Transparent Language, Inc. Products - French

Transparent French Complete Edition

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:49:04 -0600

The Transparent French Complete Edition is an entire comprehensive language course in one affordable package. Experience a full range of multimedia tools including computer programs, online resources, mp3 files, audio lessons, and more. Explore lessons, games, immersion videos, virtual environments, and stories as you achieve Complete French proficiency.

With Transparent French Complete Edition, you get a powerful and flexible language learning solution in one affordable package. Whether you prefer audio courses, reading, immersion, or conversational practice, Complete will lead you to French proficiency in no time.

Start by rapidly building your vocabulary base with our acclaimed Byki Deluxe. Byki’s memory algorithm technology will tailor your learning based on your own strengths and weaknesses. Record your voice and compare it alongside native speaker audio. Play games, take quizzes, and track your progress; Byki’s a language-learning powerhouse!

Take your learning on the road with Everywhere French audio lessons. Take advantage of “lost” time in your car, at the gym, or just around the house to speed the learning process.

Develop your written and verbal skills with the Transparent French Premium Edition, a full course with lesson plans to develop your conversational skills. Native language texts, videos, and stories immerse you in the French language. Premium will condition you to communicate without having to think about it - just like you do in English.

Instantly access over 65,000 French words and their English equivalents. As you practice French, you may run across an unfamiliar word here and there. Lexicon Translation Dictionary won’t let that slow you down!

Explore 30 virtual reality scenarios in LinguaMatch French. Learn the words for common, every-day objects, and click on the characters you meet to learn more conversational phrases.

Transparent French Complete Edition will help you:

Rapidly build and retain a large vocabulary base

Test yourself with games and quizzes

Develop listening comprehension

Learn to read and write in French

Learn to express yourself freely in spoken French

You’ll begin by building vocabulary and phrase knowledge with Quick Start Lists designed to get you up and running with the MOST crucial words and phrases so that you can become functional in your new language as quickly as possible. You’ll then learn thousands of other words and phrases, including the following topics:

Taking a taxi

Asking for directions

At the restaurant

Traveling

Meeting and greeting

Emergencies

Translation facilitation

Numbers: ordinal and cardinal

Asking the time

Weather and seasons

Shopping and bargaining

Once you’ve got the vocabulary, dive into Transparent French Premium Edition and LinguaMatch to learn structured sentences and conversation. Sample lesson content includes:

French beginner lessons

Irregular verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions

Expressing duration with the present tense

How to form a question

Idiomatic expressions with 'venir de…'

Talking about prices and clothing

The cuisine of Provence

As you progress through Complete’s content, you’ll be able to call upon the large vocabulary base you’ve built and your developing conversational skills, and suddenly find yourself communicating without a script.

In other words, you’ll be speaking French!

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Try our products for up to 6 months, and if you’re not satisfied, we’ll give you a full refund. That's the Transparent Language Risk-Free Guarantee!

System Requirements

Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista or higher.

iPod® or MP3 Player for Byki Pod files: iPod Video or nano required to display pictures and play sounds. Other MP3 players can play sounds, but may not support picture display.

Everywhere French Audio Course

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:59:58 -0600

Everywhere French

35 lessons for beginner to intermediate learners
Over 5 hours of audio content - choose from CD or MP3 download formats
SPECIAL BONUS - Includes companion Byki vocabulary lists and software

Learning a new language is a rich and rewarding experience, but it takes time. If you are like many learners, finding the time to work with your new language is often more challenging than the language itself. Everywhere French is an audio course that is designed for learners on the go. Expand your learning time - in the car, at the gym or just around the house - with Everywhere French.

Lessons begin with vocabulary and grammar overview, followed by practical, real-life dialogs that build your French speaking and listening skills.

English speaking instructors guide you through each of the 35 lessons. Native French speakers provide examples of dialogs. You simply listen and repeat. It’s as easy as that.

When you have the opportunity to use your computer, revisit the vocabulary and phrases you heard in Everywhere French. The same great material on the audio portion can be studied on your computer using our acclaimed Byki 4 flash card program.

Byki works with Everywhere to make your learning permanent using proven memory algorithm technology. Together, Byki and Everywhere make an unstoppable team and an invaluable addition to your learning efforts!

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Try our products for up to 6 months, and if you’ re not satisfied, we’ll give you a full refund. That's the Transparent Language Risk-Free Guarantee!

