Studying Foreign Languages

Improving reading skills

The Lexical Approach

   The page has been created to represent a freeware ms-dos program that helps to improve reading comprehension of English, German and French foreign texts.
   The impetus for creating this program was an unsatisfactory feeling from reading translated texts that always in a certain degree are an interpretation of the original.
   What problems are arising when an interested person wants to read difficult foreign texts?
     Grammar aspects are quite repetative and can be mastered relatively quickly, at least when reading skills are in question.
    When we deal with lexis - a problem of mastering thousands of lexical items arises. It can hinder reading in such a degree that it becomes senseless - multiple dictionary references obscure meaning and make reading rather a dull process.

   The program offers a solution for this problem. It supports using electronic texts as a source. Translations in user's mother tongue can be entered, edited and checked. It automatically finds related words in the previously translated material. It displays the page and column number for each translated word in a dictionary predefined by an user. In short it has been designed with the aim to alleviate reading process and in the same time not to constrain users in any way. It allows to accumulate up to 40000 translations that is more than enough.

   If you are interested in reading English,German or French texts and your mother tongue is English, German, French, Russian or Hebrew or any language with its alphabet contained in one of the alphabets of these languages - download and try it (you can also define your letters).
The program is freeware for non-insititutional and non-business environments; otherwise it should be considered as shareware and a registration is required.

Download Lexis20c.zip (210K)

Download lexis20.zip from Simtel Archive (210K)

See readme.txt

Feel free to contact me alexande@tx.technion.ac.il
 
 

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