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- RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNER v2
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE
- RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNER PROGRAM
- VERSION 2
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- With this program you can use your computer to study Russian
- vocabulary words, idioms and phrases from any textbook, study guide,
- story, newspaper or article. If you are studying from a textbook
- you can make a separate file for each chapter. You can enter all
- of the different verb forms, regular and irregular. You can enter
- idioms and other expressions.
-
- SHAREWARE
-
- This program is not free. It is shareware. This means that you
- may try it out before you decide whether or not to buy it. After
- you have tried it out, if you intend to keep using it you must
- register it by sending $14.95 plus $1.75 for postage and supplies
- to
- Cragmont Services Ltd.
- 1171 Cragmont Ave.
- Berkeley, CA 94708
-
- When you register you will receive the fully functional version,
- as well as a game you have not played before.
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- You may give the program to as many people as you wish. When you
- do so you must transfer all the files on the disk or in the .ZIP
- file. Each user must send in the fee unless he or she is a member
- of the same household or family as someone who has registered.
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- You can pay by check or use Visa or Mastercard. Use the form
- called REGISTER.DOC, which you can print from the Runme program,
- or send me the information in a letter. If charging, be sure to
- include amount, card number, expiration date and signature.
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- I receive no other income from my programming. Equipment costs,
- supplies, mailings and BBS upload time are all paid out of my
- pocket. Therefore, if you use and enjoy the program, please send
- the registration fee.
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- INSTALLATION
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- You can run the program from a floppy disk or copy it to a
- hard disk if you have one. The files created and used by program
- must be in the same directory or on the same floppy disk as the
- program. These files have a ".rus" suffix in their name.
- .
- If your floppy gets full you can either delete files or copy
- the program files to a new floppy and continue to make new data
- files.
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- Under normal circumstances, you will make data files before
- you use the test option. However, everyone is usually
- interested in seeing how the test option works first, so I
- have included vocabulary files made with the program so
- that you can immediately see how the test option works if you
- want to and what kind of files you can create.
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- For the following instructions, type the word or symbol between
- the "< >" marks, but not the "< >" symbols.
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- If you have only a floppy drive, insert the disk into it. Type
- <RunmeR> or <Russian2> and press <Enter>.
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- If you have a hard drive you should use it for the program as
- it loads much faster from a hard drive. If you have this program
- on a floppy disk, insert the disk into the floppy disk drive.
- At the DOS prompt type <MD\Russian>. Then type <CD\Russian>. Then
- type <COPY [disk drive letter]:*.*>. If you downloaded the files
- from a BBS, you have already unzipped them and you are now ready
- to follow the instructions below.
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- THE UTILITIES
-
- The program is very straight forward. To start it choose
- option <3> from the RUNME menu or by typing <Russian2> at the
- DOS prompt and pressing <Enter>. You will see the title
- page. Press <Enter> for the next menu.
-
- If you select option <2> from the next menu you will see the
- maintenance utilities. Using these utilities you can create,
- change, add to, print and look at files of the words and phrases
- on which you will test yourself. In the unregistered version of
- this program, the add to option is disabled and the option for
- creating a file limits the file to 10 entries.
-
- Select one of the choices. (Choice <4> is easiest.) You will
- then be asked for a file name. No matter which choice you
- selected you can call up a directory of the Russian vocabulary
- files. You only have to type in the name, without typing the suffix.
-
- If you choose to create a file, using option <1>, the program
- will check if a file exists with the name of the file you
- have chosen to create. If so, you will be given the option of
- overwriting the existing file or choosing another name for
- your new file. If you choose creating or adding to an existing
- file you will be asked to type in an English word or expression.
- Do so and press <Enter>. You will then be asked for the Russian
- word or expression.
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- When it's time to enter something in Russian, a keyboard template
- will appear to show you which key to press for each character.
- The Russian keyboard is set up as phonetically as possible. For
- example, pressing the "F" key gets you the Russian letter that
- sounds like an "F".
- After typing the Russian word or expression press <Enter> again.
- You will be asked to confirm your entry. When you are finished
- with the file press <Esc>.
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- If you choose to edit a file, the computer will show you the
- current entries one by one. The bottom of the screen tells you
- what to do.
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- Your entries can be up to 32 characters long. This means that
- you can have multiple answers by separating them with a semicolon.
- When you test yourself, you have the option of having the computer
- treat your answer as correct if you type any one of the possible
- correct answers.
-
- You can distinguish English nouns from verbs one of two ways.
- Either put nouns in one file and verbs in another, or use the
- article with nouns and the infinitive form with verbs. For
- example: "to play" for the verb and "the play" for the noun.
-
- The file display option prompts you to press <Enter> if there
- is more than one page of words and expressions in a file.
-
- Pressing <Esc> one or two times always takes you to the main
- menu.
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- TESTING YOURSELF
-
- Back at the main menu choose option <1>. You will then be asked
- if you want the exact answer option or the multiple answer option.
- If you select the multiple answer option, then if there is more
- than one correct answer, the program will treat your answer as
- correct if you type any one of the correct answers. Also, with
- this option the computer will ignore punctuation, capitalization
- and spacing, even if there are not multiple possible answers.
- If you choose the exact answer option, then everything in your
- answer must be exactly what the computer has on file.
-
- Next you will be asked which file you want to be tested on.
- Type in the name but not the extension and press <Enter>.
-
- By this time you will have learned that somewhere on the screen,
- in the middle of the screen or on the bottom, you are told what
- you can do next.
-
- The next menu lets you select two different types of tests,
- multiple choice or fill in. Multiple choice lets you get
- acquainted with the vocabulary. Fill in really tests your
- knowledge of the vocabulary.
-
- The next menu lets you select the direction of the translation
- test. Your choices are obvious.
-
- Taking the test is also obvious. If you have chosen the multiple
- choice test then press the number of the answer you select. For a
- fill in test, type your answer and press <Enter>. When you have
- to fill in an answer in the foreign language you chose, the bottom
- of the screen will tell you which keys to press to print
- the Russian characters.
-
- Each time that you test yourself the entries are randomly mixed
- (and if you are taking a multiple choice test so are the answer
- choices).
-
- Pressing <Esc> always takes you to the next previous menu. You
- can change the type of test or the direction of translation at
- any time. While you can switch back and forth, the program will
- test you on all words and phrases in both directions. When you
- are finished with all the vocabulary in one direction the program
- will change to the other direction, having told you about this
- change at the bottom of your screen.
-
- After you have finished the test, the program will take you back
- to the first test menu. You can select another file for testing,
- look at your results, or retest yourself on wrong answers. Unless
- you have a perfect score, press <2>.
-
- Either before or after you look at the results you can retest
- yourself. Of course, the retest option only tests you on the
- words and phrases that you missed. Other than that the retest
- option works just like the test option.
-
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- PRINTING THE INSTRUCTIONS
-
- If you want to print out these instructions, select option <2>
- from the RUNME menu or type the following at the DOS prompt:
-
- TYPE RUSSIAN2.DOC > PRN
-
- Then press <Enter>.
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- copyright 1993, 1995 by
- Arthur Wells, Jr.
- 1171 Cragmont Ave.
- Berkeley, CA 94708
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