Spanish Wordsgalore description
Spanish Wordsgalore - Learn Spanish by sound-based flash cards

Spanish Wordsgalore will allow you to learn up to 9,100 Spanish words using text and sound flash cards and word lists.It remembers which words you've marked as "known" so that they are removed from your rotation list.

Spanish WordsGalore can also create MP3 files for your portable MP3 player. Initial download has only the 1,000 most common Spanish words, but all 9,100 words are freely available on the web site.

Here are some key features of "Spanish Wordsgalore":

· 9,000 words with sound files
· Word lists that are good, simple, and searchable
· Flashcards with adjustable settings
· Remembers the words each user has learned
· Portable MP3 player support
· No flashy stuff; it's best for serious students
· Teachers can record their own words and phrases (but they need to be computer-knowledgeable)
· Other languages can be added by anyone (but they need to be computer-knowledgeable)
· Add the 1000 English sound files to the 1000 spanish words so that small version can support MP3 players.
· Make it easier for others to add their own words and languages.
· Add a message board here for the collaborators, enthusiasts, and suggestions.
· Correct the English and Spanish words.
· Consider making it GPL.
· Get word lists for other languages and tie them to the english words
· Ask others to add Tagalog, French, German, etc.
· Make a better database system so words only need to be changed on the master_list.
· Add an automated quiz function that remembers your scores and can disply the results to a teacher for all students on a given network.
· Add support for Unicode to allow symbols for Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, etc
· Export to PocketPC, Linux, etc.
· Patent, license: FMOD costs $100 and mp3 decoding costs $2,500 (if i distribute over 5,000) since it's an education/game title
· Possibly use Speex encoding as well as MP3. Speex files could be up to 70% smaller with a loss in quality.
· Enable MP3 encoding for collaborators.
· Add text-to-speech


Limitations:

· Computers with non-european character sets may need to use control panel to switch to the English language pack.


Note: Free for personal use