Cambridge Learner's Dictionary - CD-vel [antikvár]

IntroductionThis is a new, updated edition of the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, designed for students and users of English throughout the world.It has been written by a team of dictionary writers with a strong background in English language teaching, who really understand the needs of learners and the best way to explain what words mean and how they are used.While writing this dictionary we have spoken to hundreds of teachers and students in many different countries, asking them what they need, what they would like, and how they would like it presented. This has helped us to develop a style which is easy to understand while giving enough detail to help students understand and use English with confidence.One way that teachers and students helped us was in choosing the words we used in our explanations. We already used a strictly controlled list of meanings, but as a result of our research we cut out even more words, so now we can be sure that we only use words that students are really likely to know.This dictionary was written using the Cambridge International Corpus, a computerized collection of over 600 million words from a huge range of sources, both written and spoken, British and American. Our aim has been to include as many words and phrases as possible, while keepinga clear and attractive page. The corpus helps us to decide which are the most important words and meanings, and to find the most common patterns in which they are used. This means we do not waste space on rare words that students are less likely to need. The corpus also helps us find natural and typical examples to show how words and phrases are used.Another extremely valuable tool we have is the Cambridge Learner Corpus, several million words written by learners of English. This corpus shows which words cause the greatest problems for learners. We used it to help us to decide which words should have usage notes and which subjects to cover in our Study Section in the centre of the book. In other words, the information we show is there to deal with real problems met by real learners.The Cambridge Learner's Dictionary is available with or without a CD-ROM which contains everything that is in the dictionary as well as some great extra features such as spoken pronunciations in British and American accents, and a unique thesaurus search feature so that you can search for words by meaning.We hope you enjoy using the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary. If you have any comments about it, we would like to hear from you. Our dictionaries are all available for you to search online on our website:http://dictionary.cambridge.orgt-i-i