Professional Interactive Chinese

with Speech Recognition

The Best Selling Mandarin Chinese Tutorial of its kind, Professional interactive Chinese offers Chinese enthusiasts a wealth of benefits that cannot be obtained from any other product. Equipped with Speech Recognition and Voice Record and Compare, Professional Interactive Chinese is your interactive tutor.

• Speak ... With confidence
Fell comfortable knowing that your speech and Grammar are correct.
• Language Lab for Sentences -- Records and compares your pronunciation of Chinese sentences to a native speaker's
• Language Lab for Characters -- Grades your pronunviation of Characters
• Grammar Notes -- Explain Grammar when you click on characters.
• Listen ... and understand
Build listening comprehension skills by playing recorded conversations of native speakers and learn basic Chinese sounds.
• Main Text -- Plays dialogue of native speakers and displays sentences in Chinese with or without English translation.
• Phonics Flash Cards -- Train your ear to identify the basic sounds in the Chinese language while building your vocabulary.
• Distinguish sounds -- Teach you to identify subtle differences in Chinese sounds and tones.
• Read and write... traditional and simplified characters
Recognize characters, comprehend reading and write correctly with easy to use activities.
• Character Writing -- Teaches the proper stroke sequence and gives feedback on your character writing.
• Interactive Vocabulary Builder -- Teaches key words and conversational vocabulary
• Enjoy ... games that motivate
Lesson reinforcing games constantly encourage you to read and listen to Chinese.
• Find -- Click on the characters the program pronounces
• Falling Characters -- Stack character tiles as they fall to the bottom of the screen
• Dictate -- Arrange characters into correct sequences to form proper Chinese sentences
• ... flexibility in education
Professional Interactive Chinese allows you to learn at your own pace and to schedule lessons at your convenience. Fit lessons into your busy day by practicing Chinese when and where you want. Anyone can steadily advance up to and intensive vocabulary, and key words and phrases. Professional Interactive Chinese effectively assists you in your Language study, whether you use this program as a stand-alone or as an enhancement to language classes.

Full Version	Level I
30 Lessons	12 Lessons
2,000 Characters	1,000 Characters
2 years of College	1 year of College

System Requirements

• IBM PC or compatible (386 DX or higher running Windows 3.0 or higher
• 8 MB RAM recommended
• CD-ROM drive
• MPC compatible sound card with speakers and recording device.
• 13 MB hard drive space available
• SVGA display ( with 256 colors)

FEATURES:

• SPEECH RECOGNITION
Learn proper Mandarin Chinese by getting immediate feedback on your pronunciation while viewing the dialogue in pinyin romanization, phonetic equivalents, and traditional or simplified Chinese characters.
• LESSON DIALOGUE
Listen to discussions in Chinese and get direct English translations, grammar notes and cultural notes. View the dialogue in either traditional or simplified Chinese characters, pinyin romanization or phonetic equivalents.
• CHARACTER WRITING
Learn to write Chinese characters. Character recognition allow you to practice character drawing and test your accuracy. Practice drawing traditional or simplified characters or phonetic equivalents and print exercise sheets.
• ANIMATION ARTICULATION
• Animated visual displays and voice explanations show correct mouth and tongue positions for proper pronunciation and articulation of Chinese sounds.
• INTERACTIVE VOCABULARY BUILDER
• Study new words, characters and sounds in context, by viewing scenes while you strengthen your vocabulary without using tedious lists.
• TRANSLATION RELAY
• Learn the proper pronunciation of words and phrases found in text or phrase books by typing in the pinyin
• romanization and the program will correctly pronounce them for you.
• CULTURE POINTS
• View scenes from contemporary China while learning about different aspects of the Chinese culture.
• GAMES
• Practice new material in a fun, familiar way, while reinforcing basic character recognition, pronunciation, phonetics and sentence patterns.
• FUN!
• You'll enjoy learning with Games and Interactive Exercises which help you build associations between characters, sounds. and English meanings.
• EASY!
• Activities are presented in an Icon Format with Context Sensitive Help.
• COMPREHENSIVE!

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For further information, please send e-mail to :comstar@gy.com