Vocab Book is a powerful excel-based vocabulary learning tool with advanced functionality, designed by language learners for language learners. If you are serious about learning words and phrases in your target language and are looking for an electronic vocabulary organising and testing tool, Vocab Book is best in class.
It includes eight different built-in tests that train the user in all four key areas of language acquisition: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Source to target language accumulator test (reveal the translation and tell Vocab Book whether you guessed correctly)
- Target to source language accumulator test (reveal the translation and tell Vocab Book whether you guessed correctly)
- Source to target language question to answer test (type the translation and Vocab Book will tell you whether you were correct, and give you the correct answer)
- Target to source language question to answer test (type the translation and Vocab Book will tell you whether you were correct, and give you the correct answer)
- Multiple Choice test
- Oral questions: The computer speaks words and phrases in the target language and the user has to write the correct translation
- Dictation: The computer speaks words and phrases in the target language and the user has to write exactly what he or she hears
- Pronunciation: The computer speaks words and phrases in the target language and the user has to pronounce the same phrases (using a microphone linked to their desktop, laptop or tablet)
- The workbook links directly to online dictionaries (specific definitions launched with one click in an external Chrome browser) allowing you to search for words and phrases with ease.
- The user can enter up to 2000 words or phrases into any copy of Vocab Book (but you can make as many copies of the workbook as you want).
- After each test, the user receives a score, and can send the words and phrases they understood correctly to an archive list so that the next test only contains those items that have been answered incorrectly in the past.
- The user can create Mp3 and paper-based vocab lists to self-test when away from the computer.
- Currently supported languages are Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Spanish and Ukranian.
- Vocab Book exists in two versions: one with more in-built functionality that is designed for Excel 2010, and a second that makes use of an external Chrome browser rather than embedded browser objects.
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.
To see what Vocab Book can do, click on one or more of the screencast videos below:
