Re: Multilingual dictionaries

  • From: "milica trpevska" <milica.trpevska@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:01:22 +0200

Hi all
 I am interested in an accessible English-German-English dictionary
software and am writing to the list for an advice for which one is the
best and the most accessible. I will appreciate any kind of advice on
this issue, I am a beginner in German and would like to take intensive
learning courses this summer. Thank you all in advance, Mimi

On 5/27/08, Jerry Neufeld <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good morning folks.
>
> As a professor of linguistics, I began, years ago, to search for software
> that would allow me to move between all the Romance languages with ease,
> software that would incorporate extensive vocabularies and grammatical
> categories. Unable to find anything satisfactorily accessible, I finally
> bought software and modules for French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese for
> UltraLingua, a highly mouse-driven program. Although I took my time to
> script this program, it is now fully accessible, enabling instantaneous
> switching between languages, depending on the language of the word or
> expression in focus.
>
> I have not mentioned this before since I did not believe that my older
> version, 4.3.4, was still available. It turns out that it is. Although
> UltraLingua is now up to version 6.1, from what I have been able to discern,
> the differences between the newer and older versions are primarily cosmetic,
> the newer versions even less accessible than previous ones.
>
> Anyone wishing to obtain these scripts should write to me offline at:
> jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Since my scripts are highly specific to version 4.3.4 of UltraLingua, the
> UltraLingua application must be the same.  My scripts work well in versions
> of JFW 5.x to the most recent, version 9.
>
> Jerry
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