It?s like attending the Olympics with your own personal guide!

iSpeak Chinese Phrasebook, Summer 2008 Edition, provides you with instant access to just the right Chinese word or phrase, as well as useful lexicon specific to the Games. With iSpeak Chinese Phrasebook downloaded into your iPod, you can make yourself understood quickly and confidently. That?s because with iSpeak Chinese, you both see and hear hundreds of words and phrases as they are spoken by native speakers.

Want to order a meal in Beijing? Find out what time the Opening Ceremony is? Or buy a ticket to the 100-meter butterfly? No problem: iSpeak gets you to the correct category, subcategory, and phrase--instantly!

Requires 300 MB of free space.

Put 1,600 Mandarin Chinese phrases in your pocket and enjoy one of sport's greatest spectacles without getting lost in translation.

Instead of just listening to the latest hit music, you can use your iPod to hear and see 1,600 essential Chinese phrases. It's as simple as listening to a song by your favorite artist:

1. Go to "Artist"--Choose the theme you want.
   
2. Go to "Album"--Select your topic within the theme.
   
3. Select the phrase you want to hear--You will not only hear the phrase but also see it on your iPod screen!
   

• Designed for use with iPod and iPhone.
  
• Screen images will vary between iPod models.
  
• Also compatible with Zune.
  
• Contains one MP3 audio disc and 64-page booklet.
  
• Requires 300MB of free space.
  

Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College specializing in technologies for second language acquisition. Currently he has been collaborating in CodeLab in development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as well as a standards-based framework and architecture for building database-driven web applications known as Harmoni. He has received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) that supports some of this work. He is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan.

Jin Zhang is a lecturer in Chinese at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.