Guides: International Business: Finding Foreign Language Resources

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Foreign Language and Culture Guides

Foreign Language Dictionaries

Spanish

Collins Spanish - English Dictionaries
Unabridged Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary. Wide-ranging coverage of contemporary Spanish and English, and a wealth of examples and idioms.
Diccionario de la lengua espanola
From the Real Academia Espanola

Collins Spanish Dictionary
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2009
The Oxford Spanish Business Dictionary by Sinda Lopez (Editor); Donald Watt (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2002

Portuguese

Cambridge Portuguese–English Dictionary
Infopedia - Portuguese dictionary
One of the biggest multimedia repositories of online monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.
Dicio, Dicionário Online de Português
Dictionary developed by a team of Brazilian computer scientists and linguists. Features Portuguese definitions and gives meanings of 400,000 words from A to Z.

Portuguese by Sheila R. Ackerlind; Rebecca Jones-Kellogg
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2011
A guide for those interested in learning the Portuguese language and mastering its complexities. It supplements the phonetic and grammatical explanations offered in basic textbooks. Focuses on Brazilian Portuguese, but incorporates European Portuguese variants as well.
Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar by John Whitlam
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2010
Combines traditional and function-based grammar. The book is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is organized around language functions covering all major communication situations such as: establishing identity making contact expressing likes, dislikes and preferences.

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