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October 11, 2011
04:45

NKellyEmerald

Dublin, Ireland

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Having problems actually getting dictionaries to work… have set up Spanish in my account and tried adding Wordreference as the URL (specifically: http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=####) but for some reason all I ever get in that frame when reading a text is a blank frame or a 404. What am I doing wrong here? I've tried several URL variants for Wordreference and can't get a single one to work.

Also, considering Benny managed to get http://www.irishdictionary.ie to work for his, I thought I'd try that. No such luck for me… Help, anyone?

Native:

Gaeilge,

English Studies:

Polish On Hold:

Spanish Next:

Italian
Is cainteoir dúchais Gaeilge mé. Same with English. Zacząłem uczyć się polskiego, y ahora, he dejado aprender el castellano.

October 11, 2011
04:51

NKellyEmerald

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Love how I always seem figure these things out AFTER I ask about it prematurely…

Still can't figure out Irishdictionary.ie though…

Native:

Gaeilge,

English Studies:

Polish On Hold:

Spanish Next:

Italian
Is cainteoir dúchais Gaeilge mé. Same with English. Zacząłem uczyć się polskiego, y ahora, he dejado aprender el castellano.

October 11, 2011
05:26

Chrystal G.

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Lol. Sometimes it helps to "talk" it out!

Native: English Learning: German (active), Polish (active, secondary)

October 11, 2011
05:51

gaillimh

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NKellyEmerald said:

Still can't figure out Irishdictionary.ie though…

Irish Dictionary
http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary?language=irish&toLanguage=english&word=###

Focal.ie
http://www.focal.ie/Search.aspx?term=###

Pota Focal
http://www.potafocal.com/Search.aspx?Text=###

Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/#ga|en|###

October 11, 2011
19:41

NKellyEmerald

Dublin, Ireland

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Go raibh maith agat, a Ghallimh! Don't plan on using it for Irish very much but I think it may come in useful now and again.

Native:

Gaeilge,

English Studies:

Polish On Hold:

Spanish Next:

Italian
Is cainteoir dúchais Gaeilge mé. Same with English. Zacząłem uczyć się polskiego, y ahora, he dejado aprender el castellano.

January 6, 2012
18:21

tubbycricket

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It would have been nice if you had included your solution after you had found out; you can imagine one's frustration when one finds the problem, but the person did not bother to let everyone else know how it was done.

January 6, 2012
18:36

tubbycricket

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Okay, I figured it out after a little bit of examination, but to save everyone else's time from this annoying little detail, I have provided the exact URI below:

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=###

Apparently, three of these (#) is the variable that sends the chosen word into the URL. I haven't come across that in the documentation, strange…

I hope this post will help out people who are here to learn a language, but are not as technically inclined.

January 6, 2012
21:44

tubbycricket

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My bad, it was in the documentation, but I only found it after getting used to the entire interface beforehand which took me a couple of hours.

I am a big proponent of finding things out yourself in any way possible, but to reach a larger audience, it has to be a little easier to find important information. Think of something like Apple products, I would never use one myself, but I understand why so many people flock to it; it was designed so even the stupidest of people could use it with ease.

January 7, 2012
00:35