MobiLearn Announces Version 5 of its Talking Phrasebooks for the Pocket PC

**Chris Leckness** · 04-18-06, 02:50 PM

Award-winning mobile language learning tools for travelers and students

Boston, Massachusetts, April 18, 2006-MobiLearn®, Inc. (www.mobilearn.net), winner of Handango’s 2005 Champion Award for Windows Mobile language products, has introduced Version 5 of its popular Talking Phrasebook series. The phrasebooks enable English speakers to express themselves easily in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Likewise, speakers of these European languages can use the talking phrasebooks to converse in English or—with the multilanguage version—any of the other four languages. The products are designed as just-in-time tools for business travelers, tourists, and students, regardless of their prior fluency. In seconds, you can choose an expression in one language, then see, hear, and repeat it in another language. The translated word or phrase is spoken out loud through the Pocket PC speaker or earphone in a clear professional native voice, recorded in high fidelity. MobiLearn’s talking phrasebooks, long recognized for excellence, also won Pocket PC Magazine’s Best Software Award in 2002 and 2004. In announcing Version 5, Arthur Granville, the company’s president, said "The handheld computer really opens up a new world of mobile, personalized learning, and we’re proud to be recognized as a leader in the development of this exciting new educational technology."

Advanced Learning Features: Search, Sort, Bookmarking, Quiz, Programmable Audio, screen-aware display
With each release, MobiLearn has built on ideas from its customers, adding new features tailored to the practical needs of travelers and students. In Version 5 you can display phrases alphabetically or by topic. A search function quickly finds all the entries that contain specified words or characters. Translations are displayed instantly and can be played aloud with a tap. You can choose to play all selected phrases in one continuous flow, and can set the voice to repeat each phrase up to nine times, to aid practice and memorization. A Bookmark feature lets you flag selected items and save them in a personal category for easy review. In Quiz mode, a colorful knowledge game lets you compete against the clock and your own past record. You can choose to be quizzed within or across categories, and to draw on all items in the database or just the items you haven’t yet mastered, focusing where you need the practice most. The program provides visual and auditory feedback on right and wrong answers and graphically displays your score and elapsed time over the last 50 trials. The historical profile allows you to track your improvement and target your learning. MobiLearn products are screen-aware, allowing display in portrait, landscape, and square formats on devices that support these formats.

Five Phrasebooks, Five Add-on Modules, 2,000-Plus Expressions
MobiLearn offers five core phrasebooks: English-French/French-English, English-German, German-English, English-Italian/Italian-English, English-Spanish/Spanish-English, and a version that combines all five languages (English-French-German-Italian-Spanish). Each phrasebook includes more than 400 essential phrases and terms for travelers and students. There are also five available add-on modules that focus on specific conversational themes: Cuisine ("Which wine do you recommend with this?"), Dating ("Do you come here often?"), Driving ("One-way traffic"), 500 Nouns, and 500 More Nouns. Altogether, each core phrasebook with the full suite of add-ons contains more than 2,000 items, representing a solid foundation of words and phrases basic to language mastery.

Special Talking Spanish Phrasebook for Health Care Professionals
MobiLearn also publishes a specialized phrasebook for health care professionals: MobiLearn Talking Spanish Health Care Phrases from Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. This is a medical interview modeled on the English-Spanish dialogue presented in Taber's Dictionary, a standard reference guide.

Purchases and Inquiries
MobiLearn’s phrasebooks are priced from $34.95. The add-on modules are priced from $19.95. For more information or to download a trial version, visit MobiLearn's Web site, www.mobilearn.net or contact info@mobilearn.net.