Multilingual Books January Newsletter

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In this issue:

• Feature Article - Human brain works heavy statistics learning language
• Product News ASL (American Sign Language) Review - Top 10 Products
• Featured Site - Google Language Tools
• Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products!
• Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers!

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American Sign Language Clip and Create 2
It's brand new! American Sign Language Clip and Create 2 is an upgraded version of American Sign Language Clip and Create. Now you can design your own sign language materials using any of over 3,000 sign clipart pictures and explanatory graphics. Custom printing features enable you to create letterhead, banners, posters, cards, postcards, and labels. New features include the ability to "layer" your designs, and save files as bitmap so that they can be used in other programs. Use six templates to customize crossword puzzles, SIGN-O cards, fingerspelling scrambles, ABC order worksheets, and word finds and also save them as bitmap. Four games - Spell Well, Match Madness, Con-SIGN-tration, and Sort it Out! support spelling, sign language memory, receptive speed, and categorization skills.
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Interax Video Sign Language Course
Learning American Sign Language is easier than you ever imagined! This course was chosen by the National Association for the Deaf for teaching closed captioning. Using the Interax Video Sign Language Course you can develop signing skills at your own pace and at your convenience. By watching the tapes just a few minutes a day, you'll be amazed how many signs you learn and how easy they are to remember. Unlike sign language books, video shows the motion, speed, direction, and important facial expressions of each sign. The instructor clearly illustrates and immediately repeats each sign, allowing you an opportunity to perform the sign. The English equivalent of the sign being demonstrated is provided on the screen, allowing the hearing-impaired to use the course without a caption decoder. The lesson and sign numbers aid in finding a particular section of the tape. Designed to fit your schedule, the 6.5 hour video course is divided into 57 subject related lessons on 6 VHS videotapes. A Quick Quiz at the end of each lesson lets you check your sign language comprehension, giving you confidence to move forward. Upon completion of the course you will have learned over 1200 signs of American Sign Language (ASL), giving you the ability to communicate effectively with the deaf. Interax Sign Language Course comes with 6 course videos and a book.
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myTTY 3.0 Software Teletype Emulator
myTTY is a Windows computer program that can make your computer perform like a sophisticated TTY with many more features (e.g., phonebook, answer machine, caller ID, descramble, customized fonts and backgrounds). Deaf people and others who cannot hear or speak over the telephone use equipment called a teletypewriter (TTY) instead, which allow individuals to type back and forth to each other. But most TTYs cost $250-$600, and they frequently break down, encounter transmission difficulties due to incompatibility with other equipment, and need recalibration from time to time. myTTY 3.0 is software that lets your computer act like a TTY, allowing you to make and receive calls from TTYs and other computers that have TTY software. Features include the following: alerts to incoming calls, audio signals (e.g., ringing, busy) are displayed, answering machine, Caller ID, telephone book, audio messages for voice callers, audio detection of optimal voice modem, disconnect detection, automatic relay dialing, save conversation, copy and paste text, printer support, automatic line noise suppression, online help documents, "ungarble" capabilities, customize font, color, size of letters, and background. System requirements are Windows 98SE or higher, 32 MB memory, TAPI-compliant voice modem, Pentium processor or equivalent, and a CD-ROM drive.
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1. Platiquemos Spanish Course

2. Language Littles Speaking Dolls

3. FSI Arabic Iraqi Dialect Orientation Course - CD

4. Talk Now CD-ROM Language Courses

5. The Twisted Doors Book and CD-ROM

6. Instant Replay Digital Tape/CD/MP3 Players

7. Speech Works ESL Accent Reduction Course

8. FSI Philippine Headstart Course

9. Tell Me More Language Software

10. FSI French Courses - CD

Last month's trivia questions and answers:

The following holiday greetings are in which languages?

Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! - Dutch

Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar - Afrikaans

Melkam Yelidet Beaal - Amharic

Gajan Kristnaskon, Bonan Novjaron - Esperanto

Noeli Nziza, Umwaka Mwiza - Kirundi

Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to this month's winner, Livia Alves de Almeida.

This month's trivia quiz:

Valentine’s Day is near: The perfect time to let a special someone know how you feel - in their native language! Below is the phrase “I love you” in many languages. What is the language of origin for each?

Shi ingolth-a.

Maite Zaitut.

Wo ai nei.

Je t'aime.

S'as agapo.

Aloha wau ia oe.

Te iubesc.

Mimi nakupenda.

Ngi ya thandela wena.

The answers and the winner will be in our next newsletter. Winner will receive their choice of one Talk Now or World Talk language CD-ROM! No purchase necessary to enter.

E-mail your entry to: info@multilingualbooks.com

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Talk Now and World Talk CD-ROM Courses
Talk Now is a beginning-level language course on CD-ROM available in over 100 languages from Afrikaans to Zulu, and is excellent for travelers who must pick up a language in a hurry. Available for Windows and Macintosh computers. We recommend the Talk Now! series for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, colors, numbers, food, shopping, time, countries, and so on. World Talk picks up from Talk Now! at an intermediate level, and follows on with over 20 languages in the same format of interactive learning with entertaining games and drills. Find out more about Talk Now courses at our Talk Now page.

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