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Children Multimedia Dictionary

—The dictionaries play an extremely important role in human life, especially in educational activities of various types. Due to the new information technologies, nowadays the modern electronic dictionaries provide much more opportunities and possess higher illustrative power than the traditional ones. A very important and specific group of dictionary users are the children. In the present paper we share our experience in designing a multilingual multimedia electronic dictionary which is supposed to help children learn their native language or languages that are not native to them. The dictionary is maximally user-friendly, the child can work with it by herself, with no help from parents, and can study a language in a more pleasant and appealing manner. The dictionary features, interface, and first prototype are presented together with discussion and analysis of some typical problems.