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- Subject: Audio Gallery - Foreign Language Software
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 15:20:14 GMT
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- AUDIO GALLERY - Educational Software
- (See descriptions below)
-
- Available Languages:
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- ("CD Version" is one CD + one 3 1/2" disk)
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- Korean $39 8 Disks or CD (Hangul characters)
- Japanese $39 7 Disks or CD (Kana + Kanji)
- Chinese $39 7 Disks or CD (Traditional Characters)
- Russian $39 8 Disks or CD (Cyrillic Characters)
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- Spanish $29 7 Disks or CD
- German $29 7 Disks or CD
- French $29 8 Disks or CD
- English-R* $29 8 Disks or CD
- English-O* $39 8 Disks or CD
- Italian $29 8 Disks or CD
- Portuguese $29 8 Disks (No CD Version)
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- * The English-Romance version speaks in English and shows
- translations in Spanish, German or French. The English-Oriental
- version speaks in English and shows translations in Japanese
- or Chinese.
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- These programs originally sold for $89.95 to $129.95
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- Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money refunded.
-
- Call Jim at (703)-758-8478 or 1-800-GO-WORDS if you want
- one of these, or for more info. Visa, MC, Amex, Discover.
-
- or send email to fairbrothers@smart.net
-
- or send check or M/O to
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- Fairbrothers
- 2201 Cocquina Drive
- Reston, VA 22091
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- Shipping is free for the CD version. If you want the diskette
- version, and/or if you want the grammar manual, add $5. Add
- $5 for COD or Canadian address. Overseas add $12 shipping.
-
- The grammar manuals are all off the shelf reference books by 3rd
- parties, such as Dover publications, except for the Spanish and
- Chinese manuals. The Spanish manual is keyed to the program, about
- 70 pages, and is a good introduction to Spanish grammar. The
- Chinese manual is also keyed to the program, about 140 pages,
- and introduces everything you would get in 1-2 years of study.
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- Product Versions: Version 1.0
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- AMIGA Requirements: 1MB RAM (most languages will run on 512 KB),
- AmigaDOS 1.3.
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- Description:
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- Available on CD-ROM or Diskette, AUDIO GALLERY is a talking picture
- dictionary, a good introduction to learning a foreign language, and a
- vocabulary builder. Audio Gallery uses the "Duden" method of teaching
- native language that has been used for several decades in Germany and
- Japan. The "Duden", or picture dictionary, lays a good learning
- foundation for schoolchildren.
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- Audio Gallery can be used by anyone who can click and move the mouse,
- look at and understand pictures, and hear the computer talk.
- Older students can also learn the alphabet or characters of the
- foreign language.
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- Audio Gallery features digitized speech by native speakers.
- Spanish is done by a native Bolivian, Chinese is the Mandarin
- dialect (Taiwanese accent), French is Parisian-accented.
- English is by a Virginia native.
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- Audio Gallery includes about thirty colorful, everyday scenes.
- Each scene includes about thirty key words - numbered objects
- in the Scene. Click on the object to hear its pronunciation and
- see the written form in both English and the foreign language.
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- Scenes include: Weather, Supermarket, Basic Expressions, Numbers,
- Clothes, Living Room, Restaurant, Around the Town, etc.
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- For reference, Audio Gallery includes an on-line dictionary;
- quizzes test your progress. With the Diskette version,
- a grammar manual is included, and for Chinese and Spanish,
- a workbook.
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