OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
News of the Institute -- 2004

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SUMMARY
Books Completed
General History in Outline and Story.
Carl and Anna, a sophisticated German novel.
"The Basic Teacher's Guide"
Books Summarized or Partial
The Basic Teacher
Semantics
Bible in Basic English
Basic Step by Step
Projects
IDP Translation Dictionary
Terada's Method
Ogden's Word Wheel
Web Site and Features
Picturable words
various
DETAIL
Accomplishments of December 2004
• Add 11 chapters to General History , now complete, 78 chapters.
• Novel, Carl and Anna , add chapter 4 (of 6).
• Notes to Terada's Method, including ReadPlease
• Add Chapter 15, 16 to "The Basic Teacher" by L.W. Lockhart.
• Add instructions for other languages.
Accomplishments of November 2004
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added steps 42 to 45, completing his guide. - complete.
• Add 7 chapters to General History (now 67 of 77)
• Add a submission for Rhyme Groups.
• Summarization started of Semantics by Walpole. This may be a freshman version (ie, clear) of "Meaning of Meaning", with an Intro to Basic English.
Accomplishments of October 2004
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added step 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 . (now 41 of 45)
• Add 16 chapters to General History (now 60 of 77)
• Add Chapter 11-14, special topics (of chapters 36-41), and Lists to "The Basic Teacher" by L.W. Lockhart.
• Novel Carl and Anna, add chapter 3 (of 6).
Accomplishments of September 2004
• IDP Translation Issue version 0.4 which adds common British and American words (level 10) and accumulated updates. The vocabulary exceeds 26,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
  Unix, C++ programmers are needed to integrate this dictionary into Word Processing software packages -- OpenOffice.org, Abisoft, EasyOffice, KOffice, others.
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added steps 34 , 35 , 36 , 37.
• Add 7 chapters to General History (now 44 of 77)
• Why learn English? It is spoken by 90 nations
• Spelling rules for Basic and Intermediate Basic.
Accomplishments of August 2004
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added steps 29, 30, 31 , 32 , 33 .
• IDP Translation. add S. This completes work on version 0.3. The vocabulary exceeds 25,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Add 11 chapters to General History (now 37 of 77)
• Novel Carl and Anna, add chapter 2 (of 6).
• Update instructions for use of spell checker on OpenOffice.org Version 1.1.x
• Discussion of phonetic spelling. It need not be complex and can look like English. Mentions spelling reform which is not an Institute activity.
Accomplishments of July 2004
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added steps 25 through 28 .
• IDP Translation add R. The vocabulary now exceeds 23,912 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Add 8 chapters to General History (now 26 of 77)
Accomplishments of June 2004
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added steps 19, 20, 21, 23, 24.
• IDP Translation add E, I, P. The vocabulary now exceeds 23,250 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Add 4 chapters to General History.
Accomplishments of May 2004
• Setup for two new books: General History in Outline and Story. And Carl and Anna a sophisticated novel..
• A translator jobs registry has been started.
• An articles section has been added.
• Picturable words. has added more picture links.
• Ogden's Word Wheel by John Derry released version.03.
• "The Basic Teacher" by L.W. Lockhart added to steps (chapters) 6-10.
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide by Saburo Terada added to step 18.
• IDP Translation add suffix endings and F. The vocabulary now exceeds 21,400 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of April 2004
• Ogden's Word Wheel version.01 released by John Derry.
• Started "The Basic Teacher" by L.W. Lockhart for learners of Basic.
• Added more picture links to Picturable words.
• Continue adding words to IDP translation dictionary program. The vocabulary now exceeds 20,000 words, derivatives, spellings and meanings.
• "The Basic Teacher" Guide is started, by Saburo Terada at Sengendai, Koshigya City. Thur step 11.
Accomplishments of March 2004.
• Continue adding non-basic words to IDP translation dictionary program.
• Continue adding to BBE
• Terada Method of teaching added to Education Project.
      Note on free ReadPlease software to listen to Basic English.
Accomplishments of February 2004
• Continue adding non-Basic words to IDP : 'N' and special wordlists (A-C, J-L, Q, U-Z were there). 15,460 words and meanings.
• Complete the Gospels of BBE
• 21st Century Project -- International Internet and Computer words has found 37 words common in the principle languages.
Accomplishments of January 2004
• Continue adding non-basic words to IDP translation dictionary program.
• Added "Basic Picture Talks" by L.W.Lockhart to our sales inventory.
• Expanding Basic Step by Step , now that it is out of print.
• Added a number of books to the Bible in Basic English, some in story form.
Archives.
2003
2002
    Spell Checking wordlist. Open Office.org Suite.
    Translation English to Basic.

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