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Learn Chinese CD-ROMs The Chinese Cultural Learning Center, established in 1974 for the purposes of teaching Chinese language and culture, now offers a set of CD-ROMs for learning Chinese. Conversation includes 40 lessons that cover the basics of living, such as greetings, ordering meals at a restaurant, counting, days of the weeks, etc. Educational Stories 1 and 2 include 15 stories each, along with the 'Story's Stories' at the end of each CD-ROM which explains why the stories were chosen to be included in the set. Modern Chinese Prose 1 has 10 articles written by Bajin, Xiè Bingyíng, and Bingxin; Modern Chinese Prose 2 has 8 articles written by Zhu Zìqing, Ding Líng, Liáng Shíqiu and Yè Shèngtáo. Each Chinese word is also written in pin-yin and translated literally into English; each sentence is also translated into colloquial English; and there are also versions with both complicated and simplified characters. To use, simply put the CD-ROM into the hard drive, wait a moment, and the Table of Contents will automatically appear on your screen; then choose a selection by clicking on the title. If you wish to listen, you can choose either Chinese or English. To change pages, click the page number located in the space between the complicated and simplified character versions. Also offered are book versions with the same content as the CD-ROMs. Learn Chinese CD-ROMs $35   Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 Modern Chinese Prose 1 Modern Chinese Prose 2    Learn Chinese Books (Each edition comes in traditional or simplified versions.) $49   Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 1 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 1 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 2 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 2 - simplified    Learn Chinese CD-ROM Package Contains 5 CD-ROMs: Conversation, Educational Stories (CD1 and CD2), and Modern Chinese Prose (CD1 and CD2). $199   More information for Learn Chinese...

Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Language Course for Mandarin Chinese The Rosetta Stone intensive courses assume no prior knowledge of a foreign language and will take the student through the equivalent of a year's college study, teaching both the spoken and written foreign language. Unlike learning in language classrooms, Rosetta Stone is designed to be entertaining and self-paced. You can learn a foreign language when you want, for as long or short a time as you wish. The complete set of Rosetta Stone language CD-ROM courses contains over 8,000 real life color images, plus thousands of words and phrases spoken by native speakers. Available for Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, French, German, Indonesian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Latin, Japanese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Rosetta Stone for Mandarin Chinese Level 1 $269   Rosetta Stone for Mandarin Chinese Level 2 $299   Rosetta Stone for Mandarin Chinese Level 3 $299   Levels 1 and 2 $495   Levels 1, 2, and 3 $675   More information for Rosetta Stone...

Learn Chinese CD-ROMs The Chinese Cultural Learning Center, established in 1974 for the purposes of teaching Chinese language and culture, now offers a set of CD-ROMs for learning Chinese. Conversation includes 40 lessons that cover the basics of living, such as greetings, ordering meals at a restaurant, counting, days of the weeks, etc. Educational Stories 1 and 2 include 15 stories each, along with the 'Story's Stories' at the end of each CD-ROM which explains why the stories were chosen to be included in the set. Modern Chinese Prose 1 has 10 articles written by Bajin, Xiè Bingyíng, and Bingxin; Modern Chinese Prose 2 has 8 articles written by Zhu Zìqing, Ding Líng, Liáng Shíqiu and Yè Shèngtáo. Each Chinese word is also written in pin-yin and translated literally into English; each sentence is also translated into colloquial English; and there are also versions with both complicated and simplified characters. To use, simply put the CD-ROM into the hard drive, wait a moment, and the Table of Contents will automatically appear on your screen; then choose a selection by clicking on the title. If you wish to listen, you can choose either Chinese or English. To change pages, click the page number located in the space between the complicated and simplified character versions. Also offered are book versions with the same content as the CD-ROMs. Learn Chinese CD-ROMs $35   Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 Modern Chinese Prose 1 Modern Chinese Prose 2    Learn Chinese Books (Each edition comes in traditional or simplified versions.) $49   Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 1 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 1 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 2 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 2 - simplified    Learn Chinese CD-ROM Package Contains 5 CD-ROMs: Conversation, Educational Stories (CD1 and CD2), and Modern Chinese Prose (CD1 and CD2). $199   More information for Learn Chinese...

