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RhysH (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 21 Ruhuhuma 2016 15:11:55

Bonan Tagon, mi havas problemo kaj mi bezonas io helpas.

I now work 72 hour weeks and despite having a computer I have no internet access, this has greatly reduced my learning time. I've ground to a halt. I downloaded many EO e-books and some audio lessons so I can get some studying done in my downtime. However the problem with reading this books, is I don't have a dictionary so when I encounter a word I don't recognise I can't go on. I used to use lernu's dictionary to overcome this issue but not internet means this is impossible.

Is there an Esperanto dictionary e-book or even better application I can download and take with me to work? Or failing that a vortaro that you can recommend?

devilyoudont (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 21 Ruhuhuma 2016 15:21:58

When I was learning a different language besides esperanto, I would read an entire chapter, jot down words I didn't know, look them up at some other point, and then reread the chapter having looked up the words.

makis (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 21 Ruhuhuma 2016 17:22:46

Download the ESPDIC wordlist.

Use it to look up words but don't use it to find a word. He adds any new words he encounters to it, so it has many strange and seldom used words in it.

makis (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 21 Ruhuhuma 2016 17:27:33

And a couple of books you could check out:

- Edinburgh Pocket Dictionary (if you can find it)
- Baza Esperanta Radikaro (if you have a decent handle on esperanto)
- Step by Step in Esperanto

Alkanadi (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 23 Ruhuhuma 2016 07:00:21

There are some apps for smart phones

erinja (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 23 Ruhuhuma 2016 15:55:56

Do a search in whatever app store you use for an esperanto dictionary. I think there are one or two available, at least.

When my husband was studying on his commute (essentially no internet access, in the Metro tunnels), he used the Richardson book, which I have recommended many times (Esperanto: Learning and using the international language). It's a great all-in-one volume. Brief history of Esperanto history and culture, 10-lesson course, extra readings to practice with, and a basic dictionary in the back, so you can look up words from the course and readings. You can usually find it used for pretty cheap, but it is not too expensive even new.

rayeshman (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 23 Ruhuhuma 2016 16:41:05

Use Goldendict and an Esperanto dictionary:
I myself have found a dictionary for Goldendict.
http://goldendict.org/dictionaries.php

bartlett22183 (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 23 Ruhuhuma 2016 17:39:33

I once downloaded an English-Esperanto-English dictionary for my Android smartphone. I found it on Google Play Store. However, there were two issues with it, so I uninstalled it. First, when it installed it wanted a lot of access to various personal information, such as location. Second, to use the Esperanto-English direction, it was necessary to install a smartphone keyboard (several are available, fortunately) which would allow entry of the E-o supersigned letters.

Whether there are others -- there may be -- I don't know, so you will just have to look for Android or iOS (depending on what you have). There are also E-o/English vocabulary drill programs which may be of help, at least some of which do not require an E-o smartphone keyboard. I haven't looked for tablet computers, which may be more convenient for some people.

erinja (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 24 Ruhuhuma 2016 01:44:44

bartlett22183: Second, to use the Esperanto-English direction, it was necessary to install a smartphone keyboard (several are available, fortunately) which would allow entry of the E-o supersigned letters.
Is there a special reason you were avoiding the keyboard? Android natively supports an Esperanto keyboard. No special installation required, you just change your Android settings to indicate that you want access to it, then it's pretty easy to switch back and forth.

bartlett22183 (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 24 Ruhuhuma 2016 19:20:50

My own Android smartphone is small, simple, and rather old, with an old version of Android (which it will not update), so as far as I could ever tell it does not natively support non-English accented (such as E-o) letters. I did download and install an alternate keyboard (free), but when I uninstalled what I considered an unacceptably intrusive E-o app (dictionary), I had no further use for the keyboard, as I myself do not do entry in non-English languages. However, fortunately my small, old Android smartphone can display the E-o supersigned letters with no problem, as I occasionally read emails from an Esperanto organization.

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