Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary HB with CD-ROM [Hardcover]

Cambridge University Press (Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0521824230 | ISBN-13: 978-0521824231

The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary gives the vital support which advanced students need, especially with the essential skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. In the book: * 170,000 words, phrases and examples * New words: so your English stays up-to-date * Colour headwords: so you can find the word you are looking for quickly * Idiom Finder * 200 'Common Learner Error' notes show how to avoid common mistakes * 25,000 collocations show the way words work together * Colour pictures: 16 full page colour pictures On the CD-ROM: * Sound: recordings in British and American English, plus practice tools to help improve pronunciation * UNIQUE! Smart Thesaurus helps you choose the right word * QUICKfind looks up words for you while you are working or reading on screen * UNIQUE! SUPERwrite gives on screen help with grammar, spelling and collocation when you are writing * Hundreds of interactive exercises

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Book Description

The ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Also available as book with CD-ROM.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1562 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521824230
• ISBN-13: 978-0521824231
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,728,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Dictionary For Foreigners, August 19, 2003

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Hasan Guclu (TROY, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary HB with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

For years people were saying the paper-ink dictionaries were going to extinct, everything will be digitalized. Apparently this is not completely wrong or true. In either way you are going to be happy when you buy Advanced Learners Dictionary since it gives both. The software it its CD is much more satisfying than other commercially available online dictionaries. QuickFind feature of the software shows the meanings and definitions without doing anything except you move the pointer to the word. Even now I'm using it to write this review. Although I am using computers all the time in the office I'm much more delighted with my paper-ink version dictionary. The definitions are very clear and concise. Especially guidewords technique are a very intelligent invention. Many times it happens that while I'm reading something with the help of my dictionary I stop reading the book and start reading the dictionary instead. I had the Cambridge International Dictionary of English before. But Advanced Learner's has much more for me. I gave my old dictionary to my cousin. I was so anxious I couldn't wait it in Amazon.com and ordered from England (amazon.co.uk). I highly recommend it especially to those learning English as a second language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very clear dictionary with a fantastic CD-Rom!, January 5, 2004

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VENTURINI VIVIANA (NAVE, BRESCIA Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary HB with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

I consider the CD-Rom you get with the book the best dictionary on the market. Each entry has IPA symbols and also a red loudspeaker icon for the British pronunciation and a blue one for the American. A microphone icon let you practise your pronunciation.
The feature I like using every day is the QUICKfind with the automatic sound. You just point the mouse at a Word document or at the text on a web page and the software speaks up the sound for you. While listening to the sound, the QUICKfind let you have a small dictionary window open on the screen with the meaning of each word you are pointing the mouse at, and the two loudspeakers with both English and American pronunciations are still there. Just imagine all those foreign languages and literatures university students who are going to prepare for their oral exams and have to be able to read aloud loads of poems with a perfect pronunciation and also explain the words' meanings - what a lot of time saved with the aid of this software!
The main window has three other useful icons, i.e. Exercises, Pictures and Study pages.
Among the Exercises, you can find Word Exercises (adjectives and adverbs, affixes, homophones, irregular and problem verbs, noun forms, suffixes, verbs meaning 'perform') and Pictures Exercises (animals, back, birds, body, car exterior, car interior, cars and trucks, clothes, flowers, foot, fruit, hair, hand, hats, head, in the kitchen, in the office, kitchen equipment, office equipment, phrasal verbs, planes, ships and boats, skeleton, sports, vegetables).
Among the Pictures you can find about 100 tables of content with colourful drawings. If you point the mouse at a drawing, its word appears, whereas if you click on the drawing, its meaning appears.
Among the Study pages you can find very useful documents in PDF format, divided into two categories, i.e. "Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation" (a guide to pronunciation, determiners, homographs, homophones, irregular verbs, modal verbs, phrasal verbs, prefixes and suffixes, punctuation, regular inflections, regular verb tenses, relative clauses, word building) and "General Information" (common names, common symbols, computers, geographical names, letter writing, measurements and quantities, money, periods of time, relationships, sounds and smells, telephoning, varieties of English, work and jobs).
I would give this item six stars, if only I could! Highly recommended to all those who need a very fast desktop companion, for it's a real pleasure to work with, and once the software is saved into your hard disk, you won't need to run the CD any more.