Oxford Spanish Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: MobiSystems, Inc.
First release : 30 Jul 2013
App size: 76.51 Mb
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary is the most trusted and widely adopted Spanish bilingual dictionary available. It is used as a key reference tool by language professionals as it offers over 300,000 words and phrases, 500,000 translations, and is full of grammatical usage information for both languages. Regarded as one of the flagship products in Oxford University Press catalog of dictionaries, the app features advanced search and learning tools designed by a vastly experienced developer.
WHAT MAKES OXFORD DICTIONARY OF SPANISH BETTER THAN OTHER DICTIONARIES?
• The very latest vocabulary (2018 edition), with over 300,000 words, phrases and meanings.
• Tens of thousands of regionally specific entries reflecting the unique richness and global adaptability of the Spanish language.
• 75,000 audio pronunciations of both common and rare words, including those with varying pronunciations (Premium only)
This app is tailored to professionals, students, and academics, as well as anyone who needs a comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of current Spanish at work or at home.
LATEST APP UPDАТES:
• Learn in style with any of the four colorful new themes – the colorful layout will turn your learning experience into an enjoyable routine. Customize your dictionary and benefit from the cheerful mood your favorite color brings you.
• Dive right into the intricacies of the language - with a new and convenient Home page, sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches - you can now get to the desired entry faster than ever.
• Translate and learn as you speak with Talk & Translate – use this speech recognition & text-to-speech app by downloading it for Free from the App Store. The great synergy between the two apps will help you optimize your studies.
SEARCH TOOLS - quickly find words with the functional, clean and easy-to-use interface. Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience, the dictionary combines several search tools to match or predict what are you looking for, including:
• Search autocomplete helps you find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type.
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases.
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results in seconds.
• Voice search helps you find an entry using your speech.
• Automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ that corrects word spelling and a ‘Wild card’ that allows you to replace a letter or entire parts of a word with * or ? when you don’t know how it`s spelled.
LEARNING TOOLS - engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary. Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies, this dictionary combines several learning tools to help you be more organized:
• ‘Favorites’ that allow you to create custom folders with lists of words.
• Recent list which helps you to easily review looked-up words.
• Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.
• Word-of-the-day option to teach you a new word every day.
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Latest reviews of Oxford Spanish Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
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Ive recently started teaching myself Spanish, and this app is definitely a handy tool to have. Its got grammar notes and glossaries for English to Spanish and vice versa. Its meant to both help English speakers learn Spanish, and Spanish speakers, English. It includes pronunciation keys for both, and a favorites tab where you can quickly reference words that you need to be able to look up quickly. There is also a history tab where you can reference translations you looked up previously. I definitely recommend this app to English speakers teaching themselves Spanish. Since I cant yet read the Spanish side of things, Im uncertain if its as handy for Spanish speakers learning English, as far as notes and things go. Anyway, 5 stars.
Save you money! I was looking for a good dictionary to help with my study of Spanish and I was excited to see the Oxford dictionary published as an app. Wow, was I ever disappointed. Ive been using Apple apps for five or so years and this is the worst rip off I have ever encountered thus far. If you are in the the market for a good Spanish dictionary, then Word Magic or Dict Box are far better choices. Either of these are much more comprehensive than Oxford and they are much less expensive. Oxford is so cheap that it doesnt even have a pronunciation guide or audible assist.
Woah, the first reviewer is WWWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY off. There is no other dictionary published in English that actually helps translation as much as this one. Where this resource has always excelled is giving nuance. Why prefer one word over another? The OSE goes into exhaustive detail. OSE also gives localized words according to Latin America, Spain, and even particular countries on occasion. As to pronunciation, whereas it is true that there are no Spanish phonetic guide for particular words, the pronunciation guide is pretty exhaustive for standard Spanish, and even gives the regional variations for ll etc. perhaps the reviewer is not aware that Spanish has far more uniform pronunciation than English? The English side does give IPA phonetic guides. It is true that a sound sample would assist in catching the subtle differences between things like the pure o of Spanish and the typical diphthong o of an English word like goat not to mention the English short o like fox. Does that justify a 1 star rating? No. As far as dual-language dictionaries go this one is the standard whereby all others ought to be judged, and often found wanting. Having looked over the images on Word Magic it is also an impressive resource, no question, but its not the standard. I will also agree that $20 is rather expensive which is why I held off so long in buying it.
This was a four to five star app before todays update was installed. Now the search option in the bottom task bar has disappeared and there is no way to just browse the dictionary entries anymore. How is that improvement??? A dictionary that doesnt let users browse is completely worthless. Add this functionality again and its four to five stars.