The difference between speaking and writingīy using the pioneering Longman Spoken Corpus – a collection of recordings of over 3000 American and British English speakers we are able to provide helpful information on the difference between spoken and written English.
Using the Longman Learner’s Corpus – 12 million words of students’ essays and exam scripts – we analyse typical learners’ mistakes and include notes on how to avoid them. Longman dictionaries are written specially for learners, and we make sure that they get all the help they need to avoid common mistakes.
One of the main benefits of working with the Longman Corpus Network is that we can give full coverage of thousands of natural word combinations (or collocations). When you hear a word like ‘blue’, what do you think of? Once in a blue moon? Argue until you’re blue in the face? It’s not always easy to know which words are most naturally used together. All the information in our dictionaries, including example sentences, is based on this corpus so you only see real English, as it is really used. All Longman dictionaries are compiled using the Longman Corpus Network – a huge database of 330 million words from a wide range of real-life sources such as books, newspapers and magazines.
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