iSpeak Series: The Ultimate Audio + Visual Foreign Language Phrasebook for Your Portable Media Player

    NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill is pleased to welcome
 language learning into the age of digital mobile culture.
     The iSpeak Series (offered in Spanish, French, German, and Italian)
 turns any of the nearly 40 million iPod and MP3 players on the market into
 foreign language translation tools for on-the-spot reference. The iPod's
 intuitive, effective navigational interface allows you to quickly find
 those words and phrases most useful to you in a given context.
     Downloading iSpeak CDs into your iPod will give you access to nearly
 1,500 audio tracks, organized into various categories that allow you to
 communicate in all typical travel situations, such as finding
 accommodations, eating out, or expressing your perceptions and opinions.
 You'll be able to both see and hear hundreds of key words and phrases,
 which you can use as excellent study tools to prep for an upcoming trip or
 as worthwhile language reference while you're on the go.
     Once your iSpeak audio files have been loaded onto your iPod or other
 MP3 player, you can locate them in the same way you locate music files or
 other audiobooks, by browsing Artists or Genres. The program is designed so
 that an English phrase is followed by the appropriate translation.
     If you need a phrase or word, the answers are literally at your
 fingertips instantly for easy reference. If you need to find an ATM machine
 in Mexico City, scroll to the Bank album in Service & Shopping where you'll
 find the phrase, "Where is there an ATM near here?"
     Going to the Louvre? Review the Museums & Galleries album in
 Entertainment, as well as perhaps words and phrases in the Train & Metro
 album.
     iSpeak contents cover all aspects of travel and life, from
 "Conversation" (which includes subcategories including "Introductions,"
 "Feelings," and "Weather"), to "Entertainment," "Food," and "Reference."
     Included in the program is a 64-page paperback booklet that provides
 you with a written run-down of categories and sub-categories, and
 translations for all phrases and key words.
     iSpeak features:
     -- The only language reference to fully exploit the audio, visual, and
        navigational features of the iPod
     -- Compatibility with every iPod with a screen on the market
     -- Author Alex Chapin is a celebrated innovator of digital
        language-learning systems
     Upcoming programs to be released this summer will include Chinese,
 Japanese, and Portuguese.
     About the Author:
     Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College
 specializing in technologies for second language acquisition. Currently he
 has been collaborating in CodeLab in development of a number of open source
 curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and
 systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as
 well as a standards-based framework and architecture for building
 database-driven web applications known as Harmoni. He has received a grant
 from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
 that supports some of this work.
     Chapin has a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and an M.A. in
 History of Religions from the University of Virginia. He has a keen
 interest in Tibetan Buddhism, is a member of the Nalanda Translation
 Committee (which translates Tibetan texts), and is the multimedia designer
 of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning
 Tibetan.
     iSpeak Series
     April, 2007
     $12.95 Audio Datadisk & Booklet
     Category: Language/Travel
     Copyright 2007
 
     Available in the following languages:
     iSpeak Italian        ISBN 0-07-148614-3
     iSpeak French         ISBN 0-07-148608-9
     iSpeak Spanish        ISBN 0-07-148607-0
     iSpeak German         ISBN 0-07-148609-7
 
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     Ann Pryor, Publicity Manager
     McGraw-Hill Companies
     2 Penn Plaza, 12th Floor
     New York, New York 10121
     212.904.4078 tel
     Ann_pryor@mcgraw-hill.com
 
 

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