Product Description

This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.

NEW 32-page Oxford 3000™ Vocabulary Trainer, only available with the Paperback and CD-ROM edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8417 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

From the Publisher
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Customer Reviews

The Best Dictionary There Is
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!

The best ELT dictionary in the world
The best ELT dictionary in the world. We are professional Education Consultants and have researched ELT dictionaries for a number of years. There can be no doubt that the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the best dictionary for English language students, teachers, and schools - scoring consistently highly under objective and subjective research.

It offers clear, concise, contextual explanations of head words - helping students to master the skills of working with an English-English (rather than a foreign language-English) dictionary. As an authoritative reference, its framework of language is closely related to the English language examinations run by the UK examination boards - making it an essential learning aid for students working towards an English language qualification.

We have taken feedback from students worldwide, and the OALD has scored consistently high "suitability" ratings - making it ideal for students from Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, South America, Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent studying British English at an Intermediate level (pre First Certificate) or above.

The book is excellent, but the CD software is not.
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.