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     This document replaces any sort of manual or help system that you might
  expect to find. The Spanish Helper programs have been designed with the
  computer novice in mind, so there is no need for extensive instructions
  on the use of the programs. The DOS versions are text based programs with
  low memory requirements, and will run on any IBM compatible computer--no
  matter how old it may be.

      Spanish Helper for Business is the first of the Spanish Helper
  for Specific Purposes programs. The complete registered version
  contains more than 9,000 words (between Spanish and English) and provides
  the framework to become fluent in their usage. In the Shareware version
  you are provided with more than 2,600 words (vocabulary from 'A' to 'E')
  so that you can properly evaluate the program and make the decision to
  buy the full version. This is the Shareware principle: try before you
  buy.

      One of the best aspects of the program, and which is fully functional
  in the Shareware version, are the Personal Lists. You can make your own
  vocabulary and practice it using the Spanish Helper interface, testing
  yourself on your own vocabulary in the Multiple Choice and Fill In 
  question format. An ideal way to use this with the Business program
  is to make a note of the terms which you consistently cannot remember
  and then put them in a special Personal List.

      When you buy the complete commercial version, you will receive not
  only another 7,000 terms with which to practice, but also a free program
  of Spanish jokes with the possibility to see the translation in English.
  What has this got to do with Business? Not much, but if you are really
  trying to learn Spanish, it's a fun way to do it. And besides, you can
  just sit back and relax for a moment after struggling to remember how 
  you say 'secondary market securities' in Spanish. :-) When you order,
  you will receive the latest version of the program, and all of the
  registration reminders and the 'Do you want to read the ordering
  information?' questions at the end of the program will disappear.
	

   MENUS  
  

      The exercise options in the Main Menu should be self-explanatory.
  However, some of the other options may need some additional explanation:      

 
      Personal Lists (Main Menu, option I)
      
      
      The Personal Lists are one of the best features of the Spanish 
  Helper programs. Use your imagination in creating them. As mentioned
  above, you will find them very useful in creating lists of business
  terms which you find difficult to remember, but don't restrict yourself
  to that--use your imagination to create any type of list that could
  be useful to help you learn Spanish!

      Choosing this option will bring up the Personal List Menu, which
  contains the following items:
     
      The first option <<Use Personal Lists>> will bring up another menu
  which will allow you to practice any of the Personal Lists which you
  have already created.

      The second and third options <<Create Multiple Choice List>> and 
  <<Create Fill In List>> are the starting points for making your own 
  lists. Choose one or the other, and then position the bar over one of 
  the options  (1 to 6) and press Enter. Then you give your list a name.
  Call it anything you want, but it's a good idea to include an 'F' or a
  'MC' somewhere in the name so that in the future you will know what kind
  of exercise you will be doing. For example, if you are making a personal
  list of new verbs for Fill-in questions, call it 'Nverbs_F', or if it is
  to be a Multiple Choice list call it 'Nverbs_MC'. After that you will be 
  taken to a new screen where you make the list. A word of caution about 
  writing your Fill-in questions: if your question spills over into the 
  second line, the word will NOT be separated or hyphenated on the screen 
  until you FINISH the question. You'll be able to live with this after doing
  it a couple of times.  And here's a trick for Fill-in questions with more 
  than one option: suppose you are entering a word in your personal list and 
  you know there is more than one correct answer, but you just can't think of
  it at the time. Well, enter a blank space and you can go back later and 
  fill it in with the modify option (read on).  Remember, YOU MUST ADD AT 
  LEAST 25 QUESTIONS FOR THE PROGRAM TO WORK. If you don't, you will see a 
  beautiful screen reminding you of this fact and also that you should read 
  this manual when you try to use it.  You don't have to do all 25 at once 
  though. Write ten now, and then go back using the following option 
  described immediately below:
    
      The fourth option <<Add to Personal List>> does just what it says, and
  lets you add more questions. The operations of the editing screen are 
  identical to those described above in the Create Personal List section. 
  You can enter a total of 1,500 questions in your personal lists. If you 
  enter more, they will be ignored, but are you really going to more than 
  a total of 9,000 questions in the six Personal list options?

      The fifth option, <<Modify Personal List>> will let you edit the
  information in the lists you have already made, eliminate typos, change
  an answer, etc. Remember, here you CANNOT add another NEW option to your
  Fill-in questions; you can only modify the information you have already
  entered. If you want to add or delete a correct answer option, you'll
  have to erase the entire question with F1, and then later use option 
  number 2 (Add to Personal List) to rewrite the question correctly. All
  of the other keyboard options are explained on the screen.

      The sixth option <<Print Personal List>> does just that. Choosing it
  will bring up the screen showing the lists you have made. Position the
  menu bar over the list you want to print, make sure that your printer is
  on, and press ENTER. 

      Information and Setup (Main Menu, option J)
      

      Choosing this option will bring up a screen which has some fun, 
  interesting and useful items. The first option <<Setup>> brings up a 
  screen with the following options: with the first two options you can 
  either set permanently or change whether you have a color or monochrome 
  screen and whether you have '' and accents on your keyboard or not. In 
  3 and 4 you can set the time that you would like for both multiple choice 
  and fill-in questions (anywhere between 5 and 55 seconds--we know some of 
  you  would like 3 minutes on each question, but we aren't going to let you 
  get away with it!). With number 5, you can turn off the sound if you want
  to. Number 6 will let you choose a different background screen color if you
  aren't satisfied with the beautiful blue that Spanish Helper provides. 
  (The monochromers out there will be able to choose between black and grey!)
  You change the color by pressing the arrow keys <- or -> . If you make a 
  mistake anywhere in the process, answer 'No' to 'Is everything correct' 
  and you can start over. Remember that you can change any part of this 
  configuration at any time.