IQChinese GO Series IQChinese is designed to deal with the bottlenecks and challenges that learners face when learning Chinese as a second language. IQChinese courseware and software provide a unique, multimedia Chinese language learning system that integrates the familiarity of typing with a detailed, individual performance analysis. The result? An easy-to-use, computer-friendly format that makes learning Mandarin Chinese easy, enjoyable, and effective. IQChinese GO is an eight volume series, each volume containing ten lessons and each lesson introducing 12 new, high-frequency, common, and "everyday-type" Chinese words. Each CD provides 10 lessons in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. It’s like getting 20 lessons for the price of 10. IQChinese GO is designed to continually review Chinese characters which have previously been introduced, thus accumulating reviewed knowledge while simultaneously introducing new knowledge. The IQChinese GO curriculum facilitates interactive learning with theme-based lessons that can easily be adapted into daily life. Additionally, the curriculum is designed according to the K-12 educational framework in the United States and Canada. Runs on Windows and Macintosh systems. IQChinese GO Series Individual Volumes $99   Go100 Go200 Go300 Go400 Go500 Go600 Go700 Go800    IQChinese GO Series Volumes 1-8    (Save $235 over buying the modules separately!) $555

IQChinese Pinyin IQChinese Pinyin is a multimedia courseware that introduces initials, finals, and tones of the standard Pinyin system using a native speaker's voice. It includes a practice feature that allows the Chinese language student to hear any possible combination of initials, finals, and tones in standard spoken Mandarin Chinese. Includes video clips of a native speaker's mouth speaking all Mandarin Initials and Finals. $99

TeLL me More for Chinese TeLL me More is Europe's best selling language software, used by major schools, universities and corporations. Tell Me More is a complete learning solution, with 200 hours of material per level, multimedia video and sound, and state-of-the-art speech recognition. TeLL me More speech recognition technology recognizes what you say, assesses your pronunciation, and corrects any mistakes. Available in 3 levels for the beginner or more advanced student, in 8 languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish. More about Tell Me More...

EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...

Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Mandarin and Cantonese The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. Talk Now! for Mandarin $45   Talk Now! for Cantonese $45   More about the Talk Now! series...

Talk More! CD-ROM Course for Mandarin and Cantonese Talk More! continues the Talk Now! series using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques in a software package that is ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families. The software uses the familiar Eurotalk interactive style of learning, with topics such as The Alphabet, Greetings, At The Restaurant, Shopping, Getting Around, At The Hotel, One The Phone, Emergencies, Leisure, and Business, and modules on phrases and conversations, and entertaining quiz games to test and further learn the language. Help is available in over 25 languages and the package includes an Talk More! Extras disc with additional help languages and bonus material. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Talk Now! for Mandarin $45   Talk Now! for Cantonese $45   More about the Talk More! series...

Talk Now! / Talk More! / World Talk Package for Mandarin and Cantonese
Now get Talk Now!, Talk More!, and World Talk from Eurotalk in a bundle and save $40! These courses perfectly complement each other, with World Talk and Talk More! at an intermediate level taking up where Talk Now! for beginners leaves off. Both offer the same format of interactive learning with fun games and tests that monitor your progress while you are having fun and learning. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM.
for Mandarin
$99  
for Cantonese
$99  

World Talk from EuroTalk for Mandarin and Cantonese (for intermediate learners) World Talk is the perfect follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend! World Talk is now available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. World Talk for Mandarin $49   World Talk for Cantonese $49   More about World Talk...

Talk The Talk from Eurotalk for Mandarin (for teens) Learn words and phrases that matter to you with this new language learning CD ROM for youth under eighteen. From "I'll send you a text message later" to "we won the game on penalties", Talk The Talk really gets you talking. Aimed at people who are beginning to get to grips with a new language or preparing for school exams, it gives you more than 200 phrases in your chosen language. Special features include a wide range of topics including travelling, computers and technology, sport, hobbies and school; words spoken by native speakers so you can repeat and learn; quizzes that test your knowledge; the chance to record your pronunciation, compare it to your 'teacher's'' - and then award yourself marks for ability; 3 levels of awards to achieve; automatic localisation - lets you choose the language you learn from; and a printable phrasebook of what you've learnt. More than ten million people worldwide have already learnt a language with EuroTalk. EuroTalk gets results fast and is fun! $49   More about the Talk The Talk series...

Talk Business for Mandarin If you want to succeed in business abroad, then this Talk Business CD-ROM is for you. Aimed at people who already know the basics, it gives the specialised language you need for doing business abroad. It focuses on must-know language ranges from basics like 'what is your website address?' to more advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets. Special features include: a wide range of topics: business meetings, trading, IT, the internet, advertising, negotiations, banking and many more, words spoken by native speakers so you can repeat and learn., quizzes that test your knowledge, the chance to record your pronunciation, compare it to your 'teacher's' - and then award yourself marks for ability, three levels of awards to achieve, automatic localisation - lets you choose the language you learn from, a printable phrasebook of what you've learnt. $49   More about Talk Business...

Vocabulary Builder from EuroTalk for Mandarin and Cantonese (for absolute beginners) Vocabulary Builder is an interactive flash card system for parents and teachers to help teach basic language, and for children to play games and record their own words and sentences. Help is provided in over 40 languages by a talented talking tiger! Now available for learning Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Vocabulary Builder for Mandarin $49.95   Vocabulary Builder for Cantonese $49.95   More about Vocabulary Builder...

