Posted By: Avatar (On cloud nine...:-)) on 'English' Title: OALD on CD-ROM Date: Sat Feb 20 14:15:55 1999 I was lucky enough to get this CR-ROM... it's Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. I can strongly recommend it to you. It's a fantastic and powerful tool if you're doing a language research, studying complicated materials or anything, where you have to use a dictionary quite often. The main part of this programme is the dictionary, of course :-) They use the same system as they do in the paper version. Click on pronunciation... you get it (niiice English :-), click on any word or abbr in the text... you get the meaning instantly. Idioms, phrasal verbs... whatever you want. There is a picture section too.... intersection, school, street, human body, whatever... just move your cursor on the part which is interesting for you :-) The CD-ROM also includes maps... all the countries with their capitals. Then, there is a large appendices section. Here, you can look at basic grammar rules, punctuation, chemical elements chart, just anything :-) And... the last thing you can do is to play language games. This is my favourite part... VERY challenging. All in all, this is the best way how to spend CZK 1,800. It's WORTH it. Avatar alias Bodie (in chat) Always in high spirits...:-)