Bagrut Lexicon - EFL Learner's Dictionary

The Bagrut Lexicon (by Geoff Toister, of GT-Lex) is a unique new EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learner's dictionary in which the entries are linked to practice exercises, on each pair of adjacent pages.

“Bagrut Lexicon is a 2,000 word EFL learner’s dictionary with all entries linked to sets of practice exercises. The words have been selected from a corpus of matriculation-level reading comprehension texts while the thought-provoking exercises are easy enough to ensure that most learners will complete them successfully. Bagrut Lexicon expands vocabulary, provides classroom-centered activities and is ideal for independent study. It may be ordered online from ofarimbooks.co.il”

The dictionary was created with our TLex Dictionary Compilation Software.

Bagrut Lexicon - EFL Learner's Dictionary (Dictionary on Left Pages, Exercises on Right)

List of latest software improvements (changelog)

Just a reminder to our software users that you can always keep up to date on the latest new features and improvements to the software at our changelog, we suggest you check now and again.

Another TshwaneDJe / Oxford University Press Dictionary Wins Award

The Oxford University Press Zulu - English / English - Zulu Bilingual Dictionary, created in partnership with TshwaneDJe (and created with TLex), has been awarded the South African Translators' Institute 2012 SATI Prize for Outstanding Translation Dictionary.


The primary editorial team for the dictionary was: Editor-in-Chief: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver; Chief compiler: Nomusa Sibiya; Linguist: Arnett Wilkes; Publishing manager: Megan Hall; Project manager and senior editor: Fred Pheiffer

This award follows on from our 2009 award for our Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho dictionary in the same series.

Version 2012 (and free upgrades) now available

Version 2012 of the following products is now available, and all 9-digit License Numbers have been updated for free to this latest version:

• TLex Suite (TshwaneLex)
• tlTerm Standalone
• tlCorpus Standalone
• tlDatabase

For a list of new features in these releases, please see the ChangeLog. There are well over 100 new features and improvements since the release of version 2010.

The procedure for obtaining the upgrade is as follows:

1. Go to our website's 'downloads' section
2. Select the relevant product download page for your license
3. Click on the download link, and follow the installation and activation instructions

If you don't know your 9-digit License Number(s), you can use the "Software License Recovery" tool accessible from the 'Support' section of our website, or from the downloads page. Alternatively, you may contact us to obtain your license numbers. (The 9-digit License Number allows you to automatically activate the software when installing. ALL customers' licenses have previously been assigned these 9-digit License Numbers.)

Please note that version 2012 is still backwards-compatible with ALL previous releases of our software going all the way back to version 1, so no users have been 'left behind' - all users can update to the latest versions.

Note that, as always, we recommend making a backup of your data before upgrading.

TLex 10th Birthday - Free Giveaways and Upgrades!

(Update 5 June 2012: Entries are now closed for the free software giveaways. The free TLex Suite 2012 upgrades will still apply.)


Monday 21 May 2012 marks 10 years since the first lines of code were laid down for the TLex Dictionary Compilation Software Suite (and thus, tlTerm, tlDatabase, tlCorpus). To celebrate this tenth "birthday", we are giving away the following free products and upgrades!


• 10x free TLex Suite (Lexicography) (full, unlimited version) apply here (TLex) »
• 10x free tlTerm Standalone (Terminology) apply here (tlTerm) »
• 10x free tlCorpus Standalone (Corpus Work) apply here (tlCorpus) »
• 10x free tlDatabase apply here (tlDatabase) »
• 10x free Swahili - English Electronic Dictionary apply here (SWAHILI) »
• 10x free Zulu - English Electronic Dictionary apply here (Zulu) »
• 10x free paperback 'Oxford Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho Dictionary (South Africans only) apply here (N. Sotho) »


(Applications close at midnight on Sunday 27 May 2012, GMT. Anyone may apply, including businesses.  See below for conditions *.)


Free Upgrade for ALL USERS to TLex Suite 2012


We also hereby pre-announce the upcoming TLex Suite 2012, and we will in the near future be giving away automatic free upgrades to version 2012 for ALL existing TLex (TshwaneLex), tlTerm, tlDatabase and tlCorpus users!


