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Collins Talking French-English Dictionary

by Intense Educational
Platform:   Windows XP / NT / 98 / 95 / Me / 2000
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Windows XP / NT / 98 / 95 / Me / 2000
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • For beginner to advanced, as well as professional and business users
  • Tools for speedy and accurate translation of any text on your computer
  • Over 80,000 words and phrases and more than 120,000 translations
  • Can be used with any other computer application to translate words and phrases
  • Crosswords, Statistics, Shooting Gallery, AudioPad
  • More than 80,000 words and 120,000 translations
  • Can be used with any other computer application
  • Listens for the correct pronunciation of words
  • Records and graphs the user's progress
  • Crosswords and other learning exercises

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  • ASIN: B00004WZTQ
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,504 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Collins Talking French-English Dictionary

Collins Talking French-English Dictionary

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
This software will be helpful for anyone who needs to use the French or English – students from beginner to advanced level, as well as professional and business users who need it at work. Now you can have the highest quality bilingual dictionary always to hand. The dictionary comes with a set of tools for speedy and accurate look-up of any words or phrases on your computer.

Intense Language Office incorporates the very latest computer-based learning exercises which enable you to increase your English vocabulary more quickly than with traditional methods. You can gradually build up your vocabulary using sets of 500 / 1,000 / 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 / 3,000 most common words.

Vocabulary
Over 80,000 words and phrases
Over 120,000 translations
The voices of professional native speakers are used in the audio recordings. The variety of settings and levels makes the software simple and straightforward to use. The dictionary can be used with any other computer application to translate words and phrases, as well as for listening to the correct pronunciation of French and English words.

Crosswords
Doing crosswords is the best way to increase your vocabulary in no time

Statistics
Your progress is monitored and displayed with helpful graphics

Shooting Gallery
This entertaining and dynamic exercise enables you to not only memorize the words you need but also type them correctly

AudioPad
Practise and perfect your pronunciation with the help of professionals.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly Brilliant, 1 Aug 2001
This is an EXCELLENT tool for those of us trying to boost our French vocabulary. Every word has a sound file so you can hear the correct pronunciation and there are plenty of example usages. The sound file for the entire dictionary can be loaded onto the hard drive of your PC for faster replay times(although they take up 250MB each!)

The games look a bit daft at first, but they really work, which I suppose is the main thing.

My only criticisms are that the user interface is somewhat non-standard and a bit haphazard to navigate, and the "shooting gallery" game (my favourite) could be tricky for someone who can't touch type.

Overall though, it does what it says, and it does it well. Fix the gripes and it'd be worth 5 stars.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Incredible - adj. incroyable!, 2 April 2001
By A Customer
Already a fan of the Collins English-French dictionary on my Psion Revo (EPOC), I had no doubts that the talking version would be a useful learning tool. I was wrong - it is a brilliant learning tool!

The words are found very quickly as you enter them, so you don't have to type with the speed of light as you do on the Revo. The use of colour makes it easy to pick out the relevant bits from the text and clicking on the speaker will either produce a pronounciation, or you can open the Audio-Pad. This shows a graphic display of the French speaker's voice and you can either listen to the him saying the word or record yourself and compare your pronounciation with that of the French speaker.

I am in the throes of the 1st year of three of a Diploma in French with the Open University and find the Memo-Pad invaluable. I enter all the vocabulary into a Memo-Pad, one for each chapter of the text books. Then I go into the Shooting Gallery which displays the words in English and gives you a few seconds in which to type in the responses. Points are deducted for failures and it then keeps giving you the word until it thinks you know it. The only drawback is that I haven't found a way of printing out the contents of the Memo-Pads so that they can be learned on the tube or in the smallest room!

My fellow students are obviously also impressed (judging by the number of them who wrote down the details)...

A bientot! Samantha Covington

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely cracking, 15 Nov 2002
By Ken McMullan (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Now, I may be biased, becasue all I was expecting was something where I enter a word in French/English and it translates it, but this package has games too. (Of course they only work if they are used!)
The sound files are large, so it's probably best not to install them, but in this case they can be accessed from the CD. Since the package will run fine without the CD, it is possible to have a French audio CD in the drive and do oral practice with the dictionary open. If the French sound files are required while you have a different CD inthe drive, they can be installed, but will eat up 600Mb of disk space.
Probably the most useful feature is the notepad into which can be pasted a whole passage. If the reader finds an unfamiliar word, simply clicking on it displays a definition and translation.
The only downside to the package is that it doesn't appear possible to make a custom wordlist for crosswords, but, considering that all I wanted was a dictionary, who am I to complain? (Note to the author: Could we see an update for this, maybe?)
This package may save my A/S level French - I really hate flicking through dictionaries!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better...
I've found this a valuable tool to have installed on my laptop. The "trap" feature which allows you to highlight text and drag it into a box for translation in the dictionary is... Read more
Published on 20 May 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, there are gliches but...
...it's the best learning tool I've ever used. People seem wary of the crosswords, but I think they're the best part of it, although the always-on-top dictionary is great, and... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Am I the only one taken in?
Reading the reviews and the blurb on the product you'd think you could just press the button and your word document or email would be automatically translated. No such luck. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2003 by MR TREVOR WOOLNOUGH

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent learning tool
Works really well for me, learning french in france, need to look up vocab all the time .... no more scrabbling about in dictionaries, and the pronunciation guide is... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2002 by James L

1.0 out of 5 stars A curate's egg
Having read the previous reviews of this product, I enthusiastically invested in a copy of the software to use at home. Read more
Published on 25 Jul 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars The more I use it the more I like it!
I have to upgrade my previous review - I am finding this to be an excellent dictionary and we use the speaker a lot for those tricky pronounciations! Buy it!
Published on 19 Jun 2001 by Samantha Covington

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