S09 · E05

Foreign Language Software

A review of computer programs that help you learn or understand a foreign language. Featured products include Language Assistant Series: Italian, Transparent Language: German/French/Latin, Speak to the World in Spanish, Hyperglot Chinese, and Hyperglot Japanese. Also visits to the Foreign Language Center of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and the Voice of America's System for News and Programming (SNAP) in Washington D.C. which operates in 45 different languages. Originally broadcast in 1991. http://archive.org/details/episode_920