System Requirements

Windows: Bonus software requires Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista or higher.

Macintosh: Bonus software requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or higher with Safari.

iPod® or MP3 Player required to play MP3 files.

Transparent French Premium Edition

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:31:39 -0600

Transparent French Premium Edition is an immersion course that enables learners to take basic vocabulary and quickly progress to more advanced comprehension and use. Grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, and conversation practice are emphasized through French texts, videos, and stories.

What do I get?

Transparent French Premium Edition is a full language course with a lesson plan designed to develop your conversational fluency in a new language. The Transparent Premium learning system features:

An intuitive “book interface” format

Lessons covering over 15,000 French words and phrases

Full-motion immersion video

Native speaker audio

Interactive conversation practice with play-back

MP3 audio for iPods and other players

Interactive games

Online proficiency tests

Personal progress tracking

Each lesson follows a simple and effective three-step process:

Build your vocabulary base with the integrated Byki learning engine. Create custom vocabulary lists from Premium’s lesson content.

Explore native language texts, videos, and stories as you immerse yourself in the French language.

Produce spoken French by participating in conversational role-plays and dialogs. Record your lines, then play the entire conversation back.

What will I learn?

Transparent French Premium Edition will help you:

Rapidly build and retain a French vocabulary base

Develop listening comprehension

Learn to read and write in French

Learn to express yourself in spoken French

As you progress through Premium’s lessons, you’ll find yourself communicating in French without having to think about it – just like you do in English!

Sample lesson content includes:

Irregular verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions

Expressing duration with the present tense

How to form a question

Talking about prices and clothing

The cuisine of Provence

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Try our products for up to 6 months, and if you’re not satisfied, we’ll give you a full refund. That's the Transparent Language Risk-Free Guarantee!

System Requirements

Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista or higher.

Macintosh: Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or higher with Safari.

iPod® or MP3 Player for Byki Pod files: iPod Video or nano required to display pictures and play sounds. Other MP3 players can play sounds, but may not support picture display.

French Byki Deluxe 4

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45:55 -0600

French Byki Deluxe will teach you 2000 critical words and 500 phrases with an easy, addictive, and lightning-fast 3-step process. Play games, perfect your accent with native speaker sound, test yourself, and take your learning with you on MP3 audio. Learn French Fast. Know It Forever!

Learn it FAST Know it FOREVER Use it EVERYWHERE

Learn written and spoken language with a rapid 3-step process

Over 2,000 words and 500 phrases

Personalized learning sessions to speed your progress

Images and native speaker sound

Learn critical phrases early with QuickStart

Recognize spoken words faster with SlowSound

Lock words and phrases into your permanent memory

Maintain your knowledge with Intelligent Refresh

Track your progress with comprehensive testing

Perfect your accent with pronunciation practice

Cement your knowledge with games and activities

Learn thousands of extra words and phrases online at ListCentral

Create and share word lists with users around the world

MP3 audio for your iPod or other mobile player

Printable flashcards

Secret Language Hack: The Shortcut to Learning it Fast

Experts agree that the most important part of learning a language is rapidly building a foundation of word and phrase knowledge. Byki is the fastest, most direct path to that goal — it “hacks” into your memory and fills it with foreign words and phrases. Whereas traditional learning methods spread their learning out across a multitude of lessons and activities, Byki gets right down to business with a proven three step process:

Byki guides you through a review of the French material you will learn.

Byki teaches you to recognize the written and spoken forms of each word.

Finally, you will be able to express yourself in French by speaking or writing it on your own.

In just your first session, the byki 3-step process will teach you 100 critical Quickstart phrases for use in common, real-life situations.

How much French have you forgotten?

Maybe you've studied French or another language before. If so, do you remember everything you learned? Using Byki ensures that you'll keep everything you learn in your long-term memory, forever. As you use the three step process, Byki will keep track of what you learn and use its Intelligent Refresh system to help you review the items you might forget along the way. Lots of language products provide a means to learn French. Only Byki makes that knowledge permanent.

Byki knows what you need...

Most products take a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching languages. Byki provides a personalized path to success based on your own strengths and weaknesses. It recognizes the material you learn quickly and takes note of those items that give you more trouble. Byki then maximizes the time you dedicate to language learning by focusing your efforts on the items that you find more challenging, without wasting your time on those you learn with ease.

