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TeLL me More Chinese (Beginner/Advanced)

Price: $204.95

TELL ME MORE®, the widely popular software for language learning with more than 5 million users worldwide, is valued by users and teachers alike for its speech recognition technology and personalized language courses.

Focusing on Mandarin Chinese, simplified writing and Pinyin, TeLL me More covers all the essential areas of language learning: command of over 800 basic characters, comprehension, pronunciation, written expression and grammar. Developed in collaboration with INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations), TeLL me More Chinese is the first language learning software based on speech recognition that can analyze the four tones of the Chinese language perfectly..

This package offers 3 levels: Beginner, Advanced, and Advanced + . It includes more than 300 hours of learning and 1,500 exercises.

300 HOURS OF LEARNING AND OVER 1,500 EXERCISES

:: Interactive Dialogues
Have a free-flowing, interactive conversation with your computer, and perfect your pronunciation with over 1,500 words and phrases found in the dialogues.
The dialogues are based on everyday conversation and are supplemented by 400 photos that illustrate Chinese culture.

:: 3,000-word glossary
Enrich your vocabulary with a glossary of over 3,000 recorded words.

:: Grammar
Consult 74 key grammar points, presented in a simple and concise manner.

:: Over 1,500 exercises
Increase your knowledge and understanding of the course with a wide range of writing and listening activities referring to grammar and vocabulary points covered in the lessons.

:: Lesson Report
Maintain a thorough evaluation of your work on the 18 lessons and replay all your dialogues with the computer.

MULTI-LEVEL PACK [BEGINNER, ADVANCED AND ADVANCED +]

Beginner: to discover or revise the basics, and make yourself understood in basic everyday situations.

Advanced and Advanced +: for a complete revision, and to communicate fluently in any everyday situation.

INNOVATIONS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

:: State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition
With speech recognition technology, TeLL me More recognizes the four Chinese tones perfectly, assesses your pronunciation and corrects any mistakes.
By using the waveform and pitch curve displays as visual aids, you can improve both pronunciation and intonation.

:: Spoken Error Tracking System: S.E.T.S.
TeLL me More pinpoints and highlights mispronounced words within individual sentences using the exclusive S.E.T.S. technology (Spoken Error Tracking System)
You can install TeLL me More Chinese to receive the explanations (translations, grammar rules, etc) in English and French. The packaging and user manual, however, are in English.

FREE HEADSET WITH MICROPHONE

Price: $204.95



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SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 - Global - Stand Alone

Price: $194.95

English into/from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese

A pen pal's e-mail arrives in Spanish. A website is written entirely in German. Customer support for a new camera appears in Chinese. You need to break the language barrier fast! Thanks to SYSTRAN Personal translation software, you can translate letters, Web pages, email, chat, and so much more - in just two easy clicks.

SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 translates any written text and delivers real-time translations of Web pages with Internet Explorer™.

Powerful and Reliable

Using the same cutting-edge translation technology that has made SYSTRAN solutions the choice of leading search engines, multinational corporations, and governments, SYSTRAN Personal offers the ideal translation tool suited for all your personal needs, perfectly priced to meet your budget.

Easy To Use, From Installation to Translation

Simply install SYSTRAN Personal on your computer. Cut or copy up to 2 pages of text from any Windows application and the text is instantly translated with the SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar. You can even translate text into an application other than the one you copied it from - such as copying text from a Web browser and pasting it into a text editor.

You can also translate Web pages on-demand using the Internet Explorer plug-in that also includes translations of all hypertext links. This makes it a "must have" tool for the Web.

Key Features

  • Translate any written text - copy up to 2 pages from any Windows application
  • Train the software to understand your terminology - add up to 100 unique words into the dictionary
  • Integrated spell-checking lets you translate texts with common spelling errors
  • Select the geographic variations of the target language of translation (like US English vs. UK English)
  • Automatic dictionary updates let you keep pace with the constant evolution of language
  • And much more

Web content, email, travel, letters, shopping, and recipes - if they're not in your native language, you can break the language barrier fast with SYSTRAN Personal 5.0.

To use SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 you need

  • PC with Pentium III 500 MHz or faster
  • Microsoft Windows® 98SE / ME / NT4 with SP6 / 2000 / XP
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
  • 128 MB RAM or above is recommended
  • 160 MB available hard-disk space, plus 60 MB per language pair
  • 500 MB available disk space during the installation

Price: $194.95



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SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 - Asian - Stand Alone

Price: $139.95

English into/from Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese

A pen pal's e-mail arrives in Spanish. A website is written entirely in German. Customer support for a new camera appears in Chinese. You need to break the language barrier fast! Thanks to SYSTRAN Personal translation software, you can translate letters, Web pages, email, chat, and so much more - in just two easy clicks.

SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 translates any written text and delivers real-time translations of Web pages with Internet Explorer™.

Powerful and Reliable

Using the same cutting-edge translation technology that has made SYSTRAN solutions the choice of leading search engines, multinational corporations, and governments, SYSTRAN Personal offers the ideal translation tool suited for all your personal needs, perfectly priced to meet your budget.

Easy To Use, From Installation to Translation

Simply install SYSTRAN Personal on your computer. Cut or copy up to 2 pages of text from any Windows application and the text is instantly translated with the SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar. You can even translate text into an application other than the one you copied it from - such as copying text from a Web browser and pasting it into a text editor.

You can also translate Web pages on-demand using the Internet Explorer plug-in that also includes translations of all hypertext links. This makes it a "must have" tool for the Web.

Key Features

  • Translate any written text - copy up to 2 pages from any Windows application
  • Train the software to understand your terminology - add up to 100 unique words into the dictionary
  • Integrated spell-checking lets you translate texts with common spelling errors
  • Select the geographic variations of the target language of translation (like US English vs. UK English)
  • Automatic dictionary updates let you keep pace with the constant evolution of language
  • And much more

Web content, email, travel, letters, shopping, and recipes - if they're not in your native language, you can break the language barrier fast with SYSTRAN Personal 5.0.

To use SYSTRAN Personal 5.0 you need

  • PC with Pentium III 500 MHz or faster
  • Microsoft Windows® 98SE / ME / NT4 with SP6 / 2000 / XP
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
  • 128 MB RAM or above is recommended
  • 160 MB available hard-disk space, plus 60 MB per language pair
  • 500 MB available disk space during the installation

Price: $139.95



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Tong-Yi Chinese <-> English Internet Website Translator

Price: $99.95

This sophisticated software translator contains three main functions to help you get the most out of your web browsing experience. It will translate a whole website page in real time and can display the translation results in Chinese or in a Chinese and English comparison. It also provides translation when you pass your mouse over a word to quickly clarify the translation. And its Email translation function is a very convenient tool that lets you translate selected text from within your email program.

Interface and User’s Manual are available in Chinese only.

13.7mb

Price: $99.95



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Tong-Yi Chinese to English Translation Software

Price: $69.95

This incredible software translation dictionary is one of a kind. Containing 260,000 entries, it instantly translates from Chinese to English. A great learning tool, it features automatic, interactive and selective translation modes. Its handy User’s Dictionary lets you store sentences for future reference.

Interface and User’s Manual are available in Chinese only.

23.7MB

Price: $69.95



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Tong-Yi English to Chinese Translation Software

Price: $69.95

This incredible software translation dictionary is one of a kind. Containing 260,000 entries, it instantly translates from English to Chinese. A great learning tool, it features auto-correct functions, as well as automatic, interactive and selective translation modes. Its handy User’s Dictionary lets you store words, phrases and sentences for future reference. What’s more, it also supplies translations when you hover your mouse over just about any word.

Interface and User’s Manual are available in Chinese only.

11.6mb

Price: $69.95



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ECTACO English <-> Chinese Simplified Talking Partner Dictionary for Windows

Price: $49.95

English-Chinese (Simplified)Talking Partner Dictionary for Windows provides bidirectional word translation and synthesis of speech.

The dictionary is easy to install on a desktop computer. It translates words from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English.

The ability to pronounce English words is the distinguishing feature of this software translator. Now you don't have to check the transcription, merely select the word and with one click make the speech synthesizer pronounce it for you.

The synthesizer (Text-to-Speech engine) is based on a new approach to speech synthesis, i.e. on formant synthesis, which creates a human vocal tract simulation by modeling sounds of a national language.

For the convenience of users the Chinese words are supplied with the hieroglyph transliteration, PinYin transcription, given in brackets.

The Talking Partner Dictionary for Windows has the following features:

General features:

  • Overview of all the dictionary entries in the Main Window.
  • All translations of the selected word displayed in the Translation Window.
  • Quick search function: just enter a few characters and the word starting with them and its translations will be displayed.
  • Search function for any sequence of characters entered in the input line.
  • Quick reverse translation for proof of correct understanding.
  • Setting the type and size of characters used in the Main Window and in Translation Window.
  • Adjustable user's toolbar.
  • Standard text editing functions: paste, copy, cut texts, as well as texts import and export to other applications.
  • Adjustable parameters of the user interface.
Special features:
  • Pronunciation of all the listed English words. The function is developed on the basis of the TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology.
  • User vocabulary: the user's own dictionary is compiled by adding and editing dictionary entries
  • Instant translation of a text fragment, quick paste function: merely select the text fragment for import from an application and press hotkeys Ctrl+Insert+Insert. The text fragment will be automatically inserted in the input line and the most relevant dictionary entry will be displayed.
  • Parts of speech filter. This function makes the dictionary process only translations belonging to the selected parts of speech.
  • English Grammar Module. The Module includes grammar rules divided into 3 sections - Parts of Speech, Verbs and Sentence. The first section describes nouns, articles, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and numerals. In the section "Verbs" you can find rules referring to tenses of verbs, special verb forms. The "Sentence" section is devoted to statements and commands, questions and negations. The Module is a great aid for the English grammar study.

