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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5936 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes  Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 1 of 5 02 December 2013 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
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I''ve joined the tablet frenzy somewhat late, but have found a gem for language learning: Duolingo, a free
app that I found very good. I''ve been searching Google Play Store for other free apps, but not many goodness come up. I was wondering what other apps, paid or free, people are using. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5041 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 5 02 December 2013 at 12:04pm | IP Logged |
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There have been several threads on this, one of them started by me:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=35695&PN=1 But there were a few more, taking more into acount Android (I only have personal experience with ipad). There is really a lot to choose from but, unfortunately, most apps primarily aimed at language learners are crap. But there are some totally awesome tools, which I have mentioned in the thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4266 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 3 of 5 02 December 2013 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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I have an Android phone, but the difference between doesn't really mean anything.
I will tell about all apps somewhat connected to languages. Let's go then: musiXmatch, music player with convenient way to look into song's lyrics. I use it with PowerAMP, but if you don't care about connectivity to last.fm, musiXmatch will be just enough. Moon+ Reader and GoldenDict. Of course, you can as well use them separately as a reader and dictionary, but my purpose is to show that you can connect them. I did that and now I'm able to look for word's meanings just by relatively long tap on it. Both versions are free and have their limitations, but you can always look for cracked apps or just pay, eh? I also have Duolingo, so, I assume, I can carry on without a link to it. To be honest, I'm starting to think that this app is overrated, but maybe it's just my laziness :) Smart AudioBook Player - it is a priceless app. I went through last three Harry Potter books, Michel Thomas and many other good stuff with it. Even free version is good enough to be called "smart", I guarantee it. Aglona Reader. The thread that lead me to this app is here. Now to actual language learning apps which barely has other functions: Memrise. I do know that Anki also could do it, but for me Anki is super-boring, I wont even give a link for it. Memrise can be really entertaining sometimes and it literally built on other people's experience. Babbel apps (German one, for example). This one is somewhat more serious than Memrise and it's provided by non-free language-learning site. But these apps are free and you'll see if they are useful. It's all about vocabulary and its applying. LingLing (German one, for example) is a funny way, really funny way. The app is far from being perfect but it still can help a lot if you want to learn words to be able to tell its translation really fast. It's all about vocabulary, but there are breaks for casual games allowing you to relax a bit and so on. Now to really specific apps: LinguaLeo is originally Russian app for learning English. Maybe it could be useful to someone, but desktop site is much better and entertaining. Немецкий за 7 уроков (German in 7 lessons) is another originally Russian app for learning German. Actually, team of SpeakASAP.com made similar programs also for English, Spanish, French and Czech. I don't think that anyone would be translating and adapting this for another languages but Russian, but someone can try to learn basic rules of these languages from Russian and feel the difference :) King of German Article and Der Die Das. Both have free versions, first one also has Pro version, but I'm satisfied with free one anyway. Both are far from being perfect, but if vocabulary and learning doesn't work for you well, you can try these two. Learn Swedish looks boring as hell, but if you're eager to do something about Swedish if would be a decent start anyway. P.S. I also should mention Swype keyboard. It's not free, but it has free time and if you having conversations on your tablet/phone and don't want to make too many mistakes, these smart keyboards and its languages can really help. P.P.S. I didn't expect this post to be that long :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5991 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 02 December 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged |
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Another way to approach this is to see what native speakers of your target L2 actually use.
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| Chris13 Groupie FinlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4083 days ago 53 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 5 of 5 03 December 2013 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
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I've never used it as I don't have anything which supports apps. I know that given the reviews it seems to be getting, that if I did have something that supported them and felt like learning Spanish I'd definitely give this one a go.
http://www.catacademy.com/ It's just a shame it only supports Spanish at the moment. I guess it's flawed if you are a dog lover, but I'm a cat lover so I'm safe. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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