Dear Colleagues, Istvan and I are writing to let you know that the Summer edition of the CALICO Review has just been published (http://astro.temple.edu/~jburston/CALICO/index.htm). We are particularly proud to bring you this volume, the most extensive ever: 15 reviews in all! Whether you are shopping for software for the Fall or just keeping abreast of what's available, you'll want to have a close look at these evaluations. There are three reviews of Spanish language programs (Encuentros, Advanced Spanish-DVD, Tesoros) two each for Italian (La neve nel bicchiere, Advanced Italian-DVD) and ESL (WinFriends, The Alphabet), plus French (Advanced French-DVD), German (German Now!), Portuguese (Beginning Brazilian Portuguese) and Kazakh (Beginning Kazakh). In addition, there are reviews of two authoring programs (NetQuiz/Dialogos, Interactive Language Learning) as well as a concordancer (Concordance). Finally, we have included the extensive comparison of WebCT and Blackboard which appeared recently as a Software Report in the CALICO Journal. As always, we're sure you will find these CALICO reviews the most comprehensive and up-to-date available. We all owe special thanks to the CALICO reviewers who give so generously of their time and effort to keep us so well informed. If you would like to join this distinguished team, please do complete the Reviewers' Register which can be found at the bottom of the page at the URL indicated above. Best wishes to all, ---------- Jack Burston, Ph.D. CALICO Software Review Editor College of Liberal Arts Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 Istvan Varkonyi, Ph.D. Assistant CALICO Software Review Editor College of Liberal Arts Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122