SlovoEd Palm dictionary is your mobile dictionary, personal language tutor and language laboratory! Every time and everywhere you can not only translate words in any form, but also enrich your active vocabulary and improve your pronunciation!
- Find more ways to improve you grammatical skills with SlovoEd dictionary! There are transcriptions, base lexical morphology information and irregular verbs table (for English) in most of the dictionaries.
- Improve you pronunciation while reading the transcriptions and listening to the voice samples.
- Learn the new words with two methods specially designed for language learners: "Flash Card Quiz” and “Word of the Day”.
Get more from the dictionary with advanced SlovoEd features set.
Morphology Module
for English, Spanish and Russian languages
Morphology Module is the newest feature included in SlovoEd dictionary for
Palm OS. With the help of Morphology Module you can get the translation of the words
entered in any form. (For example, if you use plural nouns and adjectives, different
verb forms and so on).
Most of the words you come across in the text are occur in various morphological forms. So the Morphology Module allows you to use the Resident Mode of the dictionary more effectively when working with foreign literature and will be useful for those users who have just begun learning language.
Compatibility:
Morphology Modules are supported on all Palm OS 5.0 devices.
Sound Module
for English, French, German, Spanish and Italian
Sound Modules enable you to listen to pre-recorded native speakers’ pronunciation of the words that dictionary contains. Sound modules are provided now for English, German, Spanish, French and Italian languages.
Sound Module is included in all Talking dictionaries by default.
If you have purchased the dictionary without Sound Module you can install it additionally anytime. Sound modules are available for the full Deluxe versions (20 000 words) as well as for Compact versions (5 000 words) that contain only the most frequently used word pronunciations.
Sound Module
Compatibility:
Sound Modules for SlovoEd dictionary are supported on Palm OS 5.0
devices except Tungsten T, Zire 22 and Sony Clie devices.
Resident Mode
Resident mode is the usage mode of the dictionary that allows you to get the
translation while working in another application, without exiting the program you
are working in. To view the translation select the word, and invoke the Resident
using one of the methods described in the section "Resident options" in the SlovoEd
dictionary menu.
The Resident window will appear in the bottom of the screen. If the word you are looking for is present in the dictionary, you will see its translation. Otherwise, the words that are close to this word in the dictionary list or its base form from Morphology Module will be shown.
Learning tools
Irregular verbs table
A table of irregular verbs with several sorting options is available in
English dictionaries. Knowing only one form of the verb you will be able to find the
others quickly. Several sorting possibilities will help to find the verb form you need.
Word of the Day
Word of the Day is another word-learning option of the program. Each day a
word is chosen at random from the dictionary and shown on the start of the program.
Word of the Day gives you an opportunity to learn a new word each day without having
to select it from the dictionary wordlist.
Flash Cards Quiz
Flash Cards Quiz enables you to add new words to flash cards and pass a quiz
on them. You can pass a quiz as many times as you wish. On the basis of statistics
the program will decide what words you have learned. The more you give the right
translation of the certain word, the less you will be asked to translate this word.
Dictionary editor
You can modify the dictionary databases of the SlovoEd program by adding new entries
or editing the existing entries with the build-in dictionary editor. All you need is
to select “Add/Edit entry” option in the dictionary menu. The procedure of adding an
entry is similar to the procedure of editing an entry. The only difference is that
when you add a new entry you will be prompted to type in the entry title before you
proceed to the window where you can edit the text of the entry.
In order to create your personal word data base and use it with other SlovoEd
dictionaries you can use our special utility SlovoEd Studio .
Interface features
SlovoEd dictionary for Palm OS interface is available in English, Spanish,
German, French, Italian, Dutch, Greek and Russian. You are enabled to switch
interface language "in passing", without re-installation of SlovoEd dictionary
engine. You can also choose one of five color schemes and set the appropriate font
size of the SlovoEd dictionary article.
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