From helmut.holzhausen@extern.uni-ulm.de Sun Oct 1 10:42:46 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA98764 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:42:45 -0700 Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA19792 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:42:43 -0700 Received: from hholzhau (ulmathome139.extern.uni-ulm.de [134.60.8.139]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA01977 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:42:42 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <002e01c02bce$fd208c80$8b083c86@extern.uniulm.de> From: "Helmut Holzhausen" To: Subject: FLEXIO The Latin trainer with new features Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:37:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sodalibus magistrisque studentibusque Linguae Latinae s.d. May I draw again your attention to my program FLEXIO The Latin trainer ("your FLEXIO program is great!" Walter Petrovitz, NY - quoted with permission) I have implemented some very useful new additional features, proposed by satisfied customers from all over the world (USA, CANADA, UK, SPAIN and even SRI LANKA). In the German speaking countries of course the German version is very popular. As you know or can see in the presentation of the program at my website http://www.flexio.de (then click English version) the four main columns of FLEXIO are: IDENTIFY Latin forms - FORM Latin forms - TABLES of Latin forms - LOG TO IDENTIFY LATIN FORMS - TO FORM LATIN FORMS (with FILTER) (all parts of speech: nouns, adjectives+comparison, pronouns, participles, verbs) The forms to be identified or to be formed by the user are generated out of an extensive vocabulary, the program thereby considers and processes all rules of the Latin grammar, all declensions, all conjugations, even most irregularities and all parts of speech. The program gives you a form to identify or to form. The program verifies your answer, allows three attempts and eventually shows the right solution, if you haven't been able to find the solution yourself. The solution can always be called for. Through a very sophisticated, but easy to use FILTER you may steer the random, so that only forms which are familiar or congruent to your level of knowledge will be exercised. So f.e. you may exclude all subjunctives or vice versa just exercise only subjunctives and so on. The program really is adjustable to your needs and wishes. NEW FEATURE: There is now the possibility to exercise just with one choosen word. For example: you want to exercise the forms of "ire" - just enter into the provided textbox "ire" and only forms of ire will be exercised. Same procedure with all other verbs like facere, velle, nolle, malle, posse, prodesse, posse - or for the beginner only verbs like laudare, habere - what ever. Not only verbs, but all parts of speech can be exercised in this special just-one-word-kind: you choose which word to practise: an easy one like amicus, templum or puella, a more difficult like mare, simple adjectives like magnus or more difficults like celeber or celer (+comparison) or pronouns or participles. THE TABLES The forms of all parts of speech may be displayed in tables, f.e. all cases (sg. and pl.) of nouns, pronouns or participles or all cases and genders of an adjectives + comparison or all persons, all tempora, indicatives, subjunctives, active, passive of a choosen verb. You just enter the nominative or the infinitive, then all possible forms will be clearly displayed and may be printed. NEW FEATURE: The vocative is now included in the table. You may select how the cases are displayed: European order (nom., gen., dat., acc., abl., voc) or ENGLISH ORDER (nom., voc., acc., gen., dat., abl.) New is the possibilty to display in the table also a choosen combination of a noun plus another part of speech (adjectives+comparison, pronouns, participles). THE LOG To practice can be fun and competition. The program logs every event and displays the results of a session in a clear log for every user. Why not have an Latin Olympiad in the class room? Who has first identified 10 forms of velle correctly? Who has first formed 10 correct forms of mare and so on? The possibilities are endless. At my website http://www.flexio.de (then click English version) you will find a lot of information about the program The extended presentation with many screenshots will give you a clear impression, how the program works, which possibilities it offers and how it is used. You may download a DEMO-Version with - of course - very restricted possibilities A secure form is provided (HOW TO ORDER) to order the program via internet and to pay by credit card (or check, cash, wire transfer or money order) - postage and handling included. After ordering the CD with the full program will arrive in a few days, the installation is easy and you are ready to exercise the whole spectrum of the Latin grammar according to your needs, wishes and level of knowledge. Due to rising costs of postage and handling in Europe a slight raise of the price was necessary. The single license costs US$ 35.00. You may also order an institutional license, then you have to order 10 licenses (you will get one CD with the authorization to install and use the program at all your institutional computers.) I promise you, you will be happy and satisfied with FLEXIO and you will learn easy and playfully almost everything of the Latin grammar, step by step, you select the pace and the subjects. FLEXIO is a geat gift too!! I hope to hear from you soon, you won't regret it! Believe me! Helmut Holzhausen The program has been used successfully for many years by many users. First was the German version, now the English version is sold all over the world (USA, CANADA, UK, SPAIN and even SRI LANKA). Intentionally the program works without any multimedial gimmicks and without any translation of the forms. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmut Holzhausen Magirushof 49 89077 Ulm GERMANY e-mail:helmut.holzhausen@extern.uni-ulm.de Telefon: + 49 731 6020106 Fax: + 49 89 244351124 website: http://www.flexio.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- .