German Computer Programs

• Passive voice Tutor (MAC) Two diskettes covering present, simple past, present perfect, past perfect, future, and subjunctive tensed. Also covers models, subordinate clauses, and more built-in multi- grammatical exercises; includes practice with cases, weak nouns, singular and plural forms of nouns and pronouns, and above all, word order.

• 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 and language Laboratory (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 German words and phrases covering such topics as Food, Hotels, Transportation, Communications, Doctors, Numbers, Clothing, and more, as well as notes about everyday life in Germany. Includes more than 500 additional non-recorded words and phrases.

• Verb Tutor (with sound) (MAC) With all 200 sentences recorded in high quality, native - speaker voice reproduction. Click on a button and hear the sentence pronounced. Ideal for working on oral comprehension skills as well as verb conjugations. The sentences comprise over 1,600 words with an average sentence length of 9 words. These are not simple little three-word sentences but lengthy, real life everyday conversational type phrases.

• Tense Tutor (MAC) A companion program to the Verb Tutor With Sound. Drills on 200 additional sentences, all read in high quality digitized sound by a native speaker. Whereas the Verb Tutor tests on all tenses of a single verb, tense tutor allows user to select the tense he wants to be drilled on and then drills him on many verbs in that same tense. It is totally user modifiable. You can change the sentences it comes with, delete them, add new verbs and sentences; modify, delete and add translations and explanations as well. Add conjugations for the new words.

• Word Torture (MAC) Automated vocabulary drills. Comes with from 1400 to 1600 verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, etc. Use as drill and type in the translations, or use as flash cards. Program can keep score and redrill on missed words. You can create drill sets of different sizes. Drill from target language to English or English to target language. Random generation assures that words will never appear in the same order (unless you want them to be). Set the time interval between seeing the word and its translation. Can be user modified; add more words to those that come with the stack.

• PICS Listening Tool (IBM) A computer controlled video disc workshop designed to tutor language students with carefully picked foreign movies, TV shows and commercials. A video disc player containing French, German, or Spanish videos is connected to a microcomputer to control viewing from different chapters to scene by scene viewing, to frame by frame viewing. This control is provided to step through the video sentence by sentence allowing careful listening of each sentence and comprehending each meaning. The application also provides a number of lecturing tools for the student and/or teacher to use: sentence by sentence play, keyword on demand, transcript on demand, alternate soundtrack (used to provide a slower more pronounced soundtrack of the dialogue), listen-then-read, preview via images, video before audio, audio before video. The teacher may use this application to make a presentation for a lecture or the student may use this application to practice on his or her own. The following is a list of videos available with the videodisc and computer workstations.

German Videodiscs

• Deutschlandspiegel: PICS platte I & II (IBM) Contains four segments per side with a broad range of topics. Three versions of each segment are presented: 1)unsubtitled; 2)German subtitles of the original soundtrack; and 3)German subtitles of an alternate soundtrack prepared by the Goethe institute specifically for students of German. The segments are: - Die Hollentalbahn - Burg Eltz - Ballet-Internat Salzau - 40 Jahre DM - Der erste Schultag - Die insel Fehmarn - FC St. Pauli - Faszination Segelfliegen 60 minutes.

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