ABBYY Lingvo Live is the only service in Russia, which provides its users with world-famous Collins dictionaries, said in a statement. ABBYY relevant agreement signed with the publishing house Harper Collins Publishers. Make use of the Collins dictionaries as possible on the website and in mobile apps Lingvo Live.
Dictionaries Collins known for the quality, scope, sophistication and reflect the peculiarities of modern language. Now Live in Lingvo dictionaries are available following publishing houses:
- Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary New Digital Edition (about 90 000 entries)
Dictionary Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary designed for learners of English and contains the modern English vocabulary. The dictionary is very easy to use, as articles written in simple, natural language. All usage examples are taken from the repository of the texts of English Bank, which is part of the project the Collins Word Web. The user will also have to grammatical information and additional information on the frequency of words, synonyms and pragmatics.
- Collins Spanish Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, (approximately 200 000 entries)
By adding in another edition of several thousand new words, this is the best in the world great dictionary of the Spanish language remains the ideal textbook for learning the language at an advanced level and use of specialists. With regard to the text body, consisting of several million words, with detailed notes about the Spanish language, grammar, culture, and the huge number of idioms and examples, this edition is the largest dictionary of the Spanish language.
Collins dictionaries allow to broaden the base Lingvo Live, which has more than 130 dictionaries for 14 languages.
Cross-platform service Lingvo Live allows you to not only receive free online access to dictionaries, but also enjoy other useful features for anyone learning a foreign language or improve their knowledge. So, users can add their variants of translation, to fill up the new words and expressions a database called “people’s dictionary”, and also to ask for help from the community, if you are unsure of the meaning of a word. Other community members can evaluate the translation and posting comments. It is important to note that linguists ABBYY verified user-added content to dictionary database remained high-quality and modern.
In applications Lingvo Live app for iOS and Android, you can use the dictionary even without access to the Internet by subscribing to offline dictionaries.
