DUDEN DICTIONARIES for Palm

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Paragon Software (SHDD) – Smart Handheld Devices Division of Paragon Software Group is one of the leading developers of innovative software on the world’s software market, presented by several offices in Europe. SlovoEd is a series of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries developed to turn the device into a mobile translation and reference tool that is always at hand.

Paragon high-quality dictionary software makes the following Duden dictionaries available on Palm OS devices:

• Duden – German spelling dictionary
• Duden – German dictionary of synonyms
• Duden – German dictionary of foreign words
• Duden – German explanatory dictionary

With Duden German's leading and most distinguished language reference publisher and SlovoEd application engine from Paragon Software (SHDD), the world's leading provider of software for mobile platforms, two industry leaders have combined their efforts to provide a brilliant solution for your translation and reference needs.

Larry Berkin, the Director of Global Developer Marketing, PalmSource, Inc. said about SlovoEd dictionaries: 'They incorporate Palm OS design philosophy so seamlessly, it is sometimes difficult for users to tell where they end and the Palm OS begins.'

SlovoEd Duden dictionaries appeal to users due to high quality operation and low memory consumption technology that increases access rate greatly. Friendly interface available in English and German as well as in different colour schemes offers numerous necessary functions. Using electronic dictionary you will find the information 100 times faster than using a plain paper one.

Opportunities you gain with Duden dictionaries for Palm OS:

• Reading books, documents, and web-pages on your PDA you can get word translation, explanation or necessary reference quickly by using the Resident Module without leaving your active application. So you do not need to waste time on launching Duden every time you need it;
• Find the word in any grammatical form with the help of built-in English Morphology Module (for Duden Oxford German-English dictionary): any English word you come across in the text will be translated into German in no time;
• Listen to correct pronunciation of the difficult words with built-in German Sound Module provided by ARD databank, containing audio samples pre-recorded by native speakers; with sound module you won’t hesitate how to pronounce such words like Ayurveda, Baht, Micropayment, Nonprofitunternehmen, Telenovela, volatil, Weblog etc., and will learn about pronunciation variants in such disputable cases as Audit and Magenta;
• Study the language and learn something new and interesting every day in the easiest and most effective way with the Word of the Day feature and quiz yourself with the words you have added to Flash Cards from the dictionary;
• Save memory on your device and install Duden Palm dictionaries to expansion cards (Memory Stick, Compact Flash, SD Cards, MMC, etc).

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Compatibility:
Duden dictionaries for Palm OS are compatible with all the devices based on Palm OS 5.0 and higher, including the latest & most-popular devices (Palm Centro, Treo 680, Treo 700p, Treo 755p, Treo 650, Tungsten TX, Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2, LifeDrive etc.).
Morphology Modules are supported on all Palm OS 5.0 devices.
Sound Modules for SlovoEd dictionary are supported on Palm OS 5.0 devices except Tungsten T, Zire 22 and Sony Clie devices.