Powerful and fully-featured Excel-based vocabulary learning tool

I have written an Excel workbook to help university students, school pupils and the rest of us to organise, learn and test knowledge of vocabulary and phrases in sixteen languages. It sits alongside its sister workbooks Memorise It and Revision Aid (for more information about the suite of workbooks, see here).

 

Here is the blurb:

Vocab Book is a powerful, fully-featured, Excel-based vocabulary organiser with six different built in tests including multiple choice, transcription of dictated phrases and pronunciation practice.
Train yourself in all four key areas of language acquisition: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

With Vocab Book you can improve your vocabulary, your listening skills and your pronunciation in sixteen different languages, safely archiving words and phrases as you get to know them so that your list contains only the items you have yet to learn.

You can keep track of all your new vocabulary and create your own Mp3 and paper-based vocab lists to test yourself when you are away from your computer.

Supported languages are Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Spanish and Ukranian.

And here is a flavour of what Vocab Book can do…

Quick start guide:

Test from English into target language:

Test from target language into English:

Pronunciation test:

Test with spoken questions:

Multiple choice test:

Dictation test:

Create an Mp3 of your whole vocab book:

Produce a paper vocab book of your vocabulary list:

I offer Vocab Book “as is”. It has undergone a limited amount of beta testing (thank you Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, Cathy Sell, Jessica Chakowa and Nadine Normand-Marconnet!) and should be relatively robust in windows 7, 8 and 10 environments running Excel 2010 onwards. For any other variations, no-one has told me how volatile Vocab Book is yet. Let me know!

You need to have Google’s Chrome browser installed to use many of the features of Vocab Book.

You can purchase Vocab Book securely through PayPal (it’s $5 Australian) by following this link. If you aren’t sure whether to take the plunge and spend a whole $5 on Vocab Book, you might want to download and try Vocab Book Lite, a limited version with only three built-in tests and no facility to create an Mp3 or printed book of your vocab list. You’ll also be reassured to know that I’m happy to provide a no quibbles 14-day refund to anyone who purchases Vocab Book only to find it doesn’t work on their machine.

It’s a project I’ve been working on in my spare time so I’m afraid I can’t provide technical support, but if you would like to offer any feedback (bugs, features you’d like to see…) do feel free to email me at christopher@christopherwatkin.com. I hope you find Vocab Book useful, and that you have half as much fun using it as I have had in getting the project to this point.

I’ve also written a memorisation tool called Memorise It, with a built in cloze test.