PsL Monthly 1994 January/PSL Monthly Shareware CD-ROM (Public Software Library) (January 1994).iso/reviews/ed_04

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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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#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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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 Vocabulary Drill 1.0 [GERMAN]
   Traver, Barry A.
   $20
   #12674 (12-93 CD)
is a German vocabulary driller.The program also has back-ground music
and sound effects.


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 words in the data file, sorted in any order you like.


Japanese I
   Haller, Conrad
   $25
   #20223 [4 MegaDisks] (08-93 CD)
is a self study course for the Japanese language. It teaches you to
speak, read and understand the basics of Japanese.

It features over 3MB of digitized speech. Being able to hear a voice
speak the language makes all the difference in the world in learning a
language. You also see phrases spelled in English, in Japanese and
phonetically. Requires 640K RAM and a hard disk or high density floppy
and CGA or VGA.

Available only on four 3.5" 1.44MB disks at a special price of $9.99 or
on the August CD. Because the program takes over 4MB of hard disk space,
we have preinstalled it on the August PsL Monthly CD, as well as putting
it on the CD in ZIP format.


Language Teacher
   Micro Tutor Products
   $15 each or $65 for series
   #20273/0611 (2 disks)  (10-93 CD)
teaches French and Spanish 1 & 2, and German and Italian 1. You are allowed to
edit any of the vocabulary or phrase files. With this feature, you can create
your own word lists. You can also use these programs as an English/Other-
Language dictionary. (At one time these programs were in uncompiled Basic and
difficult to use. They have been completely overhauled and are in EXE format.)


Languages
   Arthur Wells, Jr.
   $15 per program
   #12559  (10-93 CD)
is a set of four different programs that help in learning various
languages:

[Euro41] covers French, German, Italian and Spanish.

[Euro91] includes Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese and Swedish.

[Russian1] covers Russian.

[ESL4SPAN] is for Spanish-speaking people wanting to learn English.


Learn to Sign 2.5
   HCB Computing
   $15
   #12518
teaches the American Sign Language, finger spelling only. It will show a
letter at a time, spell words, or read and display a text file in sign
language. It displays actual signs such as mother, hello, colors, and other
common words. It has support for left-handed people. Graphics required.


LinguaPro/Spanish 2.30a [LPROSP23]
   Schulenberg and Associates, Inc. ASP
   $45
   #12391 (12-93 CD)
is multi-faceted program for serious Spanish students. It offers an
18,000 word user-modifiable on-line dictionary, vocabulary flashcard
system, and verb flashcard system that teaches verbs in all tenses and
persons using complete sentences.

LinguaPro can also be used for the construction of English vocabulary
sets, or data files containing general question/answer information.
Requires 460K RAM and 700K of disk space.


Rexl 1.1
   Aurand, Henry S. ASP
   $24
   #27605/3632 [2 disks]
is a tutorial for intermediate Spanish students. You page through 76 screens
of material from Spanish literature. If a word or phrase is unknown to you,
you can move the cursor to it and see the translation. Or you can move the
cursor along as you read and see the meaning of each word. An automatic scan
mode can be set to a specified number of words per minute.


Ole! Rewarding Spanish
   Walker, Robert
   $10-$20
   #27605/4628  (10-93 CD)
is a well rounded Spanish tutorial offering verb conjugation, travelling
Spanish as well as conversational phrases. The program is menu driven and you
can easily pick and choose what you want to learn.


Spanish for Travellers
   Bernstein, Richard N.
   $0
   #27823/1241
teaches Spanish with an emphasis on how to pronounce the words, not just on
memorizing them.  It also has a separate menu called the Phrase/Verb menu
which teaches standard phrases, about verbs, and also has extra vocabulary
words for the serious student.


Spanish WordMaster
   Language Master International
   $20
   #27823/2800
is a Spanish language vocabulary tutor with 2000 words.


Spell and Pronounce Spanish Words
   Computer Specialties
   $25
   #27823/4416
is an easy way to learn how to spell and pronounce Spanish words. You are given
a wide selection on words from animals to things around the house.

Since the program does not drill you on using the words in sentences, this
program cannot be used by itself to learn Spanish, but it looks like a good
supplement and an excellent way for people studying Spanish to drill on
vocabulary.


Translator
   Tyler, T.
   $10
   #27823/3436
is an English/Spanish translator and dictionary program. It translates
single words and phrases and shows a phonetic spelling of what the word or
phrase should sound like. There is an English to Spanish or Spanish to English
quiz. It can also print a sorted dictionary.


Tour de Vocabulaire 1.0
   Dowd, Jim
   $10
   #4879
is an educational game designed to help build your French vocabulary and
knowledge of French history. The object of the game is to move the
French flag along a pre-defined route across France while using the
least amount of gasoline as possible. The flag is moved by correctly
answering French vocabulary questions which are drawn from a list of
over 5,000 words.


Ultimate Spanish and Ultimate French
   Ultimate Software
   $20 each
   #3999
quizzes you from a comprehensive library of vocabulary words, verb conjugation
and phrases. Words are grouped into nouns, verbs and miscellaneous for easier
learning. You can elect multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank drills. Mouse
support makes multiple choice easy, but click detection was not accurate. This
is an excellent set of language drills.


Vocabulator 3.1
   Blue Bull Software ASP
   $25
   #4479
drills you in vocabulary in any of ten different languages, including English,
Afrikans, French, German, Italian, Portuges, Slovak, Spanish, Tswana and Zulu.
You can select prompting in your language or the other language.

More words and phrases can easily be added to the database. Displayed on the
screen are special non-English characters which can be inserted into words via
the function keys. A list of words can also be printed. Requires 400K memory,
hard disk with at least 1 meg free and DOS 3.0+.


ZET
   Hoffman, Robert
   $30
   #4244
is an efficient way to memorize anything. An extensive set of files for
learning Spanish is included, but you can create your own files for any
subject. The innovative approach used by this program is to rearrange
questions or language phrases based on whether or not you got them right. The
result is that the more often you answer a particular prompt correctly, the
less often you will be drilled on it, and conversely, the more you will be
drilled on incorrect responses. The program is well designed and easy to use.
Another nice feature is the ability to search all of your files for a
particular word or phrase.

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