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I think how the dictionary can help its users best depends on a lot of things mentioned in the journal. One of the things is that you can look up a word in a dictionary and understand how to use it in a sentence by looking the examples provided in the dictionary. This reminded me that it is better to be in an English-speaking country to fully understand how to use a word than just to learn the word by its Chinese translation in your own country. Of course you can still learn English well in your own country, but we can not deny the fact that you will have more chances to be exposed to the correct ways of using the right word by everyday conversations with native speakers and the whole English environment. Though it depends on people’s attitude, the fact is that we are more likely to misunderstand an English word by learning its Chinese translation in your own country.
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According to your annotation, you mention that the attitude is the key point to learn a language. I think this argument is reasonable, but it is not stong enough to convince the readers that we don't have to go abroad to learn English. If you want to make your arguments stong enough, you can read some acdemic research paper. Besides, you can interview some exchange students in our school.
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