Alex Chapin - iSpeak French Phrasebook: The Ultimate Audio + Visual Phrasebook for Your iPod

Alex Chapin

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The iSpeak French phrasebook turns your iPod or MP3 player into a French translation tool for on-the-spot reference. iSpeak French has nearly 1,500 audio tracks, organized into various categories that allow you to communicate in all typical travel situations such as finding accommodations, eating out, or expressing your perceptions and opinions. The iPods efficient, intuitive navigational interface allows you to quickly find those words and phrases most useful to you in a given context. Going to the Louvre? Review the Museums & Galleries album in Entertainment, as well as perhaps words and phrases in the Train & Metro album. iSpeak French then allows you to both read and hear how these words and phrases are expressedthe most effective way to replicate native pronunciation and communicate successfully.

I remember my first Sony Walkman; how amazing it seemed that I could listen to whatever I wanted, wherever I was. It was also a bit overwhelming, the possible incongruities, walking through, say, Times Square listening to Chopins Ballade no. 1 in G Minor. Sony Walkmans and later portable CD players allowed people to create their own soundtrack to any context, making it possible to listen to a foreign language while immersed in its culturewhile sitting in a caf in Paris, for example. Now, digital mobile audio players such as the iPod introduce radical new ways to refine that immersion as well as add an interactive component to preparing for travel abroad or studying language in a context that will be explained in more detail below.

1. Start up iTunes.

2. Open the download folder on your computer.

3. Click and drag the labeled folder or file that you wish to listen to into your iTunes library.

5. Connect your iPod to your computer..

6. Sync your iPod to load the iSpeak files onto your iPod.

Note: users with iTunes on a PC may need to enable the option Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library to load files directly to iTunes. This option is found in the Advanced Preferences tab under the Edit toolbar. If you do not wish to enable this option, you need to first copy the files directly to your hard drive, and then drag the files to the iTunes Music Library window.

While the iSpeak French phrasebook was designed to work with iPods, it can be used on any other digital audio player that can play MP3 audio files. iSpeak audio files are loaded in the same way as any other MP3 audio files.

Once your iSpeak French audio files have been loaded onto your iPod or other MP3 player, you can locate them in the same way you locate music files or audiobooks, by browsing Artists or Genres. iPods have a scroll wheel that is used to select different options on the screen. Once selected (i.e., highlighted), the center button is used to choose the selected option. The menu button is used to return to a previous menu. Here are the steps:

1. From your iPods main menu, select Music.

(Note: the items available from the main menu of your iPod vary with settings and model. If you do not see Music in your main menu, select Artists instead.)

2. From the Music menu, select Artists.

3. Scroll through the alphabetic listing of artists to find the iSpeak French main categories, each of which begins with iS Fren. Choose the iSpeak (iS) artist or category that you would like to listen to (iS Fren 01 Conversation, for example).