Can I read Websters Corsican - English Thesaurus Dictionary on EtoBox?

Websters Corsican - English Thesaurus Dictionary by Philip M. Parker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Websters Corsican - English Thesaurus Dictionary about?

If you are learning Corsican, this book was not created for you, and you should not purchase it. It was created for completely fluent mother-tongue speakers of Corsican who already know the full meaning of Corsican words, but who need to learn how a single English translation of a Corsican word may have ambiguous meanings in the English language. It is designed for bi-lingual education for the non-English reader who wants to improve English-language test scores covering English synonyms. Synonyms may bear no relationship to a translation word (e.g. “love” can signify both an emotion and a score of zero in tennis; zero, while being a synonym of love, is likely to be a bad translation to the original Corsican headword). This is a regular English thesaurus, like Roget’s, but the entries are sorted alphabetically using headwords from Corsican. It cannot be used to translate between the two languages, but may help a fluent speaker of Corsican who is learning basic English, to learn the ambiguities of the English language and its vocabulary. The synonyms for each headword are not translations; Corsican words are used to facilitate “looking up” English synonyms. Prior to purchase, educ

Who reads Websters Corsican - English Thesaurus Dictionary?

Author

Philip M. Parker

Publisher

Icon Group International, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780497834746

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language