Dictionary Status as of

December, 2006

[The colour of these partial screen captures is due to the colour scheme of the test computer I use; it changes depending on your operating system and the colour scheme you choose.]

The dictionaries will be updated frequently during the month; I will post this partial screen capture from MLD Dictionary Server, shown at right, at the beginning of each month. It shows the dictionaries with flags or icons. A grey colour means the dictionary is not yet available, but is supported (meaning that the software can handle it). A coloured flag or icon means the dictionary is available and the word count is then shown to the right.

In order from top to bottom, the Primary Languages are: Burmese, Chong, Isaan Lao, Khmer, Lao, Thai. The Secondary Languages are: Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

The numbers under the Dictionary tab are word counts. The numbers under the Index tab are index entries. Because one Thai word, for example, can have several English words as a meaning, the index count is generally larger than the word count for any European language.

In order from top to bottom, the Primary Language Indexes are: picture, sound, grammar note, CD-ROM flag, subject, word type; there is a set of indexes for each primary language; Thai is shown. The Secondary Language Indexes are: Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

The smaller image at the far right shows the Isaan Lao indexes. You can see that there are now more than 1500 sound recordings.

I can add other European languages easily, if your favourite language is not listed. However, populating the dictionary with words is a problem, unless you are willing to donate some time. If you are willing to do that, I will give you a password that unlocks the protected files on this site, making Speak Easy Thai much more usable.

If you have dictionary update rights, then your changes will be uploaded to the web server when you next run the Web Update program. The updates will be processed, then made available to other people for automatic download via the Web Update program. The Speak Easy language learning program pulls words from the specified dictionaries, and will use your preferred language instead of English, if possible. So the more words in the European language dictionary, the better Speak Easy works.