You will see how well the Byki personalized learning system works as you track your progress through Learned Items charting and multiple testing options, including written, listening comprehension, dictation and more. Additional games and activities will provide a fun way to cement your knowledge and pronunciation practice will help perfect your accent.

Goin' Mobile...

More than just software, Byki comes with a full set of features for learning away from your computer. BykiPod MP3 audio files work with your iPod or other MP3 player. Printable flash cards let you take your learning on the go and learn French anywhere.

Beyond the desktop...

Byki isn't just a set of content. It's a tool. Once you finish learning the 2000 words and 500 phrases included in Byki Deluxe, you can keep using Byki to learn any content you can imagine. Create vocabulary lists from textbooks or dictionaries. Study key phrases you find in articles, videos, or the web. The possibilities are endless for creating your own Byki lists.

Once you've made some Byki lists, share them with our online community at Byki.com ListCentral. ListCentral also provides a great resource for finding additional learning materials in dozens of languages posted by Byki users from all over the world.

System Requirements
Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista or higher.

Mac: Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or higher with Safari

KidSpeak 6-in-1 World Pack

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:39:02 -0500

"A child taught a second language after the age of 10 or so is unlikely ever to speak it like a native."
-Geoffrey Cowley, “The Language Explosion,” Newsweek, Spring-Summer 1997

Your early decision to use KidSpeak will change someone's life.

You should have had KidSpeak when you were young. Children absorb language at a much faster pace than adults, and those exposed to bilingualism early in their lives are lightyears ahead of their peers later in life when it comes to speaking a second language. The window is short, and KidSpeak, designed for children aged 5 to 13, offers parents an interactive, entertaining solution for preparing their child for a multilingual future while the time is right.
KidSpeak 6-in-1 World Pack includes full learning suites for Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hebrew, and Japanese.

Critical skills, learned at a critical age.

KidSpeak includes over 700 words and expressions, as well as over 40 activities that teach and reinforce dozens of vital developmental skills spanning 3 levels of difficulty:

Pronunciation of language
Recognizing alphabets
Recognizing words
Understanding simple sentences
The difference between singular and plural
Telling time
Matching numbers to words
Simple addition and subtraction
Music appreciation
(And a lot more!)

Topics covered in the language department include:

Greetings
Clothing
Foods, like fruits and vegetables
Numbers
Animals
Dates and times
Colors
Parts of the body
Household items
School
Sports
Weather
Plus! Each KidSpeak language includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce language-learning!

The best part is... it's fun.

If KidSpeak wasn't fun, it wouldn't work. Funny, friendly, personable characters from kids to farm animals lead the way for your children, always available to help or provide a little comic relief. The activities are guaranteed to occupy any curious youngster for hours at a time (they even occupy us) and the program couldn't be easier to use. Join in the fun or let your little one run wild on their own... there's no limit to the ways KidSpeak can be used to help your child grow into a healthy, bilingual world citizen.

Don't miss out. Try KidSpeak today (hint: not by yourself)!

System Requirements
Windows: Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, or Vista; 8 MB available RAM.

KidSpeak French

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:36:09 -0500

Yes! Now Your Child Really Can Learn French

KidSpeak is a language–learning breakthrough that makes learning a second language easy for kids of all ages. Your children will love the delightful combination of enjoyable animation, fun activities, and interactive games, puzzles and songs that make up this award-winning educational software program. It's the perfect way to get your kids started with a new language.

Your Child Will Learn These Vital Language skills

Correct pronunciation
Alphabet recognition
Word recognition
Understanding simple sentences
Using plural forms
Using singular forms
Telling time
Matching numbers to written words
Simple addition
Simple subtraction

Over 700 Words and Expressions

Greetings
Types of Clothing
Fruits and vegetables
Numbers
Animal names
Dates and times
Colors
Parts of the body
Everyday items
School supplies
Sporting goods
Weather terms

Plus! Each KidSpeak language includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce learning.

Award-winning Educational Software

KidSpeak was designed and developed by leading educators to take advantage of the intuitive language learning abilities of grade school children. KidSpeak's innovative award-winning approach has no drills, tests or anything unpleasant. Children simply look forward to "playing" with their animated friends every day, while you know they are "learning".

Awards

New York Festival's Interactive Multimedia Competition for the Best Educational/Instructional Programs Produced for use in Schools

K-12 Educational CD-ROM award at the 4th Annual International Digital Media Awards

"The designers have achieved their aim of making the program fun, challenging, absorbing and entertaining" - The Age, November 1997

The Sooner A Child Starts Learning A New Language The Better – Here's Why
It's a fact. Researchers have proven that children more easily and naturally acquire a second language when they're young. After that, it gets increasingly difficult. Plus, studies show that children who have the benefit of a second language develop stronger problem solving and analytical skills – a benefit for a lifetime.

