WordReference.com is a wonderful internet tool that offers free online translation dictionaries. It offers access to translation
dictionaries into English from Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Russian., and vice versa. All you need to do is enter the word you wish to translate from or to English and click on the search button. The definition of the word,taken from well known translation dictionaries, appears then in a new page in which the user can access the section "See also" with a list of similar words, and the section "Links" which contains other helpful tools like "Pron. Symbols", "Forums", or "Suggestions". In the word definition we can find also the forums discussions about it, which can be a great help to resolve any doubts as to the word or phrase's use and translation choices.
There is also an English Only, Spanish Only, Spanish Synonyms, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese.
Other English dictionaries include Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and, coming up, Arabic.
There are also Oxford English translation dictionaries available for free, into Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Russian.
Spanish dictionaries from Espasa Calpe and Oxford are also included, having each its own strengths, which combined with the WordReference supplement make an excellent combination. In addition to the Oxford dictionaries, WordReference has two of its own dictionaries. The French
dictionary, with over 250.000 translations, and the Italian dictionary with nearly 200.000.
For
language usage, the language forums offer a data base of hundreds of thousands questions, and the possibility to ask native speakers from around the world.
WordReference has also a number of tools for easier access to the dictionary, including plug-ins, modules and "gadgets" for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google.
WordReference is an excellent page for those who need to work with different languages, easy to use and very helpful.