Multilingual Books February Newsletter

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In this issue:

• Feature Article - Researchers update French language learning
• Product News - High Tech Language Tools - Top 10 Products
• Featured Site - Le Patron
• Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products!
• Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers!

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Runs on Windows or Mac. Available in over 100 languages, Talk Now is a great starter course for learning almost any language. It teaches using sounds, pictures, and games. Talk Now also has "speak and repeat" - record and listen to your own voice for fast, sure progress. Ages 8 to adult.
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Movie Talk DVD-ROM Language Courses - Watch, Play, And Learn!
Combining the power of the movies and DVD-ROM technology, EuroTalk brings you an exciting language learning package that really works! Watch full-screen video and play games and exercises that make you remember what you've seen and learnt. Star in one of your favorite videos by joining in the action by recording your voice into the movie. Search for any word used in the script, or compete in a quick-fire TV Quiz. Packages are available for English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Windows and Macintosh DVD-ROM.
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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. Tell Me More Version 6 is available in levels for the beginner or more advanced student, in 5 languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish and ESL.
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1. Platiquemos Spanish Course

2. Multilingual Books FSI Courses - CD and cassette

3. Talk Now CD-ROM Language Courses

4. Tell Me More Language Software

5. Musical Spanish

6. Language Tree Videos

7. Muzzy Childrens Language Courses

8. Language Littles Speaking Dolls

9. Foreign Language Videos

10. Spanish On The Go Preloaded MP3 Player

Last month's quiz:

Make any New Year's resolutions this year? Here are some items you may or may not need to refer to in the coming year. Please supply the English word and language for each of the following:

Cioccolato - Chocolate, Italian
Bière - Beer, French
Pastei - Pie, Dutch
Charuto - Cigar, Portuguese
Heirat - Marriage, German

Congratulations to our winner, Bryan Boyle, and thanks to everyone who entered.

This month's quiz:

This month's language trivia quiz focuses on the English language. Please answer the following:

What is the longest word in English with only one vowel?
This sentence is an example of...
The words "boycott" and "diesel" are examples of what linguistic phemonenon?
Name any word where four letters appear in their alphabetic order, for instance a word containing "wxyz" or "abcd". (Hint: Try around the vowels. There are more of these than you might think.)

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 50 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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Language Associates FSI Digital Editions
The Language Associates Digital Editions are the popular FSI courses in full digital format - all course material is included, but all audio is in MP3 format and all reading material is in PDF format. These courses are considered by many to be the best and most complete language courses available. Get the benefits of full FSI courses with increased portability and substantial savings! Please note that Digital Edition courses require a computer capable of playing MP3s and displaying PDF files. Digital Editions are currently available for French, Arabic, and Iraqi.
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