The Language Engine for Pronunciation is an interactive self-study package that teaches you all the speech-sounds of your chosen language. It describes each sound in everyday terms, as well as giving its accurate, professional definition. It lets you listen to all the sounds, test your recognition of them, record yourself pronouncing them, and listen to your recording so that you can see how close you are to the original. It even prints you a certificate when you reliably recognise them all!

The Language Engine HearNow! Phrasebooks are a fast, new way to start a language - computer-based mini-phrase-books with audio support. The vocabulary has been specially selected to enable you to quickly create new phrases for yourself, so extending your command of the language. And the audio support means that you can listen to any phrase in isolation, and focus on its exact sounds. (All the material is presented in phonetic transcription, and you can click "orthography" to see the ordinary spelling.) The phrases have been selected to give you the most important words in six categories:

1. Nouns (words for people, places, drinks);
2. Pointing (that one, one of those);
3. Numbers up to 12 (so you can tell the time);
4. Days of the week;
5. Pronouns (me, you, he, she);
6. Prepositions (in front of, behind, after, before, next to).

These are all words that you can recombine easily to create new phrases: after Tuesday, three coffees, eleven o'clock at the station. Making up new phrases is the way to become fluent in a new language, and presenting the material in categories helps you to remember it.