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ED-04: Languages
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#3344 Miscellaneous Languages Small Programs Disk
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French Verb Quizzler (FVERBSW)
John Huley Assoc.
$20
quizzes you on 14 French conjugated verbs.
French Quizzler (FR-QUIZ)
Truett, Lawrence
$20
is a beginning level quiz on 167 French words.
German Quizzler (GERMVOC)
John Huley Assoc.
$20
quizzes you on 167 German words in five categories.
Kana Challenge (KANA)
Marshall, Shelly
$0
helps you learn the Japanese syllabaries of hiragana and katakana.
Latin I Review 1.21 (LATIN)
Meltzer, David
$10
is a Latin vocabulary and culture review program. Over 400 questions are
included and more can be easily added. It reviews 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension;
1st and 2nd conjugation; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension adjectives, adverbs,
prepositions, and numerals.
Universal Vocabulary Drill 1.0 (UVDRILL)
Nichols, Mike
$15
can be used to drill on vocabulary words (for SAT, ACT, etc.) as well as
on foreign languages. Sample files in English, German and Spanish are
provided.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3344
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#3060 Spanish Small Programs Disk
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Drills In Spanish G-1 (DRILSPN)
Walker, Robert H.
$15
is a Spanish language tutorial. Normally, we would not add a program like this
to the library because it is in uncompiled BASIC, requiring the user to have IBM
BASIC or GWBASIC, and the "shareware version" only includes two of the five sets
of drills. However, after comparing it to other Spanish tutors, we found it to
contain more words and have a more logical approach, in our opinion.
Mexican Slang (MEXSLNG)
In One EAR Publications
$10
is a guide to the hip talk and lewd eloquence of the Spanish used commonly
by modern Mexicans. This is the way the teens, yuppies, cholos, outlaws and
in-laws talk. If you have learned Spanish in school, you'll will welcome
the wealth of "real world" talk presented here. (Do you know why a nice
girl might not want to order "huevos for breakfast?)
The words and expressions in this program are not in a standard dictionary.
WARNING: Contains adult language.
Span-Eng
is a Spanish to English vocabulary drill. Requires Basic.
Spanish
Campbell, George
$0
is a Spanish phrasebook that talks. Thirty-six useful phrases for travellers
can be selected from a one-screen menu. The digitized voice is excellent for
the little speaker in the PC. It does not work on Compaq and Sharp portables.
Spanish Language Acquisition Software (SLAS)
Erickson, Timothy R.
$0
are designed to aid you in the study of Spanish, as opposed to being complete
Spanish tutorials themselves. Lessons cover the conjugation of verbs, the use
of the definite article, the spelling of numbers and the differences between
the use of "ser and "estar.
Spanish Quizzler (SPANVOC)
John Huley Assoc.
$20
quizzes you on 186 Spanish words in 6 categories.
SpanMath 1.0 (SPANMAT)
Thorson, Chris
$10
is a Spanish math tutor that will teach the names of Spanish numbers.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3060
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Cantonese
Crew, Louie
$?
#20009/811
stores data regarding Cantonese vocabulary and English meanings. It flashes
lessons to you, and branches in the next round to those that you missed in the
last. It keeps score on what parts you miss, (meaning, tone, measure...) It
uses a romanized form for Cantonese, but adapts to several commercial programs
to allow you to enter characters (even for Mandarin.)
Gakusei 1.0
Barham Software
$44
#20009/4663
is a tutorial on the Japanese language. You can view the Hiragana and
Katakana character sets and answers can be typed with Japanese characters.
Japanese character keyboards resemble the keyboards of Japanese
word-processing equipment.
Japanese characters may be printed with a dot-matrix or laser printer. An
extensive lesson glossary and a dictionary with conjugated verbs and true
adjectives are provided. Grammar is covered extensively in this program.
Requires 640K memory, 1meg of hard disk space, EGA/VGA, and DOS 3.3+.
Japanese For Business & Travel
Bernstein, Richard
#20009/712
is a tutorial composed of questions about vocabulary, grammar, and culture.
The course assumes no prior knowledge of Japanese. It even starts with a
little Japanese music to put you in the right frame of mind.
Included as part of the program is a sample of a program for learning the
Katakana (Japanese characters). However, when we tried to run that part of the
program , it locked up our machines, so don't try menu item 7. The rest of the
program seems to run all right.
Kapian
Mosier, Phil
$35
#20009/3364
helps you learn the Chinese language using a flash card approach. You can select
either Long or Short Form characters and romanization, with ten different
testing displays provided. The program also draws all the characters on the
screen one stroke at a time, in correct stroke order and at user-adjustable
speeds.
Early Spanish
DareWare, Inc. ASP
$33
#20192 [2 disks]
is a bilingual (Eng./Span.) program which teaches numbers and simple
math. With a sound card, the questions are heard in both languages. You
can turn off one language to teach kids the other language.
French Word Power
BC Enterprises Software
$19
#4816
will help French students build their vocabulary. It includes a total of
1200 words with sentences, and 400 sentences for translation. Words are
broken down into Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives/Misc. Adverbs, prepositions,
and pronouns are included. Up to 400 hundred new words can be added. The
current words can be replaced or modified. Each category is broken up
into 20 tests of 20 words each. Testing formats include multiple choice
and matching.
German
Tyler, Thomas E.
$10
#3514
is an English to German and German to English dictionary and translator
program. It can translate words and phrases as well as "sounds like". You can
add, change, delete and search for words. There is an English to German or
German to English quiz. You may print a complete dictionary of all the words
in the data file, sorted in any order you like. There are only 68 words in the
provided dictionary, but you can add as many words as you like to the data
file.
German Word Ladder 2.12
Widergren, Paul R.
$12-$22
#4134
is a series of programs for studying German vocabulary and grammar. The program
comes with 20 data files, including 12 noun files grouped according to subject
and four verb files. Additional files can be created using any word-processor
which can save files in ASCII-format. The program was written by a high school
German teacher.
Hebrew Tutorial Program
Rapier, David
$20
#1243
is a vocabulary program designed to guide a student through an entire first
year in biblical Hebrew. It is based on the book, Introduction to Biblical
Hebrew, by Thomas O. Lambdin. The program has Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew
quizzes for every Hebrew word appearing 10 or more times in the Old Testament
plus some that appear fewer times. It has thousands of verb forms with an
option to be quizzed on meaning or parsing.
Richard Gordon, Seattle, WA, reports that this will not work on his
fully-expanded PCjr. He says "The problem appears to be that the program was
compiled using Borland's Turbo BASIC. Unless a patch is used, none of Turbo
BASIC's output will run on any PCjr, cutting programmers off from 500,000
potential users." The patch is available on the IBM forum on CompuServe.
Italian
Tyler, T.
$10
#3483
is an English to Italian and Italian to English dictionary and translator
program. It can translate words and phrases as well as "sounds like". You
can add, change, delete and search for words. You may print a complete
dictionary of all the