Picture Dictionary and Translation Sites

Among the many dictionary resources out there, I found these two particularly helpful for learners of different languages:
  • Pdictionary.com
    Pdictionary.com is a free, online multilingual picture dictionary for beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages. It includes activities to correct misspellings, and unscramble letters to form the correct word.
  • Alta Vista Translation Service
    This site offers a free translation service. Just submit a text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will translate it from English to Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch and many more, and viceversa. Just click and get an instant understandable translation.

Suggested Activities
  1. Make the picture dictionary available to young learners during lab activities. Ask them to look up difficult vocabulary words and then provide sentences using those words, a definition of the word, or a translation. Alternatively, you can assign these activities for homework.
  2. Teachers can use the translation service to help bilingual learners who lack the resources to speak in the L2. It is a quick way to get to know what a student wants to say and teach him/her the right word. Teachers can use this resource after trying to elicit the word from the student in other ways: e.g., with an example, a definition, a paraphrase, and the like.


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