Longman Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus Paper with online: Industrial Ecology

I truly love studying and collecting collocations. Also, I love dictionaries which show how to use them and am always ready and willing to buy a new dictionary which provides more examples of words that occur and work together. In the first place, I need to say that the LCDAT, truly excellent though it is, is not (nor is it intended to be) a fully comprehensive dictionary and its list of entries is not exhaustive. The dictionary is really great and beautiful (let me repeat, great and beautiful!) , and the idea of adding a thesaurus - absolutely marvellous! Yet, I cannot help thinking that it does have a few imperfections which could be very easily removed, corrected or remedied. I think that the most vexatious problem is the conspicuous absence of cross-references to ALL the words contained or included in the dictionary, which would be extremely useful to intended or potential recipients of the dictionary, namely intermediate, upper-intermediate and (almost) advanced learners. To put some substance behind my words, the book contains exquisitely selected numerous examples of collocates (which is absolutely wonderful), yet not sufficiently numerous to satisfy a regular lover of and hunter for collocations. I was somewhat dispirited to find out that quite often only some (not necessarily common) collocates were provided whereas in other cases the collocate was not referenced. For example, under "situation" you will learn that you could "exacerbate" it. But if you want to know what else you can "exacerbate", you will be disappointed as there is no such entry in this dictionary. You could try to reject my argument by saying: You yourself said that it was not supposed to be exhaustive. Yes, the list is not complete or exhaustive, sure enough, it is not to be, but the words that have been so meticulously selected and exemplified as the typical English speaker's vocabulary should be handled more carefully and properly. Of course, it is too late to change the paper version of the dictionary. But I think it is still possible to provide all these kind of collocates and references in the online version at http://collocations.longmandictionariesonline.com/lcdt/collocations. I therefore think the online version of the dictionary should be systematically expanded and regularly updated so that a diligent student of collocations may be able to learn all the words contained in the dictionary with their possible collocations. This would be tremendously helpful and useful and exceedingly persuasive to those who might like to renew their subscription once the current one has expired.

It was delivered to me in good condition.

slightly dissapointed -needs to be expanded to include more entries and more collocations! The oxford rival beats it! waiting for futute editions.

Well, I thought I'm an intermediate user of English...but after I had bought this dictionary, I changed my mind. Too few terms, big letters, a lot of space - but too little knowledge! Collocations are so obvious. I feel really disappointed, I'm going to buy something else, maybe the Oxford's one.

I think the best collocations dictionary.

Excelente diccionario de colocaciones y tesauro, la primera vez que colocaciones y tesauro aparecen combinados. Esta obra de Longman es de enorme importancia en la enseñanza de la lengua inglesa, sobre todo para estudiantes de nivel intermedio que deseen alcanzar un nivel avanzado o nativo. ¿ Por qué es importante aprender colocaciones? En el discurso de cualquier hablante nativo siempre están presentes este tipo de frases en mayor o menor número, ya que son parte integrante de cualquier idioma. Por ello, un estudiante de inglés que decide aprender colocaciones como “make money” y “earn money” (ganar dinero) tiene menos probabilidades de equivocarse utilizando la frase “win money” (ganar dinero - pero en juegos de azar o competiciones) cuando el estudiante en realidad se refiere a ganar dinero trabajando. Otro ejemplo para ilustrar este aspecto es el de “fuertes lluvias” en español. Cualquier estudiante que recurra a la traducción entre las dos lenguas producirá la forma incorrecta “strong rains” en inglés, cuando en realidad la frase correcta es “heavy rain”. Longman Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus incluye 70,000 colocaciones que ayudan al estudiante a expresarse de forma correcta y natural en la lengua hablada y escrita. El tesauro, por su parte, le permite aumentar su vocabulario de aquellas palabras y frases con significados similares, cada una con sus correspondientes colocaciones. El afán pedagógico de Longman siempre está presente en sus obras, de ahí la presencia de cientos de notas y explicaciones para muchas de las colocaciones a lo largo del libro. Por ejemplo, siguiendo con la palabra “rain”, otra de las colocaciones recogidas en el diccionario es “driving rain”. No sólo aparece dicha colocación en el diccionario sino que además Longman proporciona una explicación entre paréntesis para asegurar que el estudiante comprende la frase. En este caso la lluvia se refiere a “heavy rain that is being blown by the wind” seguida de su correspondiente ejemplo. Para concluir, si bien este diccionaro no incluye tantas colocaciones como el Oxford Collocations Dictionary, desde mi punto de vista como profesor y autor lo considero mucho más útil para estudiantes de inglés gracias a: 1) Miles de colocaciones frecuentes 2) Ejemplos para todas las colocaciones 3) Tesauro integrado 4) Notas y explicaciones para un uso correcto. Totalmente recomendable.

C'était pour ma petite fille qui est à Madagascar, et elle en est satisfaite! Ainsi, j'ai tenu compte de sa satisfaction car moi-même je ne connais rien en anglais! Mais c'était pour aider que j'ai fait cet achat.

Das Buch ist sehr übersichtlich gestaltet. Man findet sich schnell und effektiv zurecht. Die Kombination aus Thesaurus und Collocations ist einmalig. Da kann das Oxford Dictionary of Collocations nicht mithalten, sowohl was Layout, als auch Funktionalität angeht. Gerade beim Schreiben von Texten, wenn man Zeit zum Nachschlagen hat, hilft einem das Buch weiter. Wenn man wissen will, in welchem Kontext man ein Wort verwendet oder nicht, gibt es eigentlich immer einige Alternativen zur Auswahl. Sollte einmal nicht da stehen, was man im Sinn hatte, wird es vermutlich auch nicht so angewendet. Eine echte Hilfe. Für jeden Lerner oder nicht Muttersprachler eine Bereicherung. Viele Unklarheiten kann dieses Buch beseitigen und hilft bei der Wahl der richtigen Worte durch die Thesaurus/Usage Kästen! 100% Kaufempfehlung!

This review of Longman collocation dictionary is after I have studied both longman and Oxford side by side for 2 years.there are two reasons for prefering oxford overlongman.firstly it is a way behind Oxford collection dictionary because longman has very few entries and it doesn't give the much needed variety of collocates.secondly it is much too costly.