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Thread poster: Erika Addessi (X)
Erika Addessi (X)
Erika Addessi (X)
Australia
Local time: 01:54
English to Italian
Feb 24, 2019

I am due to sit my NAATI certified translator test in a few days and I'm trying to work out what kind of dictionary I should bring along. I'll be translating from English into Italian. I normally use online dictionaries.

Test instructions state the following:

You may bring and use resources during the test. Permittable resources are dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri. These resources can be:
• commercially available products and self-developed materials
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I am due to sit my NAATI certified translator test in a few days and I'm trying to work out what kind of dictionary I should bring along. I'll be translating from English into Italian. I normally use online dictionaries.

Test instructions state the following:

You may bring and use resources during the test. Permittable resources are dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri. These resources can be:
• commercially available products and self-developed materials
• hard copies, standalone electronic dictionaries and/or offline electronic resources. You
must download electronic resources onto your device prior to the test. You can only access electronic resources on the laptop or tablet on which you complete your translation test, and you must access them from the desktop or home screen.


I tried looking for a downloadable EN-IT dictionary for my Mac but I can't find one anywhere... and I am panicking

I don't have a hard copy dictionary.

Does anyone know of a good downloadable EN-IT dictionary available online? I don't mind paying for one.

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Tony M
Tony M
France
Local time: 17:54
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French to English
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CD-ROM? Feb 24, 2019

I don't know about IT, but in FR EN, I use the Robert & Collins dictionary on CD-ROM — which can if you prefer be wholly installed on your device.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't an equivalent in IT. Indeed, it might well be available to download.

I suspect that mainstream 'online' dictionaries may well not be downloadable, either for copyright reasons, or simply because of the data formats they use.
 
IrinaN
IrinaN
United States
Local time: 10:54
English to Russian
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Buy a hard copy? Feb 24, 2019

If you don't mind paying.
 
DZiW (X)
DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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App Store? Feb 24, 2019

Hello Erika--Did you check Mac App Store?

At office I successfully used Lingvo for Mac with some 100+ official and custom dictionaries. Even considering there're always room for nitpicking, it was pretty ok for several big and specialized projects. However, I can't comment on Italian.

In the case of "emergency", why not Plan B--a light-weigh Microsoft ultrabooks or even a tablet?

Good luck)
 
Milan Condak
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Local time: 17:54
English to Czech
Microsoft, IATE and other plus presentation Feb 26, 2019

Erika Addessi wrote:

I tried looking for a downloadable EN-IT dictionary for my Mac but I can't find one anywhere...



I use in OmegaT files of Microsoft TermCollection in TBX format and IATE in TXT format (TBX is too big for my Windows machine).

1. Microsoft TermCollection

https://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Terminology.aspx

or

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/Terminology

2. IATE

https://iate.europa.eu/download-iate

ZIP file and JAR for extration

info: Italian , 559978 Terms. EN-IT pair has 400365 entries.

After extraction of TBX I create TMX (with Xbench) and TXT (with TMLookup).

(You can buy it ready from this, not my, URL:

https://santrans.net/)

3. https://www.dicts.info/uddl.php

https://www.dicts.info/offline2.php

https://www.dicts.info/

I use "SDA" = Simple dictionary applications for TXT files.

Other applications: for TBX I use Virtaal or Goldpan Editor.

Dictionary StarDict can be used in OmegaT, StarDict Dictionary, GoldenDict, Valodas.
On web is plenty of dictionaries in various formats.

Milan
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I created a presentation with three animation (a translation of 19 segments in OmegaT) and my standard screenshots.

http://www.condak.cz/nove/2019-02/26/en/00.html

The downloadable dictionary/glossary

A downloadable EN-IT glossary

01 A downloadable EN-IT dictionary (animation)
02 Search in Virtaal
03 IATE
04 IATE glossary (animation)
05 Dics plain text "dictionary" (animation)
06 Simple Dictionary Applications
07 Glossary from PDF



[Edited at 2019-02-26 22:55 GMT]
 
Erika Addessi (X)
Erika Addessi (X)
Australia
Local time: 01:54
English to Italian
TOPIC STARTER
Thank you Feb 28, 2019

Thank you so much everyone.

In the end, I borrowed a couple of dictionaries from my local library and I also found that my Mac has an in-built dictionary of which I was not aware.

Sophie Meis
 


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