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Lingosmart Office Do you want to do business abroad? Do you already have international business connections? Lingosmart Office creates your foreign business correspondence quickly and easily without help from the outside, fast, automatically, and with style, and with great savings in time and cost. Lingosmart Office solves translation problems by using a simple yet ingenious approach. You create your letter, fax or email in your native language choosing desired phrases from up to 15,000 sentences from most business areas. With a simple mouse-click it converts it into a perfectly formulated document in your target language. Unlike traditional translation programs, Lingosmart Office does not require manual editing as it does not translate word-for-word, but cleverly pulls from a database of equivalent phrases to express the exact meaning in the target language. Available in American English and British English with the following languages: Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Lingosoft Office - Regular Version $250   American English <-> Chinese British English <-> Chinese    More about Lingosmart Office...

LEC Translate LEC Translate is used by more than 3 million customers worldwide to quickly and economically translate email, web pages, documents, instant messages, and more. LEC offers powerful and extensive solutions for any translation tasks. Translate Personal is the entry level version of this powerful, extensive, and cost-effective family of desktop language translation software. Translate Personal incorporates a control center for launching and configuring its specialized applications for translation of text, files, email, chat, instant messages, or web pages. The control center also includes its own text box for text translation. It also comes with ClipTrans, LogoTrans, MirrorTrans, TransIt, and the Translate toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Translate Business is the intermediate version of the desktop translation software. In addition to all of the features of Personal Edition, Business includes Business subject dictionaries and powerful Office Add-ins for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Translate Pro is the flagship version of the desktop translation software, geared to obtain the highest possible accuracy and control over translation. Pro includes all the features of Business, plus all of the special dictionaries for select professional subjects, as well as the Dictionary utility, allowing you to view, create and modify dictionaries. Pro also includes the batch file translation utility, FileTrans, allowing efficient translation of multiple files. LEC Translate is available for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. There are also language bundles, Asian, Euro, and Magellan, available for people who need to translate multiple languages. More about LEC Translate...

Collins Lexibase Pro Chinese Edition Collins Lexibase dictionaries let you quickly find the translation you need. Use it as a stand-alone tool to look up one word at a time, or use it with your favorite LEC desktop products. Chinese Pro provides bidirectional translation between English and Chinese, and all of the Collins Lexibase Pro dictionaries include all of the features found in the Collins Standard Dictionary. Lexibase Pro adds high-quality pronunciation for both source and target languages for English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German; the Collins English Dictionary, 5th Edition; and the Collins A-Z Thesaurus, 1st Edition. Included is a search function that searches the entire contents of the dictionary, including examples, for any text string -- words, phrases, or sentences, and hyperlinks: double-clicking on a word launches a search of that word. LEC products integrate the Collins dictionaries automatically, adding a menu to any LEC product. You get one-click word searches from any LEC product directly from the Collins dictionary. Requirements: Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista; (Speech in Collins Pro products not available for Windows SE or Windows ME). $129   Chinese

PowerWord Chinese Learning and Translation Software PowerWord is designed for people learning or practicing Chinese at all levels. For beginners, PowerWord guides you word by word through explanations, examples, pronunciations, and translations. For professionals, it provides the most comprehensive Chinese and English database that covers all areas with its easy to use interface, for all of your translation, research, and study needs. PowerWord has more than 200 million words, abbreviations, and names from six internally recognized bilingual Chinese-English dictionaries, plus a large variety of terminologies from more than 30 scientific, engineering, law, medical, and business dictionaries. It pronounces English and Chinese (Standard Mandarin) words and sentences by native male and female voices to help you learn to speak like a native speaker. And PowerWord is designed to integrate through instant two-way translation at cursor-point with popular software such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Acrobat Reader, plus search engines on the Internet. That is why PowerWord is used in more than 50,000 educational institutes, businesses, and government agencies all over the world by more than 20 million people. System Requirements: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP, 16 MB RAM, 300 MB hard disk space, Pentium 133 or better, CD-ROM drive, and sound card. $99

Chinese Character Tutor 5.0 For Windows
by Andy Ferguson
This new version is a substantial upgrade to this popular character tutorial, and includes powerful testing functions. With a 5,000-word dictionary, 100 lessons, good explanation of stroke order, varied testing features and on-line help.
New features of version 5.0 include:

• Traditional characters
• Over 6,400 characters (previously 1,750)
• An expanded main dictionary
• New testing methods

Language Teacher for Palm OS and Pocket PC Language Teacher is a software version of the Language Teacher electronic handheld dictionaries of Ectaco, Inc. that runs on Pocket PC's and computers with the Palm OS operating system, and is similar to the version for Windows. A large volume dictionary database and the ability to translate to and from a language allow you to select the exact translation according to your needs. The word-for-word translation mode is very useful when all you need is general sense of a phrase or sentence. $59.95   Palm OS for English <-> Chinese Pocket PC for English <-> Chinese    More about Language Teacher for Palm OS and Pocket PC's...

