Talking Picture
  Dictionaries

Fairbrothers and Translate, Inc.

Word-Pal

A unique web service, Word-Pal is an online talking picture dictionary. Word-Pal is also a "reverse" dictionary. Start with the concept, or picture in your mind, work your way back to the word. It is also a great educational tool, being similar to the "Duden" picture dictionary textbooks, the concept used to educate children in Japan and Germany. Now available in American and British-accented English, and soon Chinese and Russian audio files will be added. Translated words are available in English, Chinese, Russian, German and French, Fingerspelling and Braille, with more languages to be added.

Fairbrothers. Inc, in the software, internet and language business since 1989, introduced the world's first computer-based "talking picture dictionary," known as Audio Gallery. Fairbrothers now offers the original picture dictionaries and several other services -

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Audio Gallery

 

Click to listen to the Audio Gallery sound samples:

Audio Gallery is available in several versions. Click here for Screenshots.

      
Chinese                                                 English

      
French                                        Russian

Now on sale for and

German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish

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Audio Gallery and Word-Pal, while similar in concept, are different products. Audio Gallery (downloadable software) is an introduction to a foreign language (or English), and contains 700-900 basic words and phrases. Word-Pal (available on the web) contains over 7000 words and phrases, audio is in British and American English, Chinese and Russian, and it includes Braille and Handsigning translations.

Audio Gallery is designed as a rapid introduction to the basic vocabulary of a foreign language.

Word-Pal is more of a reference, but can still be useful as an educational tool.

Both programs are designed for ease of use by children or adults who may not be able to read English, but who can, of course, click on pictures. Both programs are naturally easier to navigate through pictures.

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Courtroom is a game of legal affairs, which helps you to develop logical and critical thinking. Win the case by evaluating testimony, objecting to hearsay and other inadmissable evidence, in a courtroom setting, thus persuading a majority of the jury, to win the case.

You can prosecute or defend the accused. You choose from conservative or liberal judges, select witnesses, listen to testimony and by convincing the jury, win your case.

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Digital Orchestra (sound effects - SFX)

Digital Orchestra 1: Digitized instruments, for use in your music-making (tracker or MIDI) programs:

Bass Guitars - Slap Bass, Fretless, Picked, etc.
Brass - Tuba, Trombone,Trumpet, French Horn, etc.
Reeds - Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, etc.
Strings - Violin, Viola, Cello, Orch Hits, etc.
Many more....

Digital Orchestra 2: Sound Effects (useful in Flash and other applications)

Sound Effects include airplanes, animals, people, birds, boings, bumps, beeps, breaks, etc. Over 1000 sound effects.

Digital Orchestra 3: Foreign Languages (useful in Flash and other web applications)

Languages - About 100 words - each language includes the Alphabet (where applicable), Numbers (1-10), and a few Basic Expressions (Hello, How are you, Yes, No, Good-bye, etc.). In English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian and Portuguese.

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Fairbrothers and Translate, Inc.

Translations - Volga Words

From our new sister office in Togliatti, Russia, we offer quality translations of technical papers, business documents and all other types of correspondence into English or Russian, from European and Asian languages. Also, we can perform any language to any other language translation with help from our overseas assistants.

Outsourcing - Volga Programmers

We can provide fast, accurate web-site development and data maintenance. We can bring your ideas to life, using our team of Russian programing experts. We are skilled in HTML, PHP, Flash, Delphi, MYSQL, multimedia (sounds, music and speech, 2-D and 3-D animations). The world's best programming talent - our team is hard working, university-educated, and inexpensive.

Language Learning - Volga School

Learn Russian in Russia. We will pick you up at the aiport, arrange accomodations, and teach you the world's most difficult language (webmasters's opinion only!). Stay in an apartment, hotel or share space with a real Russian family in a homestay, learn at your own pace or try to keep up with the demanding pace of the teacher. All for much less than the price of study at a major US university. Russian is taught, of course, by university-educated native Russian-speaking instructors.

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Tired of paying high prices for dental services? Or postponing endlessly making that necessary appointment because you never seem to be able to afford needed services? You can receive equivalent service in Russia for a small fraction of the price in Western countries. Even including the cost of airfare, accomodations, meals, etc., you could save thousands of dollars by having expensive dental work performed here. And at the same time, enjoy a vacation in an exotic land. We will greet you at the airport, arrange visa, organize accomodations, translation and interpretation services, and of course provide you with a selection of dentists.

Visit Russia - Volga Tour

In summer, the sand beaches of nearby Samara are popular, and the "Embankment," or Russia's "Boardwalk," is full of vacationers and beautiful Devyshka's (girls) parading, promenading, roller-blading, bicycling and just plain sashaying in their eye-catching, top-of-the-line fashions up and down the asphalt lanes wending among the many bars, cafes, night clubs and restaurants by the sand beaches of this summer playground. Tourists are welcomed on the many pleasure craft that ply the placid waters of the mile-wide Volga, and the long boats go on cruises that extend anywhere from 1 hour to 1 week. Visit Stalin's World-War-2 hideaway, see Lenin's childhood home, walk through a war museum, or go inside the Soyuz rocketship. There are many things to do on a tour of this area (Samara-Togliatti) of the land described as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

Business Services - Volga Merchants

Need information about business opportunites, a visa, or want to start a branch of your business in oil-boom-fueled emerging economic power Russia? We will help you with the documents, translation and registration, and all phases of incorporation.

Samara Girls - Volga Girls

SamaraGirl is an international dating service. You can meet select, verified Russian ladies looking for overseas attachments. Write via e-mail to introduce yourself, engage in the translator-assisted phone chat, then come to Russia for a face-to-face meeting. We will help you all along the way, from translation of letters, to pickup at the airport, arrangement of accomodations and your first date with your Russian friend.