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    Ipad Russian/English dictionary

    Hello,
    Anyone using any? I downloaded some of the free ones but none have the ability to translate from the clipboard. Collins and Oxford say they can. Any opinions?


    Thank you,

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    ...have the ability to translate from the clipboard.
    You mean you can copy/paste to it?

    Anyway, Google Translate surely has an app for ipad. You have to be connected though.
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    You might also want to consider ABBYY Lingvo, Russians seem to love that thing, and it does look nice. I have the Oxford dictionary. You can paste words in the search field if that's what you mean? It has nice grammar tables for each word, and audio of a native speaker saying most words. I'm pretty happy with it. If you're looking to translate sentences, it can't do that.

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    I read a review of Oxford and it said when in Oxford and switching to another app then back to Oxford that the dictionary is not where you left it. True? Also, I have the Abby Lingvo for windows and love the feature that I can highlight a word and hit ctrl-c c and then the dictionary comes up with the definition of the word. How does the Oxford compare to that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hotdog View Post
    You might also want to consider ABBYY Lingvo, Russians seem to love that thing, and it does look nice. I have the Oxford dictionary. You can paste words in the search field if that's what you mean? It has nice grammar tables for each word, and audio of a native speaker saying most words. I'm pretty happy with it. If you're looking to translate sentences, it can't do that.

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    I have google translate - see my reply to Hotdog for what I'm looking for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valda View Post
    You mean you can copy/paste to it?

    Anyway, Google Translate surely has an app for ipad. You have to be connected though.

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    That's true, when you switch the app it goes back to the main screen. There's a list of the last 100 things you looked at which makes it pretty easy to go back, though I don't find myself using it that much.

    Do you mean that you can copy something in any application and Lingvo will pop up a translation? That is pretty cool! I don't think that's possible with iOS, but there are some apps that let you do that with Safari only. Look up "safari translate" in the app store. I haven't tried them personally.

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    In windows highlight the word then hit ctrl-c c
    and Lingvo will look it up. Will consider "safari translate" but need to look up words in email, facebook etc.

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    Using the Oxford iPad dictionary while in say a browser. What do you do to look up a word? I can copy and paste now to a free dictionary. How is Oxford or and other dictionary different?

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    Anyone?

    Quote Originally Posted by fortheether View Post
    Using the Oxford iPad dictionary while in say a browser. What do you do to look up a word? I can copy and paste now to a free dictionary. How is Oxford or and other dictionary different?

    Thank you,

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    It's not a dictionary but a great translator ipad app. It's called online-translator.com and will translate text from the clipboard. For now using the free version but will upgrade to the plus version. It only $2.99. Still looking for a dictionary for the ipad though.

    Scott

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    I did update to the plus version. Big help reading the jokes section. Also, bought Lingvo for Ipad:

    Lingvo Dictionaries: English ‹-› Spanish, French, German, Italian Dictionary Titles by ABBYY

    for $4.99 plus tax. Only downloaded the free dictionary. Will decide if need to buy more. It does accept input from the clipboard and stays in the same state when switching to another app and back. So far, I like it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fortheether View Post
    It's not a dictionary but a great translator ipad app. It's called online-translator.com and will translate text from the clipboard. For now using the free version but will upgrade to the plus version. It only $2.99. Still looking for a dictionary for the ipad though.

    Scott

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