How To Use A Dictionary Like The Most Succesful Language Learners

No language learner should be far from a dictionary, ever. These days it's very tempting to look everything up in Google Translate, but with a few of the following choices you'll be way ahead.

What Makes a Great Dictionary?

Dictionaries come in all shapes and sizes. You can buy a tiny pocket book I took to Sweden this summer, to a 3 volume edition for your parents' bookshelf. Some come with grammar guides, others come with phrasebooks.

And of course, paper is pretty 20th century these days so...