Problem with iBooks dictionary in other languages

A couple of days ago I bought the iPad Retina. When I was checking the new languages in the inner dictionary of the iBooks (v3) a message appears asking if I wanted to download dictionaries for more languages-I was checking a book in Spanish. I pressed Yes but the connection was too bad, and it couldn’t finish the downloading.

Now I am trying again and nothing happens, just the message saying that it cannot find the word, but nothing about downloading more languages. I looked online and some ppl solved the issue changing the language of the IOS to another but English, looking for a non-English word and changing back to English. I tried with every language (the ones of the new dictionaries) and nothing happens.

So... if someone can help, will be much appreciated, since I read in many languages and I would like to have more inner dictionaries.

Thank you in advance.

iPad, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 15, 2012 5:38 AM

23 replies

Nov 15, 2012 6:29 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing. Might be worth while to report the issue to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Nov 15, 2012 6:45 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Done, and thank you

ckuan

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Nov 15, 2012 7:00 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Do you have the latest iBooks version 3.0.2 (Released 2 days ago)

It supports definitions in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese with IOS 6

Tom Gewecke

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Nov 15, 2012 8:51 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Open the Notes app and type a word in one of the languages you want using the keyboard for that language, then select it and tap the Define button and see if it will download.

Buponi

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Oct 29, 2013 4:00 PM in response to Celebrimnar

To get a Spanish-Spanish dictionary, hold a word until the option bar appears and select define. A window will come up and say word not found. At the bottom of that window select manage. You will then be able to select the language dictionary to download.

Oct 29, 2013 4:23 PM in response to Buponi

You are responding to a thread that is nearly a year old. iBooks and the OS have changed since then.

Dec 6, 2014 12:03 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Hi! There is not English to russsian dictionary

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 6, 2014 4:47 AM in response to alexanderfromafula

alexanderfromafula wrote:

Hi! There is not English to russsian dictionary

To ask Apple to add a new feature, go to

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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