New English-German Duden Dictionary Released

Lernen Sie Deutsch? Ein neues Wörterbuch für Ihre mobilen Geräte ist verfügbar. Paragon Software and Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH have released a new English-German dictionary collection for mobile devices. Powered by the SlovoEd dictionary engine the software is available for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and other platforms.

The Duden-Oxford English-German dictionary is an up-to-date dictionary of modern English and German designed for journalists, editors, students, interpreters, and translators, as well as for everyone else, who wants to write or speak neatly and stylistically correctly.

The mobile version of the Duden - German Spelling dictionary corresponds to 24th edition of the basic work "Duden – Die deutsche Rechtschreibung" with 130,000 keywords, more than 500,000 illustrative examples, meanings, pronunciations, grammar references, words’ etymology and style. Duden – German dictionary of foreign words contains more than 55,000 foreign words and technical terms and provides overall information about loan-words in German contemporary language. The Duden – German dictionary contains 300,000 synonyms for more than 20,000 most frequently used German words. Duden – German explanatory dictionary contains 150,000 words and phrases with pronunciation samples, more than 500,000 meanings and usage examples.

The new dictionary line also features word sound samples produced in the cooperation with ARD. It was produced by the most important German Television and Broadcast Company whose audio database is the reference for all news readers. In addition these audios are verified most thoroughly by the Duden editors of the following works: Duden – Die deutsche Rechtschreibung, Duden – Das Fremdwörterbuch and Duden – Deutsches Universalwörterbuch.

"For the years of our development activity the most authoritative and famous reference products from distinguished linguistic companies were gathered in SlovoEd dictionary line. Today we are happy to enrich our line with the comprehensive resource of contemporary German from Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH that provides the superior experience for our German-speaking and German-learning customers," said Jeanne Kolesnik, Business Development Director, Epocware and Smart Handheld Devices divisions, Paragon Software Group. "From our side we guarantee that Duden word bases will be ideally complemented with Paragon's technologies of new generation."

The Duden-Oxford English-German dictionary v6.09 is available now for $49.95 USD. A free trial version is included.

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