Copyright: ®1997 Translation Experts Ltd.


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LanguageTutor™

copyright ©1997 Translation Experts Ltd. All rights reserved.

LanguageTutor will help you learn new foreign words and phrases as well as their pronunciation by automatically accessing the Word Translator™ dictionary and speech files.

Word/Phrase Translation Practice

Speech Pronunciation Practice

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Word/Phrase Practice

 Word/Phrase Translation Practice

To use LanguageTutor™ to help you learn new foreign words and phrases:

1 Select the dictionary you wish to use in the upper-right hand corner of the LanguageTutor screen. With any dictionary, the source language is the first named language and the destination language is the second named language.

2 In the Type Word/Phrase to Guess box:

A either type your own word or phrase

OR

B click the Generate Random Word/Phrase button and LanguageTutor will randomly select words and phrases from the selected source language dictionary.

To start out, it may be easiest to just let LanguageTutor select words and phrases by clicking the Generate Random Word/Phrase button.

3 With a source language base word or base phrase displayed in the Word/Phrase to Guess box, next, either:

A go to the Ill type my own translation box, click your cursor inside the box and type the translation you think is correct

OR

B click the Give me multiple choices button

To start out, it may be easiest to use the Give me multiple choices button.

4 If you clicked the Give me multiple choices button, select (highlight) the translation you think is correct by clicking directly on it with your left mouse button.

5 Whether you typed the translation you think is correct or used the Give me multiple choices button, next click the Am I Right? button.

6 LanguageTutor will tell you if you have typed or selected the correct translation and will update your score in the Session % Correct box in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.


Speech Practice

 Speech Pronunciation Practice

With a speech card and a CD ROM version of Word Translator that contains recorded speech in the source language you will be able to hear the pronunciation of the word or phrase displayed below the Type Word/Phrase to Guess box or Generate Random Word/Phrase box by clicking the Computer Voice Speak button.

With a microphone, you can also record your own pronunciation and compare it with the pronunciation recorded by a native speaker. You can repeatedly record your own pronunciation until you perfect your pronunciation for any given word or phrase.


An English-?????? dictionary contains English base words and phrases with corresponding translations in the other language while a ??????-English dictionary contains base words and phrases in the other language with corresponding English translations. If you want to start with English base words/phrases and guess the foreign translation, use an English-?????? dictionary. If you want to type foreign words/phrases and guess the translation in English, use the ??????-English dictionary.