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'Truly a joy to use. It has to be the most user-friendly, information-sensitive dictionary available for the upper-intermediate to advanced English learner.' - David Shaffer, Vol. 3, No 1, Korea TESOL Journal 'The only dictionary a typical language student would ever need. Bang up-to-date and bursting with fun new expressions.' - The TEFL Farm '... the focus is more than ever on helping the learner.' - The International House Journal 'The best dictionary I have ever read in my life.' - Customer review, Amazon.co.uk

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Dictionary There Is, 19 Sep 2001

By	ghettosvend75@hotmail.com (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (Paperback)

As a student at the Business College of Copenhagen, studying English/IT, this has be become one of my most important tools. Being both easy to use and containing practically every word in English i could possible think of, this is a book that i would recommend anyone who deals with English on a professional level. But at the same time I would also recommend it to those who think that their english skills are perfect, because thos book will expand even the largest vocabulary!

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1.0 out of 5 stars The book is excellent, but the CD software is not., 17 Dec 2002

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This review is from: Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (includes CD-ROM) (Paperback)

The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is excellent, but its companion CD - Oxford Advanced Genie isn't. I wonder if it's just an experimental software or not, it seems not quite professional. The following problems have been found at the first time I was using it:

1. The dictionary window is quite small and cannot be resized. It causes part of content cannot be viewed. For example, when I type the word "landscape", after scrolling down to the Which Word section, there are 3 colomns of nouns that are frequently used adjectives ~landscape~scenery~countryside. But the third column is missing or partly missing even if the font size has been set to small. The same problem happens at Which Word section when I check the word Scottish. Between "... while Scots is only used to describe its people, its law and especially its language:" and "accent", nearly 90 words of text can not be viewed.

2. The e-dictionary can neither tolerate any spelling mistake nor even a wrong case. For example, the "Scottish, Sunday" are correct, but "scottish, sunday" cannot be found, and there isn't any hint for the word you are looking for. I belive that many readers of a dictionary are foreigners. They will often make spelling mistakes as well as use a wrong case! Most e-dictionaries on the market have such function to allow user to make mistake and rather than confuse the user by displaying a "No Result", they gave a list of words with similar spelling. And for wrong case, they just display the right word, not a "No Result".

3. QuickFind dosn't work in some web pages, so I have to copy the text and paste it into the input box of the dictionary. This is quite like a program bug.

4. Phonetic symbol cannot be viewed. If I don't want to install the sound file, as a non-English speaker, I won't be able to know how to read it.

In my point of view, the Oxford Advanced Genie has a long way to go to be a good commercial software.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A world's leading dictionary, 17 Jul 2002

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I believe it is the world's leading dictionary. Whenever you have a doubt on the English language you can refer to it. It is reliable, up-to-date and easy to use.
Among his useful features I would like to highlight:
-- Up-to-date coverage of both British and American English, written and spoken.
-- A complete reference book, with information on numbers, punctuation,
geographical names, the writing of letters, emails and CVs, irregular verbs, and a useful map section.
-- Easy to use, with rapid-access page design and short cuts to the right meaning in long entries.
-- Full grammar information and many notes show you how to use words in context.
--Topic pages, illustrations, synonyms and opposites help you with vocabulary building.
-- CD-ROM: click on a word, or simply point to it with your cursor in a Web browser, and the dictionary definition will appear in a small window on your desktop.

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