Question of Vocabulary

[jim10040]

If a person is well familiar with AutoCAD, but NOT great at the english language, What Happens Next? What sort of technical dictionary can that person find...Amazon is not a lot of help, believe it or not...and any number of local bookstores are even less help. Where can I find a technical english dictionary? Something that will translate into english terms but simpler? The local college bookstore is not help, either.

[Helenka]

I have the same problem with english ;)
If you have some expirience in the field where are you going to work, you can try to check Handbooks for designers/engineers from your field. In that books you can find terms and pictures which you are familiar with. It's like a technical pictures dictionary. Also you can find a books "Interpreting Enginering Drawings" they wolud be useful too.

[ASMI]

I also have very poor English and use Abbyy Lingvo. You can to mark word or idiom in any Windows application, press Ctr+CC and get translation. There are many special dictionaries as Universal, Polytechnical, Medicine, Computer etc. Look http://www.abbyy.com/lingvo/ .

[Strix]

the german students on my engineering degree had technical dictionaries for translating between the two - I'd have thought they wouldn't be that difficult to find

isn't there an online translator that could cope with the technical terms?

[ASMI]

>Strix

This dictionary contains next dictionaries: http://www.abbyy.com/lingvo/dictionaries.asp?lang=english . I thik it's enough :D