English-Italian Dictionary is an English/Italian translation dictionary for Mac that combines all the necessary stuff for students learning Italian: a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary with grammatical notes; a huge phrase book containing thousands of English phrases with Italian translation, English idioms and proverbs; an exhaustive business dictionary for helping users to compose commercial letters, send emails and make phone calls in good Italian.
You can find all the entries that contain any particular English or Italian word by typing or pasting the word into the Find
What's New
Searching Google Web or Google Images for a word directly from within the application.
Improved navigation of recent found words and phrases.
New section with web links to most useful online grammatical information.
New Phrase Book with translated love phrases and romantic words of love.
Minor changes to improve compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard.
User interface improvements.
Addressed all know bugs.
Searching Google Web or Google Images for a word directly from within the application.
Improved navigation of recent found words and phrases.
New section with web links to most useful online grammatical information.
New Phrase Book with translated love phrases and romantic words of love.
Minor changes to improve compatibility with Mac OS X more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Any Macintosh, Power Mac, iBook, PowerBook, eMac, iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.2 or newer.
Seems OK for what it does, especially for idiomatic expressions, but the dictionary is missing some basic functionality. For one thing, the it fails in a basic aspect - identifying the gender of nouns in Italian, making it unreliable for using the proper article with the noun. Another thing missing is the ability to conjugate verbs as one looks them up. Forgiveable in a paper dictionary, but I think essential in electronic form. The Language Assistant series (French, German, Italian and Spanish versions) used to do this for Mac OS9, with a very small disk footprint (each language app came on ONE floppy disk). Whoever acquired the series did not translate the conjugation feature into Mac OS X, or any other OS of which I am aware.
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English-Italian Dictionary is an English/Italian translation dictionary for Mac that combines all the necessary stuff for students learning Italian: a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary with grammatical notes; a huge phrase book containing thousands of English phrases with Italian translation, English idioms and proverbs; an exhaustive business dictionary for helping users to compose commercial letters, send emails and make phone calls in good Italian.
You can find all the entries that contain any particular English or Italian word by typing or pasting the word into the Find box and pressing the Return key. The dictionary collects all the entries that match what you've entered, and displays the English and the Italian side-by-side. You can copy words from the dictionary and paste them into another document.
English-Italian Dictionary is made in a way that guide you to find just useful information and not tons of unuseful things. This is the reasons because you find on it only useful grammatical notes, useful English phrases with Italian translation, business words and phrases and lot of English Idioms and Proverbs and a Phrase Book with translated love phrases and romantic words of love.
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...oh dear. This app needs some serious polishing up to be taken seriously. :/
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