Language Learning Aprendizaje Idiomas - WordsGalore

MODULE REVIEW


FLASH CARDS


STUDENT TESTING


Spanish, English, Chinese, Korean
Flash Cards, MP3 Creator, Student Testing

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Works on Windows (95, 98, 2000, Me, Vista) and Linux if you use Wine and place MSVBVM60.DLL in system32 folder. OSx users of Wine:you may need to switch on "winxp" "vb6run" "vb5run" "unifont" and "l3codecx". Computers with non-european character sets may need to use control panel to switch to the English language pack. Matthias Ansorg has instructions for using on Linux and will be working to get the words ported to a Linux flashcard. He motivated me to give it a Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons License
All programs and sound files and the spanish text files are by Scott Roberts and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Provide a clearly visible reference and, if possible, link to WordGalore.com when using any of this content.

For those who can look "behind the scenes" at the plain text and sound files that support this program, you should be able to create word and sentence lists, use the existing ones, and record your own word and sentence lists. The program and ALL the files it uses are usually located on your computer at c:program fileswordsgalore. The program is really just a "skin" following a simple protocol for the text and mp3 sound files. Any other program could be written to create access the files this program creates and uses. But the program as it is makes recording sound files FAST even if you don't have any programming skills, removing silence before and after the speech. A 10,000 word language or an entire book can be added to the program as fast as the speaker can read, once the text files are created and placed in the proper folder.

Important bug: Most of the time if you try to move a "known" word back to the "unknown" list by double-clicking the word, it will forget all the words you marked as known. This is a minor distaster, causing the user to lose a lot of work. There are other ways this will unexpectedly periodically happen. So periodically back up your word lists to different folders. They are located in c:program fileswordsgalore and look for your username as a folder that is storing your lists.

Scott Roberts
scott@heelspurs.com
January 2006