HOW TO INSTALL ADDITIONAL DICTIONARIES
The packages should be unpacked to any folder (warning: this folder cannot be moved or deleted later, I recommend unpacking to C:\Program Files\ABBYY Lingvo 12\Dictionaries), then, in Lingvo, select:
•	in Lingvo 12: Tools/Add Dictionary...
•	in Lingvo x3: Tools/Add Dictionary from File...
Then go to the folder where the additional dictionaries have been unpacked, then to the /2/ folder and select:
•	in Lingvo 12: all files, except the ones with _abrv in the name, which are abbreviations dictionaries that shouldn't be installed separately
•	in Lingvo x3: all files (abbreviations dictionaries won't be installed because the program prevents that).
Then repeat it for the files from folder /1/, but be careful: one-language dictionaries (like EN-EN etc.) by default are being plugged to all translation directions from the original language (that is, EN-EN dictionary will be seen as EN-EN, EN-RU, EN-UK etc.). To change it, you should select:
•	in Lingvo 12: Tools/Languages and Dictionaries/Dictionary Groups
•	in Lingvo x3: Tools/Language and Dictionary Settings/Bookshelves.
Then check all bilingual pairs in turn (e.g. English - Russian), in the Selected dictionaries (Lingvo 12) or Dictionaries on this bookshelf (Lingvo x3) dialog box check all one-language dictionaries (hint: they with be groupped at the end of the list - in this particular dialog box all dictionaries are shown according to the order of adding them to the program) and press <<. Along with that, also all one-language dictionaries that were provided with the program should be selected. These are:
•	in Lingvo 12:
•	CH-CH: Phonetic List
•	EN-EN: Collins
•	RU-RU: Explanatory, Popular, LingvoThesaurus
•	UK-UK: Explanatory.
There are alternative methods of fighting with improper plugging of one-language dictionaries - see: Sozdaem slovar v Lingvo_v3.1.pdf - page 64 (in Russian).
After completing installation of the dictionaries, in Lingvo 12 select Tools/Languages and Dictionaries..., and then Update Index... Lingvo x3 will ask to index the dictionaries each time you install additional ones. You don't have to do it then - you can do it when you install of the dictionaries you wish to add. Caution! Indexing requires a few gigabytes of free space on the system partition and even a few hours of computer's work.