An Improvement of the Hyper Dictionary

By last year, the following functions and information had been established in the Hyper Dictionary[6]: Indo-European roots, prefixes, stems, synonyms, example sentences, applications for study, and interim transitional words. The purposes of this research were to add voices to the Hyper Dictionary and to improve it. There is already a variety of functions in the Hyper Dictionary, especially Indo-European roots, but it has few multimedia functions, and it seemed that its contents were weak as an online dictionary. It is said that the best way to learn English is to speak English in general, and many books and websites about the great effectiveness of pronunciation are published[7][8]. Indo-European is a virtual language, so it is thought that pronunciation inherited from Indo-European roots to present English is significant. Therefore, voices were added to the Hyper Dictionary, putting a stress on learning English.[9]

Figure 1: Indo-European Roots

Figure 2: An Example Page of the Hyper Dictionary 2003