The following plug-in modules are available now for 'Verbs & Nouns':
Italian Nouns, by Adrienne Forbes (this module).
Italian Verbs, by Jacek Iwanski. This module helps you to learn and practise the parts of Italian verbs including reflexive verbs and compound tenses. It contains the full conjugations of about 380 irregular verbs and about 660 that are regular, with English translations. It is available at: <http://archive.pht.com/pub/mac/pht/i/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
Polish Nouns, by Jacek Iwanski. This module helps you to learn and practise the parts of Polish nouns. It contains 8000 nouns. It is available at: <ftp://ftp.sunet.se//pub/mac/info-mac/edu/lang/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
Swiss-German Verbs, by Flavio Spirgi. This module helps you to learn and practise the parts of Swiss-German verbs. It includes sound recordings. It is available at <ftp://mirrors.aol.com//pub/info-mac/edu/lang/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to Jacek Iwanski at: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>, or to the author Flavio Spirgi at: <Flavio.Spirgi@uni-konstanz.de>
Coming shortly:
Polish Words, by Jacek Iwanski.
Polish Verbs, by Jacek Iwanski.
Verbs & Nouns 1.5.
'Verbs & Nouns' is the application program that allows you to use the plug-in modules listed above. It also enables you to prepare other similar modules for your own or your students' use. The modules can include sound recordings, enabling the student to practise pronunciation and to do exercises based on the recordings.
The 'Verbs & Nouns' program and its plug-in modules are part of a larger interactive language-teaching project called the Foreign Language Toolkit.
The Foreign Language Toolkit.
The Foreign Language Toolkit comprises three application programs. They are:
• Verbs & Nouns. You use 'Verbs & Nouns' to write dictionaries and modules for practising inflections, and for recording sound and for exercises based on sound. You also use the 'Verbs & Nouns' program to browse the dictionaries and to practise the foreign language on a word level, with modules such as those listed above. It is available at: <ftp://ftp.pht.com//mac/pht/v/> or at: <http://archive.pht.com/pub/mac/pht/v/>). If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
• Language Toolkit Writer. You use 'Language Toolkit Writer' to write interactive multimedia lessons that are beyond the scope of 'Verbs & Nouns'. To make use of lessons prepared with Language Toolkit Writer, students use the companion program 'Language Toolkit Reader'. 'Language Toolkit Writer' is available at: <http://archive.pht.com/pub/mac/pht/l/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
• Language Toolkit Reader. You can use 'Language Toolkit Reader' to access modules and lessons prepared both by 'Verbs & Nouns' and by 'Language Toolkit Writer'. It is available at: <http://archive.pht.com/pub/mac/pht/l/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
Multimedia modules currently available consist of the first four lessons in a new course called 'Polish for All' – please see below.
The structure of the Foreign Language Toolkit is:
 
Additional features planned for the Foreign Language Toolkit include: a text editor with hypertext features; easy text analysis and translation; WWW capable utilities; and the capability to do lessons in real time over the Internet.
Polish for All.
'Polish for All' is an interactive multimedia course for learning Polish at the elementary level. One or two new lessons are released each month. The course consists of regular lessons and some series. To use this material you need to have the program 'Language Toolkit Reader' (version 1.1 or higher).
• Topic-oriented lessons usually focus on a picture, a movie or a story;
• Pronunciation lessons.
There are also two series:
• Countryside - an introduction to the most interesting regions of Poland;
• News - brief news from Poland: an introduction to 'media language'.
Other components are the modules 'Polish Nouns' and 'Polish Verbs' which are available now; and the forthcoming 'Polish Words', and 'Polish Verbs' in a new format.
Certain parts of the 'Polish for All' course are available from the internet. Other parts are available direct from the author. If you are interested in using 'Polish for All', please send an email to the author Jacek Iwanski at: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
Polish for Everyone.
'Polish for Everyone 1.3' is a precursor of 'Polish for All'. It is an application program which includes a series of lessons. The program is designed for beginners, but an intermediate student will find some useful things in it. It has the following features:
• 8 interactive lessons and many language exercises (300+ words are introduced);
• sound support (more than 600 sound samples);
• lots of pictures;
• vocabulary spoken aloud (more than 300 words);
• declension and conjugation tables;
• pronunciation rules (with tongue position pictures and sound);
• illustrated information about Poland: currency, the Tatra Mountains, prices;
• grammar explanations.
'Polish for Everyone' is available from: <ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/appl/>. If you have difficulty obtaining it, please send an email to the author Jacek Iwanski at: <jiwanski@alpha.luc.ac.be>.
