A good dictionary is the world’s best teacher, actually.

  These days I have to look up my OALD thousands of times. Every time when I use it, I can feel I benefit a bit more. “Being a dictionary writer turned out, after all, to be very similar in many ways to being a teacher.” And the teachers offer all that they know to us learners as a very valuable source.

  The key point of learning is comprehension——understanding every word, sentence and passage and then infer what the authors want to express. First we understand the language and then we make use of it in our own speaking or writing. During the long and endless process, dictionaries do a great help.

  That’s why when I have questions, most of the time I can find the answers in the dictionaries.