Grasp the Sense
Like our page? Last Updated: July 2, 2017: We've added Collins Dictionary in our dictionary list and edited parts of the post for readability. English translation released on: January 3, 2018 Target Audience: All Levels 日本語は こちら Click here for an overview of our blog. English is best understood in English. It's better if you don't translate it into another language. That way, there will be much less cognitive load on you to understand it (= your brain won't get as tired). We will show you how to ease the mental burden that comes with learning, with a monolingual dictionary and a bilingual dictionary as examples. Definitions: A monolingual dictionary explains the essential meaning of an expression by paraphrasing it in the same language (i.e. English-English dictionaries such as Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary , Japanese-Japanese dictionaries such as Kojien ). A bilingual dictionary replaces an expression in a language with a tra