MobiLearn Talking Phrasebook Add-on: Nouns 102, English-French-German-Italian-Spanish

A seamless add-on to the MobiLearn(R) Talking Phrasebook The Nouns 102 module adds a basic vocabulary to Version 5 of the MobiLearn(R) English-French-German-Italian-Spanish Talking Phrasebook. These nouns are the names of people, places, and things most essential to everyday conversation. When this add-on module is installed on a Pocket PC that contains the required Talking Phrasebook, Nouns 102 becomes a new subcategory under the Conversation category. This is one in a series of six Nouns add-ons which are arranged roughly as they would be in a three-year sequence of academic semesters: 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302. Altogether, these six add-ons contain over 1,000 essential vocabulary words. For greatest efficiency, we recommend that you install this program on a CF or SD storage card. Nouns 101 includes terms for family relationships, parts of the body, basic clothing, simple household items, recreational activities and weather. Nouns 102 includes terms related to personal grooming, office activities, shopping, common animals, objects in nature, and basic colors.Nouns 201 includes terms related to school activities, basic occupations, recreation, and simple geographical features.Nouns 202 includes terms related to emotions, travel, and other basics of everyday life.Nouns 301 includes basic terms related to cuisine and measures of size, weight, and distance.Nouns 302 includes terms related to consumer electronics, computer technology, health, nations, cities, and languages.Key Features Integrates seamlessly with your existing MobiLearn Phrasebook Contains about 175 parallel English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish nouns essential to a solid vocabulary in these languages.Displays the nouns in any of the five languages by topic or alphabetically. Instantly shows the written translation of any chosen English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish noun in any of the other languages. Speaks the translated noun out loud in a clear native voice. Repeats the pronunciation automatically according to your preferences, to aid practice and memorization. At your option, plays all selected phrases aloud in a continuous flow.Saves selected phrases in a personal Bookmarks category.In Quiz mode, lets you test your knowledge and track your progress over time.How It Works Suppose you want to learn to say "afternoon" in Spanish:On the home screen, select English-Spanish as the (From)-(To) languages. Tap the Conversation icon. In the Conversation list, tap the Nouns 102 category. Scroll through the Nouns 102 word list and tap "afternoon."You'll see the Spanish equivalent, "la tarde," in the gold translation window. To hear it out loud, tap the translation window. Then just repeat what you hear to pronounce the term in natural Spanish. To do the same in German, select English-German, then repeat the steps you followed for Spanish. You'll see the parallel German noun, "der Nachmittag," in the gold translation window. To hear it out loud, tap the translation window. You can do likewise to hear and speak the equivalent French and Italian nouns. To translate in the other direction--say, German to English--select German-English as the (From)-(To) languages, then proceed in the same way.This add-on module requires the MobiLearn Talking Phrasebook (English-French-German-Italian-Spanish), Version 5.0 or higher, as a foundation. For further language tools in this series, see MobiLearn's other add-on modules: Nouns 101, Nouns 201, Nouns 202, Nouns 301, Nouns 302, Cuisine, Dating, and Driving.

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