A multimedia monolingual dictionary designed for learners of English from intermediate level upwards. It contains vocabulary from contemporary English and it provides everything that you usually expect of a dictionary - plus a lot more!

The system provides access to text and sound. It provides direct access to speech data allowing the user to play back recordings in real time and record their own voice. You can listen to any part of the text, as recorded by a native speaker, and everything you hear is displayed on the screen at the same time. It creates a realistic environment for the learner of English and improves fluency and accuracy of your English in an effective way.

• All entries are spoken by native English speakers.

• 40,000 definitions and more than 30,000 examples.

• More than 50 hours of speech, in 76,000 sound sequences. 283,000 recorded words.

• Search by entry, grammatical form or phrase.

• Create your own User's Vocabulary for revision. It follows the curves of short-term memory retention and constantly adapts the mechanism of repetition to an individual student and to an individual fact.

• You can drag any definition into a mailbox where you can enter it in your User's Vocabulary.

• You can hear each word spoken with its various forms and examples of use. You can also record your own voice to practise the pronunciation of a word or sentence.

• Includes extremely comprehensive contextually sensitive Help which is supplemented with a Graphics Index.

• Entries include: complete definition, spoken pronunciation, forms of the word, grammatical information, phrases, examples and cross-references.