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Clipboard Monitors

In Windows, the term "copy" has a very specific meaning. You can "copy" pieces of text into the so-called clipboard for later retrieval. After "copying" something, you can "paste" it into any text editor or word processor as many times as you wish.
This is a very useful facility that can spare you lots of retyping and eases transfer or short text clippings between applications.

For example, as a language learner you probably want to collect foreign words that are new to you from a text in your target language. You could select the words, copy them (just press CTRL + C), then open a text editor and paste (CTRL + V) the words into it.

But that procedure can be quite tiring if you have to copy many words. In this situation, "clipboard monitors" can help. They collect whatever you copy into the clipboard, and store it into a log file. So, a vocabulary list is easily built.

Here, we present some clipboard monitors tailored especially for language learners.

Clip2VTrain 1.24

by Pedro Meca Freeware This is a clipboard monitor designed especially for VTrain users. Build your own vocabulary lists from any text. It captures anything you copy (CTRL+C) into the clipboard. Optionally, it can prompt you to input a translation every time.

Cogitum Co-Citer 1.0

by Cogitum Freeware Clipboard monitor that captures the selected text, its Internet address (URL), and the date. Sort items in folders, get back to original URL, search facility, export to HTML, print. Drawback: works only on Internet Explorer (5.0 and above).

VocabViewer 0.99a

by Colin Mahoney for International House Freeware vv.zip Another clipboard monitor. It makes a list from the texts copied into the clipboard from any other application. The list can be edited and printed out in form of 8x3 flashcards per sheet, but it cannot be exported.

Vocabulary Reapers

Have you ever needed to collect all words from a foreign language file? This may be especially useful when you want to start learning a language with an intensive course. The following applications leech the words from a file and offer them in alphabetical order.

LexList 1.0 (?)

by Braser Shareware, $40 "LexList is a program designed to help both business and personal users make selective word lists. With LexList, you can open a text file of any size and extract and create alphabetically ordered lists of every word in the file, or lists of words containing, beginning with, or ending with the character strings which you specify. After creating your lists you can clean them of all characters you do not want to include as well as combine several lists into one."

VCU 1.0

by Windows Spying Project [Velocity Cracking Utilities] Freeware Includes a utility that builds alphabetical vocabulary list from a given text file. Fast!