AM101 English/Chinese Talking Electronic Translator The AM101 Electronic Handheld Chinese English Dictionary translates English words/sentence to Chinese (followed by Pin-Yin in Basic dictionary) and pronounces authentic Mandarin Chinese Voice (it can pronounce English voice too). It is specially designed for English speakers to learn Chinese. It contains not only the sentence translation engine but also the following dictionaries: English to Chinese (Basic), extended bi-directional English/Chinese dictionary, Chinese to English, five subject dictionaries and more. $299   More about Electronic Pocket Dictionaries...

YiShen 888 Chinese-English Electronic Dictionary
This bidirectional English <-> Chinese translator is one of the world's few electronic dictionaries that offer two-way sentence translations carrying up to 82% of the source meaning. The YiShen 888 translates and pronounces full sentences from English into Chinese and from Chinese into English with equal accuracy and speed. Whenever an uncertain word is encountered, pertinent information can be found quickly and conveniently by cross-searching the Longman English Dictionary and the English -> Chinese, Chinese -> English and Chinese dictionaries. Together, these authoritative reference sources add up to half a million words and cover all topics of human knowledge. This model features expandable, cross-searchable built-in dictionaries in English, English-Chinese, Chinese-English, and Chinese; large LCD screen that is easy on your eyes; voice output in both English and Chinese, with reread, follow-read, listen, and read functions; conversation vocabulary for traveling (in 8 languages); hand-written input is available, with 7 input methods (including pinyin) for the Chinese dictionary; built-in application “Interactive Dialogue” with Role Play function. Also included are digital memo recording function; a well-made carrying pouch; communication (COM port) cable which allows Telephone Directory, Memo, and Schedule to be transmitted to PC; supplied with earphones, 110V&220V Power Adapter, 4 regular AAA batteries, 4 AAA rechargeable batteries, and a AAA rechargeable set; one-year warranty; User Manual in Chinese and a quick user’s guide in English.
$499  
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Franklin B-1100 Chinese-English Dictionary/Translator
The B1100 is designed to help Chinese speakers to improve their English or for English speakers to master the Chinese language. It contains more than 264,000 words, and uses the advanced ClariSpeech System for English word pronunciation and Chinese words and definitions are spoken by a human voice. Among its many features are: pronunciation of phrases, words and syllables; Advanced Voice function for Chinese (Mandarin) and English; use either Chinese (no pinying) or English characters on display; includes 264,000 definitions as well as phonetic spell correction; calculator with currency converter; personal organizer including alarm, appointment reminder, calendar; databank for storing names and phone numbers; 6 fun word games will help build confidence; Two BOOKMAN card slots are provided for extra data expandability.
$159.95  
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Windows XP Pro MultiLingual OEM with keyboard stickers for Chinese Get a multilingual version of Windows XP Pro with keyboard stickers for your language of choice! By building on the proven Windows 2000 operating system, Windows XP Professional Edition delivers a reliable foundation you can count on to keep your computer up and running when you need it most. This version of XP Pro is a multilingual version that can be localized to a variety of languages - if for some reason you need to use it in a language other than the one first planned for, you can simply change the settings, and it will localize to one of the 22 languages available. The installation for the Multilingual Windows version of XP Pro is in English; you may then install as many of the additional languages as desired. When the language support is installed, Windows and all the related utilities can be brought up by simply entering Control Panel, selecting the system language and logging out and back into Windows - no reboot is necessary. Comes without printed manual or box. $299   More information for Windows XP Pro MultiLingual OEM...

Global Office Suite Now get Global Writer and Global Office for Office 97/2000/XP in one package for an amazing price! Global Writer is the word processor that lets you write in 100 languages with one keyboard, and Global Office is the enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages - together they provide a complete multilingual suite. This package gives you a savings of $80 over buying these products individually! $299   More information for Global Office Suite...

Global Writer Professional Multilingual Word Processor Global Writer Professional is a word processor that lets you express yourself in 100 languages without learning a new keyboard layout or using stickers. It is very easy to use because it looks and feels like popular Windows applications. Global Writer's built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus make typing faster and more convenient than ever. Best of all, everything you need is included in the box, at an amazingly low price. Shipping weight 1 lb. $129   More information for Global Writer...

Global Office Language Support for Office 97/2000 Now you can write in all major languages from your standard English Windows in Office 97/2000! Unitype Global Office is an enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages to these Microsoft products: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is easy to use, yet powerful enough to support the most demanding tasks of businesses, translation professionals, and academics worldwide. Best of all, the program is simple to install and everything you need is on one CD-ROM. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $250   More information for Global Office...

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