Hi there, Vladimir here with another video about how to learn English
When it comes to learning a foreign language, I strongly believe that
Monolingual learner's dictionaries are our most important study tool.
I highly doubt you can master a foreign language as an adult
without monolingual learner's dictionaries
and even if you could, it would take double the time, triple the time.
Luckily for English language learners
English has the best monolingual learners dictionaries in the world
all free, on the internet
In this video I will walk you through some of the main features of
Oxford Learner's Dictionary
We need to start by saying that there are 2 Oxford dictionaries available on the internet
Oxford Living Dictionaries, which is/are more advanced
Oxford Leaner's Dictionaries, which is the focus of this video
Oxford learner's dictionaries dot com a great, great dictionary
Here are some of its main features
Say you are reading an article and you come across a new word
the word Success
Let us type it in: Success
What we see first is this KEY symbol here
And we see this The Oxford 3000
Find out more about the Oxford 3000
And it says
The Oxford 3000 is a list of the 3000 most important words to learn in English
The words of the Oxford 3000 are shown in the dictionary with a key symbol
How are the keywords selected?
The words which occur most frequently in English are included
I talk a lot about word frequency in my book Virtually Native.
There is no such thing as Difficult or Easy words
In my book I talk about Rare vs Frequent
Going back to our original word: Success
Next, Oxford gives us the pronunciation
First the phonetic alphabet and also
an audio recording of both British and North American pronunciation
super cool feature
You don't need a teacher to learn how to pronounce a certain word
Next is the meaning
Success: the fact that you have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get
Not the easiest of definitions I admit
At this point, if you still don't understand the meaning of the new word
my advice would be to reference another monolingual dictionary,
Cambridge in particular
And if you still don't understand then you can resort to a bilingual dictionary
Oxford provides 1 bilingual dictionary English German
Unfortunately it is a paid option
But don't you worry
Cambridge has a choice of over 17 bilingual dictionaries
having read and understood the bilingual definition my advice is to go back
and read the monolingual definition once again
Next are the example sentences, an extremely important feature
What's the secret of your success?
here in the example sentences is all the grammar you need
All highlighted in bold
success (in doing something)
Have success is what we call Collocation
Collocation is a combination of words in a language
Never study individual words, always in combination with other words
Here is Oxford Collocations Dictionary
All the collocations you need
I talk a lot about collocations in my book Virtually Native
Some collocations with Success
With adjective: Great success
With verb: Achieve success
With noun: Success story
Preposition: With Success, Success in
Here is your grammar
Never ever learn individual words, always in combination with other words
Collocations
It is how you learn grammar
The thing is you need to pay to see the full entry
but that is more than enough for beginner and intermediate learners of English
Nice touch here is that Oxford gives you the opposite word: Failure
It shouldn't be so down bellow, it should be next to the definition
better than nothing right
Next is the word origin, something I never cared about
And some extra example sentences
And finally we have some idioms with success
Oxford learner's dictionaries
A great dictionary, simple and straightforward
and believe it or not, this is just half of it.
There is so much more about how to use monolingual dictionaries
how to cross reference them,
how to study grammar and collocations
how to study example sentences
I talk a lot about monolingual learner's dictionaries in my book Virtually Native
I give you step-by-step instructions on how to use them
My book is available on Amazon and virtuallynative.com
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