Collins COBUILD Resource Pack

The Basic COBUILD CD that comes with the paper dictionary only has the following:

    * Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (4th edition published in 2003)
    * Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus

The Collins COBUILD Resource Pack has the above plus it also has the following contents on the CD (This is just a CD with no paper books.):

    * Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
    * Collins COBUILD English Grammar
    * Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms

The dictionary has easy to understand full sentence definitions with lots of examples. This makes it very easy to understand a word.

If there is a word in any reference on this CD (see the list below) you do not understand, you can double click on it and look up the definition. Once you are done looking up that word, you can go back to where you were with the touch of a button. To do this with a paper dictionary you have to flip through pages and put in page markers.

This Collins COBUILD dictionary is a talking dictionary that pronounces the words and their various forms. It even lets the user record his pronunciation and compare it with the one on the CD.

The software lets you very rapidly search the index or the text through all the books on the CD (see list below). When you can not remember a word you can search the full text for something related to the word you are looking for and find the word. This is very helpful and something you can not do with a paper dictionary.

This dictionary has a unique English grammar to help a learner of English understand how to use a word. There are entries in the help files that simply define the grammar terms used in this dictionary. Because the CD makes it easy to find the definitions of the grammar terms the dictionary becomes that much easier to use for a native or non-native speaker of English (English as a Second Language (ESL) speaker, of English).