a | | | | legal, medical, science, technical, business |
| hamburger but he was never able to have it | | | | and math to name a few. |
| cooked the way he liked or with different | | | | |
| kinds of filling due to his limited | | | | If you have just 7 minutes a day, use an |
| vocabulary. That little boy was all of us. | | | | electronic dictionary. Then you can build an |
| Most of us are still unable to ask for things | | | | executive vocabulary that grants you instant |
| exactly the way we want them. | | | | credibility and persuasive power by knowing |
| | | | exactly what words to say and when to say |
| If you are like me and live in a foreign | | | | them. |
| country, not having enough words to express | | | | |
| yourself becomes even more problematic. | | | | Of course, it's impossible to put everything |
| | | | about electronic dictionary into just one |
| Sometimes the most important aspects of a | | | | article. But you can't deny that you've just |
| subject are not immediately obvious. Keep | | | | added to your understanding about electronic |
| reading to get the complete picture. | | | | dictionaries, and that's time well spent. |
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