To enter the Collins summer photo competition, simply email a photograph of your Collins dictionary (any size, age or shape!) with an AMAZING backdrop to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by 31st July 2012.

Be as creative as possible (show us your year abroad destination/holiday/university in the background!), don't forget to tell us where in the world you are, and include your language choice for your Collins Gem Dictionary prize (you can choose from: French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, Bangla, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Malay, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Turkish, Polish or Russian!) in case you're one of our 40 lucky winners.

Winners will be contacted in the first week of August.

The winning photos will then be uploaded to the Third Year Abroad Facebook page, and the entrant with the most 'Likes' will win an eBook reader downloaded with Collins language titles.

Good luck!

At high school, I studied French and Italian to Scottish Advanced Higher level and Spanish and German to Scottish Higher level. While studying these languages, I used mostly print format dictionaries, starting with titles from the Collins Easy Learning range and later moving onto larger print dictionaries such as the Collins Robert Complete and Unabridged French Dictionary and the Collins Complete and Unabridged Spanish Dictionary.