                                              06/07/93

Welcome to Italian Assistant 5!

We are proud to present this release of Italian Assistant, which
includes powerful bi-directional translation capabilities.  Our
interactive approach to translation gives you, the user, the
opportunity to work with the computer to communicate in and
understand Italian.

Please run through the tutorial -- it takes less than 20 minutes,
and introduces you to all the major features of Italian
Assistant.

Although we try to recognize words without their accents, we
STRONGLY recommend ensuring that your Italian document is
accented correctly.

A final note:  Italian Assistant will help you translate. Used
properly, it can assist you in reading and writing Italian
documents.  However, if your document needs to sound like it was
"written by a native speaker", then you should use a professional
translator.  Italian Assistant alone is not appropriate for your
United Nations speech, or your advertising copy for that big
Italian product launch.

Thanks for your feedback and support.  We hope you enjoy using
the product as much as we enjoy developing it!

MicroTac Software