Price: $49.95



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LingvoSoft FlashCards English <-> Chinese Simplfied for Windows

Price: $39.95

LingvoSoft FlashCards for Windows is a collection of four absorbing games that will help you memorize thousands of foreign words quickly and easily. Both English and Chinese Simplfied words can be studied using this handy application right on your desktop or laptop PC running Windows 98, 2000 or XP.

With its straightforward, easy-as-can-be user interface, this program is a pleasure to use. You can concentrate on the learning process while the accommodating options are there when you need to adjust the experience to your taste.

FlashCards can be consulted in English, Russian, German, Spanish, or French language. It also includes a feature that lets users create their own glossaries and vocabularies and browse them just as easily.

LingvoSoft FlashCards is made up of four learning games:

  • Flash Cards
    The classical setup: each word and its translation are shown on the opposite sides of a “card”. You will get the hang of it in a matter of minutes. This is one of the most effective ways for building or expanding your vocabulary.
  • Pockets
    A traditional game geared toward in-depth memorization. The words you have mastered are moved from one pocket to the next, while the rest are left for further practice.
  • Translation Test
    This game is a translation test. Short multiple-choice questions let you check how well you know the words. This is a simple, yet effective way of brushing up on the words that need more attention.
  • Spell It Right!
    This game teaches you to spell foreign words correctly. It allows for typos and will tell you if you’ve made a small error in your answer.

We have pre-selected three thousand common words along with about four thousand technical terms for you to learn. However, don’t be overwhelmed by the numbers! Each vocabulary can be broken up into smaller sets of flexible size, giving you a word list that you can manage.

  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level I
  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level II
  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level III
  • Law terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Medical terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Business terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Computer terminology – about 1,000 words

The software comes with useful built-in help and a practical user’s manual.

Also, please take a look here. LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is the means for creating your own FlashCards word databases, from your personal text files as well as from clipboard bits. Memorize the words you need, with LingvoSoft FlashCards and FlashCards Builder.

The LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is accessible to all LingvoSoft guests, free of charge.

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Price: $39.95



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LingvoSoft FlashCards Russian <-> Chinese Simplfied for Windows

Price: $39.95

LingvoSoft FlashCards for Windows is a collection of four absorbing games that will help you memorize thousands of foreign words quickly and easily. Both Russian and Chinese Simplfied words can be studied using this handy application right on your desktop or laptop PC running Windows 98, 2000 or XP.

With its straightforward, easy-as-can-be user interface, this program is a pleasure to use. You can concentrate on the learning process while the accommodating options are there when you need to adjust the experience to your taste.

FlashCards can be consulted in English, Russian, German, Spanish, or French language. It also includes a feature that lets users create their own glossaries and vocabularies and browse them just as easily.

LingvoSoft FlashCards is made up of four learning games:

  • Flash Cards
    The classical setup: each word and its translation are shown on the opposite sides of a “card”. You will get the hang of it in a matter of minutes. This is one of the most effective ways for building or expanding your vocabulary.
  • Pockets
    A traditional game geared toward in-depth memorization. The words you have mastered are moved from one pocket to the next, while the rest are left for further practice.
  • Translation Test
    This game is a translation test. Short multiple-choice questions let you check how well you know the words. This is a simple, yet effective way of brushing up on the words that need more attention.
  • Spell It Right!
    This game teaches you to spell foreign words correctly. It allows for typos and will tell you if you’ve made a small error in your answer.

We have pre-selected three thousand common words along with about four thousand technical terms for you to learn. However, don’t be overwhelmed by the numbers! Each vocabulary can be broken up into smaller sets of flexible size, giving you a word list that you can manage.

  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level I
  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level II
  • 1,000 words, general vocabulary Level III
  • Law terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Medical terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Business terminology – about 1,000 words
  • Computer terminology – about 1,000 words

The software comes with useful built-in help and a practical user’s manual.

Also, please take a look here. LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is the means for creating your own FlashCards word databases, from your personal text files as well as from clipboard bits. Memorize the words you need, with LingvoSoft FlashCards and FlashCards Builder.

The LingvoSoft FlashCards Builder is accessible to all LingvoSoft guests, free of charge.

Download for Free

Price: $39.95


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