Offline language tranlator and english dictionary?

i use my laptop at school and when im in French and occasionally i need a translator but im on a fairly old laptop so i do not have wireless internet through the school so im off-line sitting at my desk most of the time.

do ny of you know of a good off-line translator from English to Canadian/ France French? also I need an English dictionary too.

thanks in advance!!!!

You could install the the dictc, dict and dict-freedict[language] packages, which serve very fine for me. I find them so good, that I often don't use the online dictionaries anymore, even where I have internet. Although I have to admit, I am not sure, they have a french(canada) dictionary. It might just be a french(french) one. But you could try it out anyway. The Enlish is both, English (British) and English(US).

eljalill said: You could install the the dictc, dict and dict-freedict[language] packages, which serve very fine for me. I find them so good, that I often don't use the online dictionaries anymore, even where I have internet.

Although I have to admit, I am not sure, they have a french(canada) dictionary. It might just be a french(french) one. But you could try it out anyway. The Enlish is both, English (British) and English(US).

French France is good, i would prefer Canadian but ill take all i can get! what about English Canadian? there are some differences between the US and Canada one too (color/colour)

eljalill said: You could install the the dictc, dict and dict-freedict[language] packages, which serve very fine for me. I find them so good, that I often don't use the online dictionaries anymore, even where I have internet.

Although I have to admit, I am not sure, they have a french(canada) dictionary. It might just be a french(french) one. But you could try it out anyway. The Enlish is both, English (British) and English(US).

may I ask, after installing these packages, how do I use them, with which programme? Gnome dictionary in Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't give me that option.

i think you then have to tell gnome dictionary to connect to the local server. maybe put localhost as the the address/hostname.

you could also try sdict http://sdictviewer.sourceforge.net/ and the dictionaries from http://sdict.com/

I always use these through the terminal. So, I type dict [word] With a word in either lanugage, and the dictionary gives me all translations to any languages it can find. I only use it to translate between two languages, so this works fine for me. I have no idea, whether the data includes Canadian vocabluary, I would have no idea, where the difference to US Enlish lies (sorry to be so ignorant). Maybe you just want to try it out?

You could also try stardict. You can load it with a plethora of dictionaries and it is very handy since you can just mark a word and see its definition (or translation in our case).