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VNEDICT files (15 February 2019, 55,483 entires)
The purpose of the VNEDICT project is to create an electronic Vietnamese-English dictionary in the form of a single Unicode (UTF8) text file with the following general format :
"Vietnamese : English"
(i.e. Vietnamese entry, space, colon, space, English definition - one entry per line). Semicolons are used to separate both different parts of speech and multiple defintions (homonyms). This simple formatting is designed to facilitate the integration of VNDICT into other applications (which is highly encouraged).
History : Shorly after I started the CEDICT (Chinese-English Dictionary) project in the late 1990s, I decided to do something similar for Vietnamese. One of the biggest challenges facing an English-speaker learning Vietnamese is the lack of good dictionaries. Many Vietnamese-English dictionaries contain definitions in very dated or non-standard English, and to the best of my knowledge there is no Vietnamese-English dictionary which has a native English speaker as its editor. Furthermore, one often has to consult multiple dictionaries to find even relatively common words, and definitions vary widely between print dictionaries. Many of these dictionary entries lack context or examples, making it difficult to know precisely how a word is used. These problems are also found in most modern "electronic" dictionaries accessible via the web or as applications (iOS/Android), in part because almost all of them seem to draw their vocabulary from the same sources. The ongoing goal of the VNEDICT project is therefore to produce a comprehensive, high-quality Vietnamese-English dictionary with translations in modern, idiomatic (American) English.
In response to this and in order to encourage its use and development, VNEDICT (Vietnamese-English Dictionary) by Paul Denisowski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. What this means is that anyone can use, transmit, or modify VNEDICT for any purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as the source is properly attributed (just include a note indicating where the dictionary data came from and a link to this page).
Please keep in mind that the dictionary is still VERY much under development and is being updated regularly. I had originally considered waiting until the dictionary was in a more "finished" state before making it available, but I feel the dictionary can add value in its present state.
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