TeLL me More Chinese - Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced | 336 MB

Tell Me More, the world's leading software for language learning, is valued by users and teachers alike for its speech recognition technology and personalized language courses. Tell Me More now counts more than five million satisfied users worldwide. Global leading organizations have placed their trust in Tell Me More, including the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Government, the FBI, the Canadian Federal Government, EDS, BMW, Carnival Cruise Lines, Mercedes, and more. Used everyday in more than 10,000 academic institutions, this latest version evaluates your progress as you learn, and uses your results to suggest the activities and exercises best suited to your needs, just as a teacher would. The package includes levels Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, and contains more than 1,500 exercises.

Developed in collaboration with INALCO (National Institute of Languages and Oriental Civilizations), Tell Me More Chinese is the first language method based on speech recognition technology that is able to recognize the four tones of Mandarin Chinese. Tell Me More Chinese introduces the standard Chinese used in newspapers, television, and radio broadcasts throughout the People's Republic of China. The Pinyin romanization system, a crucial learning tool for beginners, is used to familiarize students with the pronunciation and recognition of essential simplified characters. With Tell Me More you will learn Chinese mastering:

Over 800 basic characters

Listening and written comprehension

Pronunciation

Written expression and grammar

300 hours of Chinese learning with more than 1,500 exercises:

Interactive Dialogues

Use your computer to practice speaking in an interactive manner and to perfect your pronunciation, with over 1,500 words and phrases taken from the dialogues. The dialogues are based on everyday conversation and are supplemented by 400 photos illustrating Chinese culture.

Glossary

Learn Chinese vocabulary with a glossary including more than 3,000 recorded words.

Grammar

Consult 30 key grammar points, presented in a clear and concise manner.

Over 1,500 exercises to learn Chinese

Enhance your knowledge and understanding of the course with a wide range of writing and listening activities, related to the grammar and vocabulary points covered in the lessons:

Picture/word association

Word association: Chinese/Pinyin

Word association: Chinese/English

Word association: Chinese/Chinese

The right word

Fill-in-the-blanks

Mystery phrase

Word order

Dictation

Crossword puzzles

System Requirements:

PC or compatible: Pentium® Windows® 95/98 16 MB RAM 90 MB available on hard disk 4 X CD-ROM drive 16-bit Windows®-compatible sound card 640 x 480 256-colour graphics card headset or speakers and microphone (free headset and microphone is included)Windows® 95 and NT4 require Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4 or more.