The World’s Dictionary

Agur! (That’s “Hello” in Basque) Are you a bit bored with learning just English? Or maybe you are a world traveller or one of those brave and pioneering ESL teachers stationed in some remote part of the world. Or just someone like me who loves words! On this blog I bang on endlessly about my favourite language learning tool Pop-up Dictionary so I thought I’d show you a little of why I get so excited and try so hard to get my CPE, ECPE, IELTS and TOEFL students to get it for themselves (apart from the excellent testing feature). This is also a fantastic resource for anyone studying linguistics or interested in ancient languages or the preservation of minority languages at risk of dying out (see my previous post Death of a Language)

You can find all the following dictionaries at Pop-up Dictionary’s website and download your own free version here.

Encyclopedic:

	English
	Russian

Bilingual dictionaries:

Modern Languages

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  Afrikaans Ainu Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Azov Greek’s Languages Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Chinese Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Farsi (Persian) Finnish French Gaelic Georgian

  German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kashubian Kazakh Korean Koryak Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Mongol Norwegian Occitan Polish

  Portuguese Quechua Russian Romanian Serbo-Croatian Slovak Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tatar Thai Tibetan Tupi-Guarani Turkish Turkmen Tuvan Ukrainian Urdu Yiddish

• Ancient and Artificial Languages
  

  Ancient Greek Breton Enal Esperanto

  Ido Interlingua Latin Manchu

  Manx Old Church Slavonic Pali Sanskrit

Phrase dictionaries:

Albanian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Esperanto Estonian Farsi (Persian) French German Greek Multilingual

Hebrew Hungarian Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Malaysian Polish Portuguese

Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Vietnamese Zulu

Special Dictionaries:

	Bible and Qur’an Studies
	Buddhism
	Songs

It is also possible to create your own word or phrase dictionary at Pop-up if you want and there is a project to create a multilingual dictionary that is looking for volunteers, especially for creating sound files. In fact, you could even use the software to create a revision tool for a completely non-language subject. These are just some of the reasons I think this is a really wonderful tool and an inspiring project and despite being a great fan of freebies happily paid the small fee for mine!

Get yours here!

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