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The program is designed to give you special help with Paper 3 of the First Certificate exam, and in particular with the tricky Part 4 - error correction. broken link?Comments 

Ergane 8.0

Multilingual translation dictionary for Windows that uses the artificial language Esperanto to translate words and short expressions from one natural language to another. broken link?Comments 

Everest Dictionary 3.10 beta

Multilanguage dictionary with 18 dictionaries. broken link?Comments 

FreeTranslator

a free translator that translates various languages like Italian, English, French, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, German, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Dutch, Arabian, Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Czech, Indonesian, Welsh, SerboCroat, Ainu and more. broken link?Comments 

HieroGlyph library 0.4

It gives beginners a head-start with the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics language. It offers user access to some of the most common symbols. Each symbol can be selected in a number of different ways and, once selected, a transliteration and translation is given, enabling the user to grasp the Egyptian language, quickly and efficiently. broken link?Comments 

JDrill 1.0

Program for multiple-choice testing in the Japanese Katakana and Hiragana scripts. broken link?Comments 

Polyglot 3000 3.33

automatic language identifier that can detect the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word. The program features over 400 languages. Input text files utilise both Unicode and ANSI encodings. broken link?Comments 

Selingua 5.1

Vocabulary training program with extensive built-in dictionaries - more than 2000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish. There are six different exercises for practicing vocabulary and verb inflections, including a crossword exercise. Users can also add their own words to the dictionaries. broken link?Comments 

VocabOne 02 4.29

A small vocabulary-/allround-trainer. Easy creating, editing and testing. Quite a lot of options to adapt it best to personal use. Support in 4 Languages (German, English, French and Spanish). broken link?Comments 

WordBanker VB English 2

tool to help you to improve your english vocabulary. It tests you in sessions of 20 words a session. Once you have been tested on those 20 words you will automatically be taken to round 2 where you are tested only on the words you got wrong. Once all words have been translated correctly the session ends. broken link?Comments 

WordFinder 2.1

General dictionary search program aimed at people who play word games such as Scrabble, Networdz, Boggle or crosswords. It provides the facility to search for: anagrams, matching patterns, words containing certain letters, and more. broken link?Comments 

WordReference

Translate any English word in any Web page with a few quick clicks, using the Collins translating dictionaries. Works with Windows 95/98/NT and comes in two forms, one for Internet Explorer, one for Netscape. broken link?Comments 

WordWeb 5

powerful free English thesaurus and dictionary. Features include: Definitions and synonyms, Proper nouns, Related words, 120, 000 root words, 100, 000 synonym sets, Link up to MS Word. broken link?Comments