But beside good usability and many functions providing user comfort work, quality of the dictionaries matters.
Then you should know that the Lingvo dictionary entries contain up-to-date and detailed information on each word and phrase with various translations, word-usage examples from offline sources (books, newspapers, articles), grammar references, synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, spelling suggestions and, phonetic transcriptions. Russian words are provided with indication of stress. This is important because Russian words with different stresses means different things.
ABBYY Lingvo 12 English-Russian Dictionary contains over 2,500,000 entries in 50 dictionaries, including general, professional, specialized, regional, explanatory dictionaries as well as thesauri, phrasebooks, dictionaries of idioms and abbreviations. Most of these dictionaries are electronic versions of the authoritative and up-to-date printed dictionaries, 80% of which are published in 2003 2006. Some of these dictionaries, including Lingvo Universal are developed and published by the companys specialists.
If you need detailed information about the word, including all its meanings, translations and usage examples, press Alt, Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard and while holding it down click on the word you are interested in. Alternatively, you can select the word and press Ctrl+Ins+Ins, Ctrl+C+C.
In addition to comprehensive vocabulary, ABBYY Lingvo
English-Russian Dictionary offers the full-text search capabilities allowing users to search for words and word combinations in all texts of its dictionaries including headwords, translations, examples of use, and comments.
ABBYY Lingvo 12 English-Russian Version provides word pronunciations for three languages including 15 000 English words. All the words are SPOKEN by professional native speakers. In contrast to artificially generated sound, the natural speech can really help you to improve your pronunciation.
The program comes with a utility for learning words, Lingvo Tutor. With it, you can set up your study schedule, create your own word study dictionary or use one of the basic dictionaries included in the program. If your purpose is to learn by heart Lingvo Tutor might be the help. The Lingvo Tutor tool can also be installed on a pocket computer helping users to learn words on every possible occasion at any place. For example, on your Russian class.