(Please feel free to continue buying from our online store - even though it currently still says 'version 2010', do not worry, you will be upgraded for free to version 2012!)


This will help clear up some of the "which version am I on?" confusion experienced by some users, and simplify the downloading and upgrading experience.


Please note that TLex Suite 2012 will be capable of loading dictionary database files from ALL older versions of TLex / TshwaneLex.


To obtain your free upgrade (NB: NOT AVAILABLE YET - this will be rolled out in the coming months), simply use the "Help/Check for updates" menu option as usual - once your license gets upgraded on our system, it should thereafter automatically redirect you to version 2012. Your existing 9-digit licenses numbers will still be applicable. (If you don't know your 9-digit license number, please use this form or contact us.)


Improvements in Version 2012


Improvements in version 2012 include performance and reliability improvements to the ODBC multi-user support, Mac ODBC support, a new 'Copy field' feature, 'Watch Folders' for auto-importing, various new command-line parameters for more advanced application control and scripting, new error checks, improvements to the Character Tool, and more. Improvements to tlCorpus include support for HTML files, Microsoft Word and PDF files (Windows-only), and various additional new commands. (See the changelog for more details.)


* Giveaway Conditions:

• The 'Oxford Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho Bilingual Dictionary' offer is only available for South Africans (you must supply a physical address). The free copies are '1st revision'.
• You may enter in multiple categories (e.g. for both tlTerm and TLex Suite).
• Maximum one entry per category allowed.
• Entries will be selected at random, but final discretion lies with TshwaneDJe. No correspondence will be entered into in this regard.
• Software licenses given away under this promotion have no free support included.
• You must provide all necessary contact details.

Upcoming TLex Presentation: AFRILEX 2012

The TLex Suite, and a variety of our other latest dictionary-related products (e.g. electronic/CD-ROM and Web-based dictionaries), will be featured at AFRILEX 2012 (2 - 5 July 2012).

The venue is the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Showcase: Oxford South African School Dictionary 3e: CD-ROM

We recently completed the development of the CD-ROM edition of the 'Oxford South African School Dictionary: 3rd Edition' for OUP. Features include:

• Colour illustrations and videos
• Listen to correct audio pronunciations of words, and record and play back your own pronunciation to hear the difference
• Find the meaning of a word even if you can't spell it
• Comprehensive activities (various exercises and games)
• An 'AutoFind' popup that automatically displays the entries for words while you read or write documents, emails or while you browse the Web

It was created using the TLex Electronic Dictionary Publishing software framework. The hardcopy edition was also created using the TLex Dictionary Compilation system. Contact us if you would like to see your own dictionary published this way!

Click here for more screenshots »

Upcoming TLex presentation

TLex will be featured in a guest talk by Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver on Wed 7 Dec (at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland):

http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/node/2872

"Giving dictionary users what they want: Dynamic, real-time content creation with TLex (TshwaneLex) - (the talk develops ideas introduced in the speaker's groundbreaking "Lexicographer's Dreams..." article, now demonstrating how the dreams can actually be implemented in a leading dictionary production suite; the talk applies to any language, but most examples will be from English)"

The venue is Collegium Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University.

Showcase: Longman HAT English - Afrikaans / Afrikaans - Engels

Two brand new 'Made with TLex' dictionaries: The Longman HAT English - Afrikaans / Afrikaans - Engels School Dictionary (Skoolwoordeboek) and Pocket Dictionary from Pearson Education.

Several advanced features of TLex were used extensively to streamline the production of these dictionaries, including, amongst others, the 'multiple dictionaries from one database' functionality as well as an advanced custom Lua-script-based partial-automated-reversal tailored for this dictionary.

Note we've been quiet on the blog lately because we've been busy - we have many other interesting new things we'll be showcasing here soon!

Recovering software registration details

Customers who have misplaced their software registration details, but are still in possession of the original email account the registration details were sent to, can now automatically recover their lost activation details via the following form:

Software registration details recovery »

This can also be used if you are not sure which version of a product you own.

If the original email account is not accessible to you, and you need to recover your software license details, then contact us instead.