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Babylonia 3.2 Dutch and English versions		by Hotsoft, (Dennis Hofs) 2000 Shareware (20-day Assessment) $19 baby32nl.zip / baby32uk.zip Flashcard format: word1, word2, and 'sample sentence' fields. One line text only :-(. A single (!) wave file can be attached to a flashcard. Font: you can set it for each flashcard side of the list. Font set for first language (word1) automatically set on sample sentence field. Training mode: word is shown, you click to view answer, you click to say if you knew it. Asking direction can be reversed. Assessment: no explicit Leitner system, but scores that have to add up to a certain amount. Hence, you cannot choose a knowledge level from which to start from :-(, although some sort of selective learning is allowed. "The score is in fact the number of times that you have translated the word correctly during the last five times it has been asked. The progress is the total number of times you have translated the word correctly. You can set yourself what score and what progress you find sufficient. As for the progress, you can even set it for each word separately. That is done by so-called exercise levels. There are three exercise levels: quick, normal and intensive. So at intensive practising you have to get a higher progress than at quick practising." Stats: no further stats. Packs of flashcards vs Study Files: no. Time limited training: yes. Import/Export: yes. Single user. Find and replace and sort functions. Print: wordlists only, no single cards.

Before You Know It 3.0		by Transparent Language Commercial ($20-$40). Before You Know It Viewer (Freeware) available for download [8.6 MB]. Other programs from the same authors: see Vocabulary Master Flashcard format: Q/A, can include a sound and a picture. One font per flashcard only, but can be resized. Training mode: Four learning modes, to for assessing knowledge by hand, two for typing in the answer. Assessment: Stats displayed during training. The four training modes give different scores for each flashcard. This way, a Leitner-like system is displayed. You cannot choose to train in the flashcards of a given score, but you can sort the List as per the scores yielded from each of the four training modes. Editor mode and List of flashcards. Usability: Mouse is a must for some buttons. Accented characters are input by way of Ctrl+Cursor-Up or a virtual keyboard. Extras: Sounds can be reproduced at low speed. Print. Import from PDA. Export and email. Multi-user support. Depending on version, includes 1000 vocabulary words plus 250 common phrases of Spanish, French, or Italian - or all three plus German ("Multi" version).

Belearn ?.?		by Belearn <Not reviewed yet>

BestTest 1.0		by EduShare Shareware ($1) 5 MB Test creation and administration tool. Multiple-choice (6 options), true-false, essay, cloze tests. Reports (disregarding essays). Teacher section is password protected. Printing. Networking.

Binary Memorizer 1.0		by Xiao Luo 1999 Freeware. bimem.zip A very simple multiple choice program. Flashcard format: a word and a meaning field. Training mode: questions can be reversed. Program asks to choose one in five options (it picks the four wrong ones randomly from the rest of the file).

BlastWords 1.0		by www.gale-force.com ($19) setup.exe 451 kB Text only, no multiple fonts, flashcard pairs invertible, flashing. No Assessment. Flashcard files are notepad-editable. A list of the flashcards in the Pack of flashcards is available.

BM_Teach 1.2 German interface		by Bernd Müller (edited by Matthias Firnkes). Shareware (~25 Euros) Windows 3.1. bmteach.zip 1750 kB One line text only. Open file/ choose lesson occurs via a tutorial (no overview list :-( ). Edition is awkward (no overview). It is easier to edit flashcards in external editor (Notepad). Print lists. English-German sample files included. Extras: some English grammar tips. Poor en-de / de-en sentence translator. Bugs: some stability problems. Extended characters in sample files seemingly in DOS encoding; hence not displayed properly. Some menu commands did not work when document windows (actually dialog boxes) were open. User-friendliness: mouse is a must :-(.

BrainSport 1.2.981219		by Gabrièle Corson, Personal Learning (~50 Euros) This is a good application, but ranking far below VTrain, and too expensive. Five stage Leitner file implemented. Makes a distinction between Packs of flashcards (called "dictionaries") and Study Files. Stats included. Text files only. Interesting help file (but poor English). Files can be imported and exported (as .txt files). Fonts and keyboard layouts can be set separately for questions and for answers.

BufoVok 2.11 German interface		[BufoVok 2.11 or 2.1b -- both figures mentioned in software] by BufoPro (~10 Euros) bufovoksetup.exe 2656 kB (link) An intuitive, customizable application with a constraining flashcard format. Flashcard format: (all plain text) foreign word, translation (both multiple line), genitive, genus, part of speech, difficulty, comments, present, present perfect, past participle. Font customizable for several of these fields. Input: Character map. Special function for inputting Greek accents (kind of macro function via +, <, and > keys). Selective learning: stage reached by card is stored in the "difficulty" field of the flashcard, which allows a five-stage Leitner system. Answer checking options: self-grading option (you can be prompted after entering an answer to decide yourself if it was right), ask not only translation (but other fields too), which fields to display, check 'strictness' can be established by percentage. The fault tolerance settings are the most fully-fledged ones I have seen: Ignore characters (Greek accents, French accents, blank space, ignore characters from a customizable list, ignore words in parentheses, allow different word order, ignore case, ignore articles (from a customizable list), consider synonyms (equivalent words as given in a customizable word pair list -- useful for using abbreviations), allow typing mistakes (option: as per a percentage), check only word endings of foreign word / genitive form. Option: display "genus" field when foreign word is a preposition (to misuse the genus field to input the casus rected by the preposition). Stats for each card. You can reset both stats and "difficulty". File list and hierarchical overview. Search.

ByHeart 1.7		by Stanislav Korotky English, Russian, and German (this one quite shabby) interfaces in a single release. Files not structured in a strict Question / Answer scheme, since a Question may refer to several possible Answer items. Actually, the words in each language appear grouped in the vocabulary files, which appear 'compiled'. Also available are indications about the part of speech (adj. / verb /... -- new types can be added) of Question, stress for Question, comment on Answer, a single sound and a single picture, and a single phonetic transcription (input by way of a click-through character panel). Several training modes, e.g. two variants of multiple-choice, one making the wrong guessed appear more often, and the other one assigning a kind of Leitner 'weigh' (1-10 points) to each item, as per the user's performance. Anyway, this is no selective Leitner system, since it does not allow selecting a stack (or working Study File) of a specific degree of difficulty. Other modes incorporate features like flashing ("Frame 25"), timeouts, and saying whether you know the right answer or not before it is displayed ("Deja Vu"); but such are not available as general options, but specific of each mode. Also available: scored exam sessions, crosswords, recreation of real dialogs, timed popup training sessions ("Secret Agent"). -- In summary, this is a program rich in contents, but it would be more flexible and intuitive for the user if the settings were common to all learning modes and if they were fully customizable. Registered users can get "the integration module for Lingvo 5.0, which enables you to listen to pronunciation of English words from Lingvo's multimedia base (Lingvo is a registered trademark of ABBYY Software House)." You cannot keep several flashcard files open at the same time, no multiple document interface (MDI). Wild card (?, *) search with filtering option (items selected on list, file types within a flashcard). Prints out double-sided flashcards. Some mistakes in the sample vocabulary files available for download from the website. The broken English used in help file is sometimes difficult to understand. Uninstall procedure not completely successful.