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CALL Commercial Product Announcements
Note: These announcements are provided as a service to our readers. Chorus
does not investigate nor accept responsibility for claims made in any announcement
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these announcements. Questions and comments should be directed to the organizational
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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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