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| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 1 of 20 16 April 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||
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So I am rather new at seriously trying to learn French and am also fairly new at using my iPad. I know there is
Anki on there, in addition to numerous flash-card programs, but I am not using anki at this stage (though I own the app and will probably use it in the future) I was wondering if anyone has used their ipad, or any tablet for that matter, to help the language learning process? I'm trying to start utilising my ipad a lot more so I thought integrating it into my learning process may help. These are the uses I've come up with so far
Are there any things that are obvious that I am leaving out? Does anyone know if it is possible to use draw something in other languages? If not, that would be a great learning tool. Merci! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| camdo2 Newbie United States Joined 4674 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 20 16 April 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Podcasts? Don't count those out.
I personally use flash cards, web browsing, and reading books in the TL. I don't really know of any other uses other than the ones you listed above. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 3 of 20 16 April 2012 at 12:11am | IP Logged | ||
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oh of course podcasts! I don't know how I forgot those. I suppose I mentally lumped them in with music.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 20 16 April 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I prefer to read on my Kindle dedicated e-ink reader. While the Kindle e-ink will take scanned pdf's, unfortunately, it doesn't render them in a very readable way without cropping the pages and altering them. It's a hassle. Some simply formatted, ocr'ed, pdf's can be converted with Calibre software into Kindle mobi format quite well.
I prefer my tablet for pdf's with associated mp3's. For those who don't like to read on their desktop or laptop computer, the tablet is much more comfortable and portable. A tablet eliminates the expense one would spend on printing and binding FSI/DLI pdf's and allows for simultaneous listening and reading with mp3 capability more comfortably. Downside: not good in the outdoors there's too much glare, eyestrain is still a problem with tablets. Upside, internet, podcasts, mp3's, pdf's. Edited by iguanamon on 16 April 2012 at 12:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 20 16 April 2012 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have one and I survive just fine:)
Though I love that app on my dad's tablet PC that repeats what you say in a funny voice. Might make your pronunciation mistakes more obvious, hehe. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 6 of 20 16 April 2012 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh iguanamon I know what you mean. I got my kindle at the start of 2011 and love it so much. I'm definitely glad
that I picked a kindle when I did, because it's an amazing thing and I love reading on it! I have no doubt, however, if I had gotten an ipad at the time I would have completely put buying a kindle out of my mind. I had never thought of running OCR on some pdfs and putting them on my kindle. I might just have a look at that, though most of the PDFs I have are things I want to annotate a great deal so they're better on the ipad. Thanks for the suggestions guys. I promise I did do a search for ipad and didn't get anything coming up. I just realised there is a thread with iphone and ipad apps in it, so I suppose that is a better place for me to ask. That thread can be found: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=21005&PN=1&TPN=1 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Aquila Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5480 days ago 104 posts - 128 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: French | Message 7 of 20 17 April 2012 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I discovered an open source program called LWT (learning with texts). I use this on my
tablet and I find it a very helpfull tool to practise reading and to acquire vocabulary. One disadvantage is that it's only suitable for short texts. When I read complete books I use the iBooks app wich I find also very nice. I am also a very big fan of Anki, but I find it more comfortable to use Anki on my smartphone. Furthermore, I make a lot of use of dictionaries on both my tablet and smartphone, but also of online dictionaries. Edited by Aquila on 17 April 2012 at 4:30pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 8 of 20 17 April 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||
I haven't sent many pdf's to my kindle, but I have found that they work better if you don't have the kindle convert them. They don't quite fit on the screen, but if you change the view to landscape, it works quite well, and it keeps all of the original formatting this way. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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