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LATEST PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The University of Arizona's Critical Languages Series CDROMs
    (added 2/14/00):

    Beginning Brazilian Portuguese
    Beginning Cantonese
    Beginning Chinese
    Beginning Kazak
    Beginning and Continuing Korean
    Beginning Turkish

    Are now all available from the University of Arizona Press for $69.95 per language. You can order online at http://www.uapress.arizona.edu or call them at 1-800-426-3797.

    Each language's double CDROM set contains 20 lessons, at least 25 video clips, 6500 audio recordings, graphics, exercises, and extensive grammatical and cultural notes. For details, see http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/.

  • Pinyin Master (added 7/28/99)
    A multimedia, fully interactive, user-friendly self-paced tutorial on the pinyin system, Mandarin pronunciation, and the mastery of tones; available today for students who are interested in mastering the pinyin, Mandarin pronunciation, and the tones. The user will also master the pinyin input method when s/he does Chinese wordprocessing.

    For more information, contact:

    California State University, Long Beach
    1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840
    Telephone: (562) 985-5493
    Email: sanpaoli@csulb.edu
    WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~sanpaoli/pym/pym.htm

  • Real English (added 6/4/99)
    Real English is a trip for students of English as a Foreign or Second Language. The CD-ROMs and Video Cassettes guide beginners and more advanced students through a functional and grammatical learning experience in London, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, Atlanta, Edinburgh and dozens of other towns and cities throughout the English-speaking world in both hemispheres. It is the 1st method that has dared organize spontaneous speech. "Visually this is a real feast! Definitely a killer app." Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento, director of the graduate TESOL Program.

    For more information, see:

    WWW: http://www.realenglish.tm.fr

  • Bushou Master 1.0 (added 4/15/99)
    Bushou Master 1.0 teaches the 214 traditional "bushou" or radicals used to categorize Chinese characters. Animated stroke order is given for each radical, along with sound files for Mandarin pronunciation. Also has Pinyin and meaning glosses. You can also connect directly from your Win95/98 desktop to the online quizzes on our website and check your progress (this feature not available in the demo) If you have a Flash enabled browser, check out our online demo at http://wwli.com/languages/zhongwen/lesson01/flash/bushou_demo.html or download a demo of the stand-alone application (no Flash required) from http://wwli.com/downloads The demo has 50 radicals.

    For more information, contact:

    WorldWide Language Institute
    5E, Block 9, 33 Tin Ping Rd, Sheung Shui, NT, HONG KONG
    Telephone: (Hong Kong) 2807 1259
    Email: info@wwli.com
    WWW: http://wwli.com

 


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