Languages and Area Studies - Suggested Reference Works

Collins Dictionaries
freely available high quality dictionaries in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish with translations into other languages also provided. Audio files give the pronounciation for every word listed.
Credo Reference
a high quality alternative to Wikipedia – also containing language dictionaries - which even shows you how to reference items found
Larousse website
free online encyclopedia from a major French publisher. The site also has access to bilingual dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary Online
WordReference.com
Online Language Dictionaries

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Language books can be found on the Second Floor in the University Library in the 400s but books for different aspects of your course will be found in other parts of the Second Floor as well as the First Floor.

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