Mac Users: Thai-english English-thai Dictionary (free)

[Ratsima]

My misses found this on the MacDD web site:

Thai Dictionary for the Mac Dictionary App

English-Thai and Thai-English dictionaries are to be used with OS X Dictionary application as an additional source to support word translation for Thai language. These dictionaries package is created by Infinisoft Technology from the Longdo Dictionary project compilation. (http://dict.longdo.com) contents:

- NECTEC Lexitron 2 (EN-TH, TH-EN)

- Hope Studio (EN-TH)

- Nontri (EN-TH)

- Longdo EN-TH (EN-TH)

Seems to work very well.

Sorry if this has been posted before....

[nidge]

I never saw it before and i'm very happy to stumble across it now.

Thanks,

Nidge

[desi]

Mac. Lovely. Thank you for this.

Btw - It would be great if one of the Thai language seniors would check it out for us.

[Ratsima]

Check for yourself. Look up the English word "bank".

Not exactly what you'd expect....

[desi]

Oh well ...

[nidge]

Check for yourself. Look up the English word "bank".

Not exactly what you'd expect....

Actually, if you look at the word bank in the normal dictionary, the first description is

bank 1 |baŋk|

noun

1 the land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake : willows lined the riverbank.

further down the page it then gives the description you were obviously expecting. Likewise, on the Thai page it also has....

(แบงคฺ) n. ธนาคาร,ฝั่ง,มูล

Is that what you were looking for?

[Ratsima]

I just picked "bank" as an example of how this dictionary is really not a dictionary for learners. If you type in "bank" you get the following list of nouns:

bank

[N] ตลิ่ง; ชายฝั่ง, เขื่อน, ฝั่ง S.embankment; levee

[N] ทิวยาว; เทือก, แถว, แนว

[N] ที่ลาดชัน; การลาดเอียง

[N] ที่เก็บข้อมูล อาหารหรือเลือดเพื่อใช้ตอนฉุกเฉิน; สิ่งที่สำรองเอาไว้

[N] ธนาคาร

[N] หาดตื้นๆ (ใต้น้ำทะเล); ที่ตื้นเขิน

[N] เงินที่ได้จากการเล่นการพนัน; เงินพนัน

Only the first one has English synonyms. So, if you're looking for the Thai word for "financial institution" you're stuck with picking the winner amongst the following six in the list.

If you pick the winner and click on it to see if you're right you get:

ธนาคาร

[N] bank S.แบงค์

So, not too helpful for learners, but useful nonetheless.

[sleepyjohn]

Before I download 40meg........I'm not sure of the the use of a dictionary without comprehensive examples.......and although the English Macdic is somewhat exampled I'm presuming by the snippet that this doesn't have them....is that so?

Do sometimes use

http://www.thai-language.com/dict/

which I found here and for an online dic is very worthwhile having.

John

[Ratsima]

The dictionary in the OP is useful mainly because it integrates with the OS/X dictionary system. You can highlight a word, right click and select "Look up in Dictionary" and the dictionary application will open with the selected word shown. You can then select from any of the installed dictionaries. You can also highlight a word and press [Control-Command-D) and a mini-dictionary entry will appear right below the selected word. For more illustration, see the MacDD article:

Mac Thai Dictionary

(I hope that URL stays good....)

[Shotime]

Quick question. Do you need to buy the new Leopard 10.5 to use this?

[Ratsima]

^From the download page in the OP:

System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

Dictionary 2.0

[Shotime]

^From the download page in the OP:

System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

Dictionary 2.0

Thanks for telling me something I already knew. The OP said (free). I must have forgot the first thing I was taught as a child, nothing is free. My lapse, sorry. $129?! As my kid would say "that's how they <deleted>> you."

[Ratsima]

^I guess you can always go back to using a quill pen and a sheet of parchment paper.

The world moves one. Innovations are made. You can either move with it or stick with what you've got. You have to expect that software authors are going to write code that takes advantage of recent advancement and innovation.

Are you also disappointed that Firefox won't run under CP/M?