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 Dictionaries Hello, I'm a student in Hangzhou. I have a zest for collecting all kinds of dictionaries. I want to learn what dictionaries British people use and what is the most popular. Well, we have a few dictionaries that I use. Sometimes I just use a normal learner dictionary, when I need definitions of words. Other times I use specialist dictionaries like, for example, a collocations dictionary, that’s a type of dictionary which shows which words go together.Well, I think a good learner dictionary is really important, because a learner dictionary will tell you the part of the speech, whether the word’s a noun, a verb, an adjective. It will also tell you the grammar of a word, in the sense of if it’s a verb does it have to take an object or not. It’ll tell you lots of idioms and phrasal verbs that go with a particular word, and some dictionaries will actually highlight words which are very common in English, so that you know if it’s an essential word that you have to know or whether it’s a word that you are not going to use that often.We use Collins, Collins is very well-known, I have a thesaurus that I look through, that’s also Collins, so that’s probably one of the best known ones. Obviously online dictionaries, if you’re counting those, we use those quite a lot. Not the paper form, no. I’m afraid it’s all electronic now, just type in and check it that way. If I want to look up the meaning of a word, I usually look on the internet. I’m a traditionalist, and I really like being able to study the dictionaries, and I think that if you use a very reputable publisher, that you can trust that dictionary – a paper dictionary – in a way that you can’t always trust online dictionaries.