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Syracuse, the original publisher of this package, is no longer trading. We still have a few single-user copies of the Italian, German, French and Chinese versions in stock at the reduced price of £15.00 per language. Hurry, while stocks last! Prices quoted are net of postage and packing and VAT (17.5%).
Please note: This package dates back a few years and has not been recently updated. The French and Italian versions will run under Windows XP, but the German and Chinese versions will run only under Windows 98 or Windows 2000.
Originally produced by Syracuse, TriplePlay Plus - later known as Smart Start - has been a bestseller for a number of years. For a short time this CD-ROM was advertised in certain countries under the name Multimedia Language System. Confused? Well, this happens all the time in the CD-ROM business: names continually change, and firms pop up overnight and then disappear.
The general form of this package is the same as the popular original TriplePlay Plus, which includes Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and listening exercises linked to text on screen, e.g. the rearrangement of jumbled sentences forming part of a dialogue. With ASR, when you record your own voice the computer analyses your response and compares it to the model answer. A "ping" indicates that you are close, and a "boing" indicates that what you said cannot be recognised. The ASR has been observed to be highly motivating for young adult learners. You can also just play back your own recording and compare your attempts at pronouncing words and phrases with the native speaker’s. The learner can choose from three levels of language learning, each one building upon the last. There are six topic categories: Food, Numbers, People, Activities, Places & Transportation, Home & Office Within each activity the learner can play a language-learning game, choosing from many different games with multiple degrees of difficulty, practice screens, and clues. Colourful comic-strips are used to practise conversations (see screenshot above). The learner can choose different roles in the conversation, listen to the dialogue in its entirety, or in chunks at different speeds, with or without text on screen.