Collins English Dictionary Reviews

Microsoft Translator Reviews

Collins English Dictionary mentions (7)

• What's a small thing that drives you crazy?

  "The practice of carrying out or watching sexual activities in semi-secluded locations such as parks or car parks" as copy+pasted from the collinsdictionary.com website. Source: about 1 year ago

• What is the best dictionary app/website for Italian?

  Collinsdictionary.com and reverso.net: Quick ways to translate words and texts from English to Italian and vice versa. Collins has genders, pronunciations and conjugation as well. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you create your own flashcards when immersing yourself in TL content?

  For me, the method depends mainly from the resources I have. For Spanish I'm using spanishdict.com and it has a convienient way to create lists of words, so I just save a new word I see and then after some time I convert that into flashcards. For German I'm using collinsdictionary.com which I use as a normal dictionary, so usually I either create new cards while immersing myself or write them down to a file and... Source: over 1 year ago

• How to improve grammar for native English speakers?

  The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read more. Read good-quality material (classic novels and quality newspapers, not social media or tabloids). Whenever you encounter a word you don't know, look it up in a dictionary and note what it means in the context of what you are reading. (Don't just Google it as you can't be sure that what you find is true.) If you don't own a dictionary, then... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Question Regarding Catapults.

  The definition I have found is "a heavy war engine used formerly for hurling stones, etc" (collinsdictionary.com, 5/22). Source: about 2 years ago

Microsoft Translator mentions (8)

• How can I get subtitles or some kind of translation into Spanish while I am teaching in English?

  Do you have access to Microsoft products? They have an appthat students can add to a device that will translate your spoken words into text (you have to have the app or website open as well). There are several other Microsoft translation tools that would also work in different ways, which you may be able to use without a Microsoft license. Google’s translation tools are not as well integrated. Source: over 1 year ago

• Translation software

  Translator.microsoft.com works fine in a web browser - and all I have gotten is positive feedback from my colleagues in UA about the quality/accuracy of the translations. Source: over 1 year ago

• What invention would you want to see in your lifetime?

  Iirc Microsoft, Apple, and Google are working on this with the help of AI. We are playing around with the Microsoft Neural Machine Translator at work to assist with translation for non-English speaking patients. https://translator.microsoft.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF MACHINE TRANSLATION

  It is very interesting to understand how Machine Translation engines work such as Masakhane translate, Google translate, Amazon, Microsoft Translator, etc. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Germans hosting refugees from Ukraine are rushing to learn their language — with some classes already fully booked.

  For anyone who does not know the language and is looking for an effective way to bridge the language gap: I have been using https://translator.microsoft.com/ and it has been very useful. Source: about 2 years ago