Can anyone recommend a good online Spanish dictionary? For French, I primarily use WordReference which is fantastic not only because there are lots of definitions but also because I can usually find answers to questions about phrases etc. (the ‘Forum’ threads are great and very conveniently organised). I find that WordReference is nowhere near as good for Spanish. I tend to use Google quite a bit, but it doesn’t help me much with phrases or multiple definitions of a word.
Does anyone know what the Spanish equivalent would be of WordReference for French? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Hello:
I use WordReference for translatios from english to spanish, but my advice, if you want to use a monolingual dictionary, is the web: www.rae.es. This is the page of the Spanish Lingual Academy. I hope it would usefull for you.
I use this dictionary http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/. Although it’s a Dutch dictionary, you can easily translate English - Spanish, Spanish - English. I don’t really know whether it’s better than WordReference, but you could try it. You just have to know a few words:
Vertalen = translate
Vertaal = translate
Van = from
Naar = to
You can also translate English into Dutch, French, German and vice versa. Based on the flags you can determine which language is meant.
@angela - I find it to be a bit hit and miss. With French, I remember so many occasions where I was able to just put the key word of even a relatively rare phrase into WordReference and there would almost always be a forum thread advising what it meant. With Spanish, I’ve found this to be the case on far fewer occasions, but it could be just my own experience using the site.