Here's What Can You Do

As a parent, if you want your child to take advantage of the language-learning "window of opportunity," you must take an active role. And there is no better tool than your computer and KidSpeak to start your child on a second language. With KidSpeak, your child can interact with authentic foreign language sounds, words and phrases, games, puzzles, and songs. If you can place a disc in your computer's CD-ROM drive, you know all you need to know to get your child off and running in another language.

REQUIREMENTS
Windows - Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, or Vista; 8 MB available RAM.

It really works!

Your child will build a solid foreign language foundation using the successful immersion approach preferred by educators. Each language is hosted by a fun cartoon "friend" and his or her playful pet who use only the language being taught. Your child simply points and clicks.

With KidSpeak, your child will automatically learn correct pronunciation, alphabet and word recognition, simple sentence structure, plural and singular forms, numbers, simple addition and subtraction, how to tell time, and much more.

Of course help in English is always available by clicking
on the question mark.

LinguaMatch Panoramic French

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:36:30 -0600

Enhance your knowledge with Real-World practice!
For school, for business, for travel, for fun . . . the Panoramic French Talking Phrase Book (for Windows) uses multimedia technology to make learning French easy, addictive, and effective!

Panoramic French is an educational and reference system for studying French, based on the concept of a talking picture phrasebook. Panoramic French can be used equally well as an amazingly easy guide for beginners, a powerful learning tool for intermediate students, a useful refresher course for advanced speakers, and a reference for international travelers.

Explore your way to a better understanding of French!

Panoramic's 30 topic areas are presented in lush 3D scenes. You can travel around each scene using your keyboard and mouse. As you move through the Panoramic world, you can click on any object to see and hear its name in French. Click on the people you meet to learn conversational phrases. You can easily travel between different scenes to see how the words and phrases you are learning are used in different contexts.

Panoramic's LinguaMatch dictionary - verified and approved by staff from the Institut Français - contains more than 2000 words and 1200 phrases covering most common subjects, such as travel (by air, by rail, by car), lodging, restaurants, telephone and mail, banking, shopping, doctors and pharmacy, time, weather, everyday sayings, and more.

Built-in word games, puzzles, and pronunciation tools add even more fun to your learning!

Panoramic French includes carefully chosen drills and games to increase the program's learning effectiveness:
enhance your vocabulary
learn to recognize written and spoken words
enhance your listening comprehension
learn how to use new words in complete sentences
and more!

Panoramic's integrated progress tracking even lets you chart your progress through the program's vocabulary and activities.
Plus, the built-in Recording Session features voice recording and visualized playback, enabling you to record your own speech and to compare it with the native speakers' voices in the program. You can even choose between male and female voices, as you prefer.

REQUIREMENTS
Windows - Windows XP SP2, Vista, or higher; 128 MB available RAM.

Lexicon French Dictionary

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:15:57 -0500

The Lexicon Translation Dictionary is a fast, easy-to-use language reference for Windows that quickly provides word translations with a simple click of the mouse. Get instant access to over 65,000 terms for general use or specific domains in French.
Use in foreign correspondence

Great reference for students

Find the right word, quickly

The Lexicon Translation Dictionary includes all the words you need to communicate in everyday situations as well as technical terms for specific areas including:
Science

Agriculture

Business

Transportation

and more

System requirements:
Windows: Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, Me, or XP; Pentium processor; 128 MB available RAM; 90MB disk space for single language pairs or 250 MB disk space for multilingual version; 2X CD-ROM for CD version.

Learn it FAST	Know it FOREVER	Use it EVERYWHERE
Learn written and spoken language with a rapid 3-step process Over 2,000 words and 500 phrases Personalized learning sessions to speed your progress Images and native speaker sound Learn critical phrases early with QuickStart Recognize spoken words faster with SlowSound	Lock words and phrases into your permanent memory Maintain your knowledge with Intelligent Refresh Track your progress with comprehensive testing Perfect your accent with pronunciation practice Cement your knowledge with games and activities	Learn thousands of extra words and phrases online at ListCentral Create and share word lists with users around the world MP3 audio for your iPod or other mobile player Printable flashcards