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What level Spanish is your daughter? Having been a Spanish learner myself, and now an English teacher, what I recommend to all my students at, let�s say, the intermediate level and higher is to buy a same-langugae dictionary. It is a great way to enhance vocabulary skills. So, if your daughter is at an intermediate level or higher of Spanish, I recommend that she buy a Spanish/Spanish dictionary. It will help her get out of the "translation" mode and into the "thinking in Spanish" mode. 
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| Posts: 1376 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 24 March 2002 | |
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Hi Kaycee, as an ex-Spanish teacher myself I am with Chica on this one. A Spanish-Spanish dictionary will be much more conducive to learning than a Spanish-English one that simply gives her the "easy answer". She should also have a good Spanish-English dictionary for those "toughies". You wrote... quote: She's found that the dictionary she took with her from the States is not comprehensive enough.
Can you tell us the name of that dictionary please??? Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12233 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Hola Kaycee, I am a librarian and this is a question that is often asked by our students. The problem is that many English/Spanish dicitonaries are developed for Latin American Spanish, which varies slightly. For example the new Oxford Spanish-English dictionary, will tell you that they offer detailed coverage of Latin American Spanish. Likewise, the unabridged Harper Collins dictionary has excellent coverage of Spanish as used in the Americas. I recommend Durvan's Diccionario Espa�ol-Ingl�s- Espa�ol (56 euros) as an excellent choice, there is also Espasa's Diccionario Espa�ol-Ingl�s-Espa�ol (40 dollars). A nd since your daughter is now in Spain I would recommend that she buy the latest Real Academia's Diccionario de la LenguaEspa�ola,22nd ed. 2001/2003 printing. it is worth the investment, and can be purchased anywhere in Spain. Good luck on your purchase!
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| Posts: 697 | Location: Florida | Registered: 24 August 2001 | |
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Hola, I am a graduate student at Middlebury in Madrid and I just spent the last year writing an undergraduate thesis at Boston University in Spanish, and I have to say that the dictionary that was most usefull for me, then and now, is the Gran Larousse unabridged Spanish English dictionary. It gives tons of usage examples with each definition to help you really find how to express want you want to say. Although I also have a same language dictionary, and occaissionally consult the Real Academia one at the library, there is nothing that has been as helpful to me in my studies as the Gran Larousse. I actually own 2 copies because I bought one in the states, but it was too big to bring over with me, but then I realized that I NEEDED it here, so I bought another! Seriously, it is the best! I think I got my copy here for about 40 euros, and they have them at at the major bookstores like Casa del Libro, or FNAC. Michelita
"I have climbed the highest mountain, I have run through the fields...And I still haven't found what I'm looking for..."
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| Posts: 82 | Location: MADRID!!! | Registered: 08 January 2003 | |
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Booklady, I agree that the RAE dictionary is a good investment. It can also be aused online at http://buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm Kaycee, did I miss a beat? Who is Marissa?  Oh well, please come to the Sunday game anyway. Or is meeting the rest of us not enough  Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12233 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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