VOCABULARY

• Having trouble learning your French vocabulary?

• German phrases just go out of your head?

• Can't get to grips with Spanish word lists?

The Vocabulary program can help with that essential part of getting started in a foreign language - learning the words.

Key Features

• You (or your teacher) make your own vocabulary files, so you learn the words that are important to you.

Vocabulary files can be made by anyone - parent, teacher, or pupil. They can contain phrases as well as single words, and include both the English and the foreign language text. Importantly, sound files can also be used, meaning that the pupil can hear the foreign language properly pronounced, and repeated as often as needed.

• You can use the program with any foreign language with a Roman script.

The program chooses words and phrases from the selected vocabulary file either randomly or in order. They can be in English, or in the foreign language, or in a mixture of both. The pupil is asked to translate to the other language.

• How you work is up to you - you can write your responses, speak your responses, or just read and listen to the correct answer.

The pupil can speak an answer in the foreign language. This is then played back just before the correct answer is played from the sound file, so that the pupil can listen to and check his or her own pronunciation.

The pupil can write an answer, and this will be marked by the program against the original list of words or phrases.

The program also offers dictation in the foreign language. The pupil is then expected to spell the foreign words, and this is checked against the version given by the program.

• Flexibile use

Vocabulary can be used not just in learning foreign vocabulary, but also in learning English spelling, or as a reading tutor (particularly for children with dyslexia), or as an aid to learning technical vocabulary...

IT'S FREE. Why not give it a try? Click to download ...

• Click the download link above.
• Choose to Save the file vocab.zip to your desktop (or any other known location)
• Right-click the file and select Explore to reveal its contents (setup.exe and setup_vocab.msi).
• Double-click setup.exe and follow the on-screen instructions.
• You can now delete the file vocab.zip.

Run the program by selecting Vocabulary from your Start Menu. Click the Help button to see what to do ...

Requirements:

A sound card and microphone is needed for recording the vocabulary files, and is strongly recommended for running the program.

Feedback:

If you find the program useful, or have any feedback that you wish to give, please let me know by e-mail.

Vocabulary is written by Dr. W. J. Heitler, University of St Andrews, Scotland

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