      The second option, <<Read Manual on Screen>>, is what you are probably 
  using to read this document. That's what it does.    

      The third option, <<Print Manual>>, will print this document for you.
  It will print out 7 or 8 pages.

      The fourth will allow you to read the order.doc on the screen.

      The fifth will <<Print the order.doc>> so that you can order hundreds 
  of copies of Spanish Helper for all your friends and family.

       Number six does just what it says, it returns you to the main menu.

      You are given 25 questions each time you decide to do some exercises,
  whether you use your own lists or those provided with Spanish Helper. If
  you only enter 25 questions in your own lists, you will obviously see the
  same questions every time in spite of the fact that the questions are 
  randomly selected. In the lists that come with Spanish Helper, there are
  over 1,000 different questions in many sections, you can do the same 
  section several times, and although you may see some questions repeated, 
  it will be a different exercise every time. Remember, you can enter up to
  1,500 questions in your personal lists.

   
    SOME PRACTICAL NOTES 
   
      
      Since you have to type in a number to answer the multiple choice
  questions, people have found that the most comfortable way, and the best 
  way to avoid making typing mistakes, is to do one of the two following 
  things: if you are an accountant and love the numeric keyboard, you should 
  probably use it. If you do not feel comfortable with the numeric keyboard, 
  one of the best systems is to keep your four fingers poised over the 
  1,2,3,4 keys and answer accordingly. You can go a lot faster, and you avoid
  typos this way.

      Depending on your level of knowledge, you may or may not find the
  multiple choice questions easy. If you think you are a whiz because you
  get them all right, just wait until you get to the fill-in questions. It's
  a different story there. A good general study plan is to go over the
  multiple choice section until you feel fairly confident, and then move on
  to the corresponding fill-in section.

      In the fill-in questions: yes, it is possible that you type in an
  answer that is correct and Spanish Helper insists that it is wrong. Keep 
  in mind that great care has been taken in the correction to include as many
  correct choices as possible, but your Spanish Helper is only human--and can 
  make an error by omission. It is extremely difficult to foresee all 
  possible translations of a word or phrase in all possible contexts. 
  However, this paragraph applies only to an occasional exception. If you 
  are really trying to learn Spanish, assume that you are being corrected 
  correctly and investigate to find out the error of your ways. That's the 
  only way you are going to learn.


  Other Programs
  

    Spanish Helper---LEVELS 1, 2, 3. 
   
      
       In LEVEL ONE, the 1,000 most common words in the language are used, in
  LEVEL TWO, the 2,000 most common words, and as you may expect, LEVEL THREE 
  uses the 3,000 most common words. This is not bad considering that 
  linguistic studies indicate that the majority of native speakers of any 
  language only use 700 or 800 words most of the time.

      In LEVEL ONE, the verb practice consists of practice in simple present, 
  the preterite (simple past), the 'ir a + infinitive' future combined with
  the present progressive, and the present perfect. You also have on Level 
  One a section to practice the mystical differences between SER and ESTAR,
  as well as everyone's favorite, the prepositions. When you register, you
  also receive for free the program CHISTES 101, a great collection of 101
  Spanish jokes with their translations.

      In LEVEL TWO, the verbs tenses include in addition to the tenses listed
  for Level One, the imperfect, the future and the conditional. Notice too,
  that  the verbs in Level Two are new; with few exceptions of common verbs,
  they were not presented in Level One. You get a chance to practice the new 
  verbs in the present, preterite, 'ir + a' future and the present progressive
  as you do in Level One, as well as in the new tenses. Also in Level Two, in
  addition to the standard verb practice, there is a section devoted 
  exclusively to commands (the imperative). When you buy Level Two, you also
  receive for free CHISTES 102 , a collection of another 102 Spanish jokes
  with their translations.

      LEVEL THREE has a general review of all tenses (once again using almost 
  all new verbs) but its big point as far as verbs are concerned is here you 
  get a lot of practice in the subjunctive, both present and past forms. The 
  verbs used for the subjunctive are a cross-section of all the verbs 
  presented in levels One, Two and Three. You also get a section of common 
  fixed expressions and sayings. When you buy Level Three, you also
  receive for free CHISTES 103 , a collection of another 103 Spanish jokes
  with their translations. If you learn all 306 jokes in the three levels, 
  you'll know so much Spanish that you'll never have to study again!

      Each level is larger than the previous level because of the inclusion
  of new verb tenses, and at the same you can practice the new  verbs using 
  the tenses offered in the previous level.

      And I suppose it goes without saying that the vocabulary in each level 
  is different from the previous level, so you won't be doing the same thing 
  over and over. The overall thrust of the three levels is to give you the
  most common vocabulary at the beginning and move on to more refined lexical
  structures as the level increases.

    ORDERS, PRICES, ETC.  
   
      
     Please use the options from within the program to either print out 
  or read the ORDER.DOC for a complete price list and ordering information. 
  This information is also available if you answer 'Yes' (Y) to the question
  at the end of the program asking if you would like to read the licensing
  information, or use option 7 from the Information, Configuration, Personal
  Lists menu.



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                     Hasta luego, y buena suerte!


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