One World Dictionary 4+
Ascendo Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Multilingual Dictionaries for English to Spanish, French, German & Italian ☆ Free Version includes over 100,000 Translations, 1,000 Phrases & 5,000 Verb Conjugations ☆ Comprehensive Dictionaries, Phrase Books and Verb Conjugations available as in-app Purchases ☆ Audio Pronunciation
One World Dictionary by Ascendo is a leading multilingual reference tool for Apple computers.
The free version is a good starting point for beginners. It includes over 100,000 dictionary translations, 1,000 phrases and 5,000 verb conjugations in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. Extended dictionaries and phrase books are offered as in-app purchases.
The extended dictionaries are comprised of over 250,000 translations 6,000 verb conjugations per language pair. Translations include multiple meanings, part of speech, noun gender and verb tenses. One World Dictionaries integrate with Lion applications such as Safari so you can lookup words using control-click.
The extended phrase books include 528 phrases per language pair in 20 categories. You can add your own phrases and search by keyword.
BENEFITS
☆ Find words quicker than fumbling through a paper dictionary.
☆ Works offline so it’s always available.
☆ Integrates with other applications so you can lookup words quickly and easily.
FEATURES
✓ Dictionary includes thousands of the most used words in English, Spanish, German and Italian (free version).
✓ Extended dictionaries provide comprehensive databases comprised of over 250,000 translations per language pair (in-app purchases).
✓ Single searchable word index so you don’t have to switch language to find a dictionary word.
✓ Dictionary translations include multiple meanings, part of speech and noun gender.
✓ Verb conjugations in all major moods and tenses.
✓ Phrase books include over 200 phrases per language pair, over 1,000 in all (free version).
✓ Extended dictionary includes 528 phrase per language pair (in-app purchases).
✓ Search phrase book by keyword.
✓ Add, edit and delete your own phrases.
✓ Text-to-speech audio is provided in English. Lion users can download free text-to-speech engines for Spanish, French, Italian and English.
✓ Lookup words while using applications like Safari, TextEdit and many others by right control-clicking on a word and selecting “Lookup in One World Dictionary”.
✓ Lookup finds conjugated forms of verbs which make up a large part of any language.
✓ Change text size with one click.
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What’s New
Version 2.1.14
- Added Phrase Books for English to Spanish, French, Italian and German.
- Free version includes over 200 phrases in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.
- In-app purchase of Extended Phrase Books increases number to 528 phrases per language pair.
- Added search on keyword for Phrase Books.
- Implemented ability to Add, Edit and Delete sentences to Phrase Book.
- Added text-to-speech pronunciation for phrases.
- Improved dictionary entry format to include noun gender for non-US languages after the key word in addition to translations.
- Other improvements to navigation and in-app help text.
Ratings and Reviews
Could be better
The user interface is very good and productive.
But while testing the German->English version, I frequently stumble upon words missing in the dictionary (even in the paid version). The latest in a long list is “Anschreiben". That is disappointing.
I would recommend trying this app for a good while to make sure it lists all the words that you need translation for.
Does not use British English
I downloaded this free French-English (and Spanish and German) dictionary as my bible, Wordreference is not available for macbooks, or at least I couldn't find it in the app store.
It looked sleek and easily to get around, and I even like the touch of the Union Flag next to the English words, but I soon found out that the use of English in the dictionary is U.S. English. This may seem trivial to many, but I am British and expect (what is to me) a correct use of language. That is not to say I am saying U.S. English is incorrect, at least not to Americans, but the English I use is standard and we should be catered for. Apple and many third party apps have a huge market in the U.K. (and other countries that use British English) and so I deem foreign spelling unacceptable.
Not good enough for language students
I’m studying French in university and wanted to download this app to save me from having to bring my huge French-English dictionary with me whenever I go home for the weekends. This app is really not that helpful unless you just want to learn a few simple common French words. Even with that, there aren’t a lot of words available to look up. There is no feature where you can type in a French word to try to find the English translation, this was a waste of my time.
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Information
- Provider
- Ascendo Inc.
- Size
- 19.3 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.6 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2012 Ascendo Inc
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Extended Spanish English Phrase Book £2.99
- French English Dictionary £9.99
- Extended French English Phrase Book £2.99
- Spanish English Dictionary £9.99
- Italian English Dictionary £9.99
- German English Dictionary £9.99
- Extended German English Phrase Book £2.99
- Extended Italian English Phrase Book £2.99
- Google Translate Credits (10,000 characters) £0.99