Chinese Computer Programs

• Pronunciation Tutor (MAC) Covers the basics of vowel sounds (unaccented, accented, and combinations), consonants, words, phrases, and full sentences. By clicking on the syllables, words, and sentences, a native informant repeats them as many times as the student wishes.

• Survival Manual (MAC) Over 8 megabytes of high-quality, native speaker voice reproduction compressed into four diskettes using Farallon Computer's new Sound-Edit digitized sound compression an real- time decompression technology. More than 600 recorded everyday Chinese words and phrases covering such topics as Food, Hotels, Transportation, Communications, Doctors, Numbers, Clothing, and more, as well as notes about everyday life in China. Includes more than 500 additional non-recorded words and phrases.

• Writing Tutor (MAC) Character basics, signs, radical , exercises. Animal, human, nature, artifact Radicals. Signs that identify, instruct, and prohibit. (MAC)

• Chinese Character Tutor (IBM) A simple program to teach students to write Chinese characters, stroke-by-stroke.

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