REVIEW: CD-ROM -  LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD              N T C Publishing Group

This multilingual dictionary database contains 17 dictionaries in twelve
lagluages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Dutch,
Danish, German, Japanese, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish.  It offers the
equivilent of 132 separate dictionaries or language combinations and 7 
million words on a single CD-ROM.  Amazing!

The database contains specialized words from business, science and 
technology as well as everyday terms.  It will easily and quickly provide 
translations, definitions and synonyms.  As a bonus, LANGUAGES OF THE
WORLD contains N T C's American Idioms Dictionary.

N T C Publishing group produces high-quality travel guides and many language
courses, so the LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD CD-ROM is no surprise.  It comes in
three formats: MS-DOS, Windows and Macintosh.  The MS-DOS version search
engine can be used as a TSR with a word processor, thus allowing you to
paste the result of your dictionary search directly into the document being
edited.  The Windows version the same feature and can be inserted into any 
Windows application through the use of the clipboard.  In addition, the
Windows version offers the option of displaying Japanese and Chinese 
characters on the screen.

Installation was easy.  There's a HELP menu, appropriately indexed and 
hyperlinked to different sections for easy browsing.  LANGUAGES OF THE
WORLD is not difficult to master using the HELP and pop-up definitions and 
examples.  I found this CD to be quite handy in going back and forth between
the various world's major languages, but I am puzzled by the fact that
Russian, which is spoken by over 200 million speakers, was omitted. 


%T      Languages of the World
%I      N T C Publishing Group
%C      4255 Touhy Ave Lincolnwood Illinois 60646
%O      CD-ROM  DOS $129.95 Windows $149.95
%G      ISBN: DOS 0-8442-9294-X  WINDOWS 0-8442-9250-8 
%K      disctinaries


(C) 1995
Michael Crestohl
Nahant Massachusetts  USA
mc@shore.net

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