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F O R E I G N P A S S P O R T
by Paul McAleer
Is this the year you take that European vacation? Or is this the year
that English becomes the secondary language in your community? In either
case you may want to brush up on your Spanish, French or German. Paul
McAleer's FOREIGN PASSPORT is a straightforward quiz program that will help
you understand typical sentences and phrases in these languages.
I seem to have forgotten that you may be a Spanish-, French- or
German-speaking person who wants to brush up on his English. FOREIGN
PASSPORT works both ways -- English to French, French to English, for
example.
A disclaimer is in order. Paul took his data from several books on
translations for tourists. The books may be wrong, Paul may have made a
mistake, or I may have made a mistake when I edited his program. In
addition, there are regional dialects and disagreements over usage. So, if
you spy a translation that's not exactly correct, write us and tell us about
it but please don't call our tech support number and ask for a fixed
program.
I think you'll be surprised as I was when you take the tests. You'll
probably score much higher than you thought you would. All four languages
are romance languages (I think) and it's amazing how similar they are,
especially when written out. This is encouraging. You will find that
reading signs, pamphlets and other reading materials in a foreign land is
not difficult at all. If only it were easier to understand vernacular
speech...
The main menu allows you to choose between eight options: Foreign to
English, English to Foreign (three each), Tile Style and Quit. A formal
quiz consists of 35 sentences but you can quit at any time by pressing Q.
You're shown how well you did and returned to the Main Menu. It's really a
simple program.
Paul used Jon Mattson's CONTROL 80 (from LOADSTAR 128 #10) and two
fonts so all of the proper accented letters in the languages are shown.
There is no provision for entering phrases of your own at this time.
Good luck! Bon fortune! Buenos fortunos! Gudenlucken!
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