Longman Advanced American Dictionary (with audio)
By Pearson Education
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Description
The dictionary for academic success.
“A must for every serious student of English!”
Patricia A. Richard-Amato, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles
Every headword pronounced. 25,000 audio recordings to help you learn the correct pronunciation.
Full color text, zoomable illustrations and extensive sound files make the Longman Advanced American Dictionary ideal for use on your iPhone.
• Full contents of the Longman Advanced American Dictionary
• 185,000 words, phrases and meanings
• 73,000 natural examples show words in context
• Thesaurus boxes with 10,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• 5000 etymologies help you learn the origins of words
• 6,000 new words for school content such as Science and Social Science
• 5,000 verb conjugation tables
• Full color technical illustrations with zoom function
• 3,000 most frequent words in spoken and written English highlighted
• Search history and book mark facility
• Progressive look-up for quick searching
• Academic wordlist highlighted to help you understand high-level academic texts
What's New in Version 1.4.1
Update to encyclopedic entry.
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Customer Reviews
Good Dictionary
I have the Longman Advanced American Dictionary and CD ROM as well, and I don't like carrying it around, too heavy. Now, I can carry the dictionary in my iPhone, v 1.4.1
I would like to see some updates implemented for the iPhone:
1) flip through from word to word. Now, you have to go back and then select the next word in the dictionary. Samething for the favorites list.
2) Implement multiple favorite lists, not only one
3) Be able to see horizontal on the iPhone
4) I would like to be able to record myself pronouncing a word and replay it. (This option is available in the CD but not in the iPhone)
This is a really good dictionary, which includes the pronunciation in IPA and you can listen how to pronounce the words.
A great dictionary app
Overall, this is a very good app. There are some drawbacks though: no audio for examples (just for headwords now); collocations aren't given in a separate box (like in LDOCE) and there hasn't been a single update for at least a year!
Unclear menu icons
I expected this dictionary application because it was by Longman. But when I downloaded it and started using, my expectation was suddenly changed to disappointment. Its menu icons such as "Dictionary" "Favorites" "Search" especially "History"!! are very unclear. In fact, you can find it now in the above screenshots. It really disappointed me. If you want to use standard designed application, I recommend you to choose another dictionary.
- $19.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Apr 23, 2010
- Version: 1.4.1
- Size: 214 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Pearson Education Limited
- © Pearson Education 2009
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 2.2 or later
