TITLE

Ensemble Verbes

VERSION

Version 1.4 (08/05/95)

AUTHOR

Peter E. Janes

E-mail:

pauljane@village.ca
pejanes@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (until August 1995)

Regular mail:

6868 Egremont Road
R. R. #8
Watford, Ontario, Canada
N0M 2S0

DESCRIPTION

Ensemble Verbes is a program to help students practise and master French verbs in the most common tenses of the language. It is designed to support classroom work, not to replace it. The shareware version contains only -er verbs and present, subjunctive past and present participle. The registered version of Ensemble Verbes features:

- Over 75 verbs, including -er, -ir, -re, reflexive and irregular conjugations
- Seven tenses: present, compound past, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive present and present participle
- Full online, context-sensitive help via AmigaGuide tm
- Close adherence to Amiga User Interface Style Guide
- Sound support
- Support for international keyboards
- Locale support (English, French, Norwegian and Spanish catalogs included)

Registered users can also obtain The French Student's Dictionary & Guide, a 150-page book featuring:

- French/English and English/French sections
- Most commonly used vocabulary, in context
- Many easy-to-understand examples to help in selection of
- vocabulary
- Many idiomatic expressions
- Regular and irregular verb charts
- Reference grammar guide
- Over 5500 entries

NEW FEATURES

This is an update to Ensemble Verbes 1.3. It fixes a bug introduced in version 1.3 that caused incorrect user prompting during verb practice and tests.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Any Amiga running AmigaOS 2.04 or above. AmigaGuide/MultiView and Installer are recommended.

AVAILABILITY

All files can be found on any Aminet site. The unregistered version of Ensemble Verbes may be found at:

ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/edu/Verbes1_4.lha (68656 bytes)

Patch files for registered versions may be found at:

ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/edu/VerbesRegPch14.lha (45813 bytes)
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/edu/VerbesRegPch13.lha (77599 bytes)
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/edu/VerbesRegPch12.lha (21241 bytes)
NOTE:

Each file is relative to the previous version. For example, to upgrade Verbes 1.2 to Verbes 1.4 you will need both VerbesRegPch13.lha and VerbesRegPch14.lha.

All of the files may also be retrieved (until August 1995) from:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pejanes/Verbes.html

PRICE

      Ensemble Verbes:                            CAN $25.00
      The French Student's Dictionary & Guide:    CAN $10.00
      Ensemble Verbes *and* The French Student's
         Dictionary & Guide:                      CAN $30.00

Add CAN $3.00 for shipping. User groups should contact the author for a group registration fee.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Shareware. The unregistered version of Ensemble Verbes may be included in the CD-ROM or floppy collections compiled by Fred Fish and the Aminet moderators; all others should contact Peter Janes before including the program. Both registered and unregistered versions are Copyright (C) 1995 by Peter E. Janes.