App Detail » Dizionario Oxford Study

Published by: Oxford University Press ELT

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 2.0
Released: May 22, 2012

What's New

This major update includes:

• New and improved interface and dictionary entry design
• New entries added to the English side of the dictionary
• Improved Favourites feature including creating subfolders and sorting options
• Sync Favourites with iCloud

IMPORTANT: For technical reasons we cannot preserve any user-generated Favourites, so you will lose any Favourites you have created. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

App Description

Do you speak Italian and want to learn English? The Dizionario Oxford Study is a best-seller, a reliable bilingual dictionary that is used and trusted by Italian-speaking learners of English to develop their vocabulary and language skills. You can look up a word in either Italian or English to find its translation, hear English words pronounced and learn how to use them correctly.

This free download will give you 50 sample entries from each side of the dictionary. An in-app purchase or Oxford ID license is required to activate the full dictionary.

Learn more with a dictionary that’s specifically written for Italian-speaking learners of English
• More than 60,000 words, phrases and examples – extensive coverage to meet the needs of English language learners
• The most important words to learn in English are clearly marked with a key (the Oxford 3000)
• Hundreds of colour illustrations, which you can enlarge and explore to further extend your vocabulary
• Study all English verb forms and hear them pronounced
• Extra information, written especially for Italian-speaking learners of English, appears in usage notes, for example related vocabulary, grammar and cultural information
• Build your topic vocabulary using pre-loaded Topics that bring together words to talk about Computing, Jobs, Sports, etc.

Find the word you want
• Search for the word you want in either English or Italian, and switch dictionary sides with one tap
• Use Full Dictionary Search to find your word in any phrase or example sentence in the dictionary
• Find a word even if you don’t know the spelling with the ‘Did you mean…?’ feature and wildcard search
• Swipe right and left to move through the dictionary alphabetically
• Tap any word in an entry to jump to look it up

Improve your pronunciation
• Listen to the high-quality, real-voice audio pronunciation of the English words in both British and American English
• Practise your pronunciation: hear words pronounced, record yourself saying the words and compare your pronunciation

Personalize your learning
• Create your own list of Favourite words
• Create folders to organize and store them