"Desktop Poet presents you with your choice of hundreds of word tiles on your desktop or "virtual fridge" area. Compose imaginative prose by forming words into sentences or phrases or just take a break from the stresses of life and doodle or brainstorm to your heart's content."

"Language Assistant is a Macintosh application that gives organized, easy to follow access to several different dictionaries and a translation system that translates to and from English, French, German, Spanish, and many other languages, giving a total of 17 different languages and 272 language pairs."

"Infinite Vocab is a program for helping students increase their vocabulary in a foreign language. It is designed to be as efficient as possible in learning foreign words, and has several different ways of testing this knowledge. You enter your word list into the application once (or your teacher gives it to you on a disk or by e-mail, if he/she has taken an interest in IV), and then you can practice it unlimited. You can create your word list when studying a chapter, and then go back to it before the test, or when refreshing your knowledge in a language. Advanced features such as programmed learning, statistics and customized printing will make this program a winner, either in your classroom or in your home."

"Learning a foreign language can be difficult, but learning to speak a foreign language without sounding like a tourist may be even tougher. With Verbs and Nouns, you can enter as many words as you want, including sound samples and inflection markers. This helps you learn how to pronounce foreign words properly. The unregistered version is limited to 50 words. Additional language databases are available separately--in fact, you'll need to download at least one."

"Learning vocabulary is one of the hardest aspects of a foreign language. Easy and enjoyable to use, Vocab helps you quickly build the vocabulary you want. Whatever language you want to master, Vocab will prove invaluable. Vocab has won praise from language learners and teachers the world over. This powerful program is proving better than its competitors, and infinitely better than plodding through a dictionary." This program costs $18 to register and some features become disabled if it is not registered within 30 days.