#translator reliance
cyan knoll
A French-English dictionary is always the way to go
If you have questions on it, make sure to ask
but they're like $30 and they are amazing usually
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translator reliance
cyan knoll
You want to buy one at a bookstore so you can flip through it first
Look up random words, cuss words, absolutely rank shit
make sure it has all of those things
you want it to be comprehensive
it's a lot more reliable than google translate etc
pulsar sand
yeah, i get that. Thank you!
cyan knoll
it is definitely a good purchase
Every english speaker who is serious about learning French should have one
high horizon
wordreference 100%
pulsar sand
Every english speaker who is serious about learning French should have one
do you have any specific recommendations?
high horizon
if wordreference doesn't have it, check wiktionary
but wordreference is by far the best for translation
cyan knoll
Yeah, is also good
Personally I think it's always good to have a physical book to look through, good for most people's attention imo
cyan knoll
do you have any specific recommendations?
Not particularly, this is the one I got though, it's pretty good
high horizon
physical books never worked for me personally
too much looking around and they generally don't have extensive translations
cyan knoll
To each his own
digital lion
I used this https://www.wordreference.com/
Set it to english-french or french-english
Its an amazing resources that includes essentially every possible meaning of a word
cyan knoll
I used this https://www.wordreference.com/
that's what a lot of my classmates use, I haven't tried it myself
high horizon
By far the best, that's why I recommended it :p
Pretty much everyone on this server uses it
Anything it's missing can generally be filled in by wiktionary, especially at high levels
digital lion
Theres a way to set a search shortcut in your browser so when you type in a keyword it automatically searches what you put after it
cyan knoll
Damn this is actually pretty cool
digital lion
I use the shortcut fwrc so if I dont know a word I just type "Fwrc * The word * "
and it pulls it up
cyan knoll
I'm gonna need an adblocker now, but seems like a cool site
high horizon
The 3 main dictionaries I use are:
- wordreference
- wiktionary
- CNRTL
Occasionally OQLF dictionnaire terminologique
Antidote is amazing too but it's paid
Wordreference is the only bilingual dictionary tho
digital lion
Word reference also has some idiomatic phrases as well which makes it even nicer to use
Also sometimes I see really well written answers to questions on their forums
high horizon
Ye
It's the best
Just at very high levels sometimes there's such niche vocab wordref just doesn't have it lol
digital lion
Yea true, thats when I come here lol
digital lion
Damn this is actually pretty cool
Also if you're going to use wordreference make sure not to miss the conjugasion area
It tells you the conjugations for verbs for all(?) the tenses
digital lion
Yep, if you search a verb, and click that it will give you the list of conjugations
tight spindle
It tells you the conjugations for verbs for all(?) the tenses
Some verbs don't have all conjugations and tenses. Gésir is one of them.
digital lion
Some verbs don't have all conjugations and tenses. Gésir is one of them.
Is that because it's just missing them on the website or because gésir doesn't have those tenses
tight spindle
The latter.
tight spindle
Yep, impersonal verbs just use il.