Customise language...

This menu item allows you to change exercise text prompts to another language.

Text prompts can be changed to partially customise JWM to languages other than English - the definition title (shown in the Find word, Edit word and New word dialogs) and exercise text prompts (shown when doing flashcard exercises) can be altered to any new language text. Since users can also enter their own definitions for words in any language (including English), JWM makes it very easy for Europeans and others to modify it to their own tastes.

Languages to which JWM can be customised include: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, Faeroese, Flemish, Irish, Albanian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Somali, Swahili, Ruanda, Rundi, Chewa, Malagasy, Welsh, Basque, Catalan, Latin, Quechua, Guarani and Aymara. It's difficult to imagine someone creating a Swahili-Japanese multimedia dictionary, but with JWM, it's possible.

The first text box on the Customise language dialog (shown in Figure 1 below) is the Definition title. The default is 'English:' (ie. designating that on the Find word, New word and Edit word dialogs, the definition of each Japanese word is in English).

Figure 1. The Customise language dialog

The other text boxes are used for exercise prompts - this ensures that almost everything that the non-English speaking Japanese language student is exposed to during flashcard exercises is their native language. This greatly improves their learning capacity, since users are more relaxed when using their native language (a relaxed attitude is profoundly important in promoting accelerated learning abilities). In the past, non-English speaking students had to learn the English meaning of a Japanese word and then translate it to their native tongue - a sometimes difficult and/or annoying task.

To reset the text prompts to their default English values, press the Set English defaults button.