When you're learning a language, you're supposed to use one of their own dictionaries, not a cross-language one. The first good one I had was the Petite Larousse. It's part of the 'total immersion' theory: eat, drink, and f√©∆ in the target language. Of course one of the effects of this method is that you don't always understand. Isn't that a metaphor for life? I want my epitaph to read "He didn't always understand." Eventually I learned the Larousses aren't any good for any language besides French. My favorite English dictionary is the American Heritage (unabridged). I like it because it has etymology. Webster's Collegiate is caca. The times that I was in jail I would serve as a sort of ambulating dictionary. I would write letters for the Paísas to their girlfriends. I frequently found that my definitions were better than Webster's. This once led to a fight. Chinese dictionaries are a trip. There is no alphabet and there are no letters but their is an order nevertheless to the graphic depiction of a Chinese character. To look one up, first you determine to which amongst a corpus of some three hundred 'radicals' your character belongs. Radicals are things like 'tree', 'metal', 'water', 'fish', 'man'. All of you will have seen the sushi menu. If you look closely the left part of all those fish characters is the same. That element is in fact the primordial fish, though it's been formalized since the time of Qin Shi Huangdi into a rectangular shape so it may not much look like it. Yes, Ace, I'm aware that sushi is Japanese; I'm trying to simplify for your rice kernel of a brain. Having identified the character's tutelary radical, which gives some vague sense of it's meaning, you go to the section of the dictionary that has all the characters with that radical. Next you count the number of strokes (brush strokes) in the part of the character that doesn't include the radical, and go to the section of the dictionary under the radical containing all the other characters with that same number of brush strokes. Then you go through that list looking for the one you want.
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"How many boyfriends have asked this before?
"You're the only boyfriend asking me.
(Holding The Man)
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