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From: gil@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Gil Neiger)
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Subject: Arabic Teaching Program
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 10:34:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 15 10:34:22 1987
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A friend of mine is looking for a software package for a personal computer
that teaches Arabic, or will facilitate the teaching of Arabic (i.e., that
could provide drills or something like that).  Someone is considering giving
a grant to her school to purchase such a system and he (the potential donor)
seems to want or prefer three things (all of which may be mutually exclusive):

	1) It should run on an IBM PC (this is not at all necessary).
	2) It should recognize Arabic as more than just visual patterns.
	   I think by this she means that it should be able to recognize
	   words, misspellings, etc.
	3) It should allow "handwriting" (and recognition) of Arabic with
	   a something like a light pen.

My understanding is that (2) above is the most important.  the closest I've
been able to come is a "MacWrite" with an Arabic keyboard.  Can anyone be
of any further assistance?  Thanks in advance.

				- Gil Neiger
				  gil@svax.cs.cornell.edu