Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

I was born and brought up in a purely Assamese society and so we rarely get to hear someone speaking english. If somehow we get a chance, we consider him very knowledgeable. We the friends shared a joke and the joke goes like this........ First Friend: I am lucky not to born in England. Second Friend: Why? First Friend: I don't know how to speak english. The days are gone and when I first admitted to a boarding school, my father handed me with an Anglo-Assamese dictionary. The book which helped me to learn english. It was abit difficult to find out meanings unless first I get to know the ... more

By the early stages of learning a foreign language, certainly a good bilingual dictionary is required very much. When we have reached a point at which we think that we need a better dictionary, having a monolingual dictionary should be considered. Based on the fact and seeing various monolingual English dictionaries are available in markets, I am interested in introducing Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) to foreign learners in brief. The main function of a dictionary is to tell its reader about the meaning of a word. OALD does not only tell us the meaning of a word, but also teaches ... more

I am a student of First Certificate English Course. I have been learning English for quite long time but never be able to express my thoughts and feelings STILL.At first i bought a pocket dictionary to check difficult meanings it was helpful but i must say i got mixed up some times. For a learner its important to know how to use the word the in the way he wants to use and particullarly the pronounceation .For those who have good command of English can portrays their every thought and feelings easliy because they know the word place in sentence. For me its quite hard, i needed to know how to ... more

Let me tell you a short story. I was walking down the street with my brother looking for a traveling circus (this particular one was famous for having the world's tallest midget "Hey look he is as tall as you" my brother would cry whenever he saw this freak of nature). But anyway we were walking and talking about the new edition to the circus, the worlds smallest giant, when suddenly we stumbled into a local WH smiths store. Suddenly then a thought hit me "I need a new book" i said to my brother "I've finished the last one" so up we went to the book section and in minutes we had selected a ... more