Structure and Components of the Foreign Language Toolkit Programs

 

You can write the interactive foreign language lessons with Language Toolkit Writer and dictionaries (with inflection and other advanced grammar information) with the Verbs & Nouns program. You can browse the dictionaries and practise the foreign language on a word level using the Verbs & Nouns application. Language Toolkit Reader allows you to use both the Interactive Lessons and the Dictionaries.

The future components are: language toolkit text editor with the hypertext features, easy text analysis and translation, WWW capable utilities, Internet network lessons toolkit (to set up the real time lessons over the Internet) and more. The future of the project depends on the interest level.

Availability
<ftp://ftp.amug.org//pub/info-mac/edu/lang/> or other Info-Mac mirror sites.

Polish for Everyone
Here are the features of my Polish for Everyone 1.3 program.

Features
Version 1.3 of the Polish for Everyone program has the following features:
• 8 interactive lessons and many language exercises (300+ words introduced)
• sound support (600+ sound samples)
• lots of pictures
• vocabulary spoken aloud (300+ words)
• declension and conjugation tables
• pronunciation rules (with tongue position pictures and sound)
• illustrated information about Poland: currency, Tatra Mountains, prices
• grammar explanations

The program is designed for beginners, but also an intermediate student can find some useful things there.

Availability
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/appl/polish-for-everyone13.hqx>