Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4624 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 10 23 January 2012 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
Hi !
I've just bought a smartphone so I'm looking for some good Android applications for
language-learning.
Thanks :)
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5053 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 2 of 10 23 January 2012 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
Anki comes to mind.
There are also many, many dictionaries available for Android. A good PDF reader (I use the one included in QuickOffice, since it handles large files nicely.)
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5243 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: German*, English
| Message 3 of 10 23 January 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
Get the Kindle Android app. It comes with free monolingual dictionaries for French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English (US & UK).
You can then sideload free PD ebooks and read them with the popup dictionary.
(You'll need a junk email address if you don't already have an Amazon account.)
A StarDict compatible dictionary client such as GoldenDict might also be useful.
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NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4882 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese
| Message 4 of 10 24 January 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
Theres plenty of apps out there, however on mine I just use Anki, radio/tv apps and dictionaries, which there are quite a lot of.
If you are looking for apps specific to your TLs I would recommend spending a couple of hours just browsing through the marketplace, as there are lots of quality apps but also a lot more bad quality ones.
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Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4624 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 5 of 10 25 January 2012 at 12:17pm | IP Logged |
Thanks :)
My TLs are English (intermediate) and Korean (beginner).
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Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4624 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 6 of 10 26 January 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
I've bought this app for children which is pretty cool to learn hangeul :Korean
Handwriting (2€)
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roiyair Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 4596 days ago 9 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English
| Message 7 of 10 10 February 2012 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
Are there any multilingual dictionaries compatible with kindle? specifically a Spanish-
English one?
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5243 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: German*, English
| Message 8 of 10 10 February 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged |
roiyair wrote:
Are there any multilingual dictionaries compatible with kindle? specifically a Spanish-
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Pretty much any Latin alphabet based Mobipocket dictionary is compatible with the (hardware) Kindle. However, the Kindle apps for smartphones, PCs and Macs only support the monolingual dictionaries unless you hack the ASIN of your dictionary so that it matches one of the default dictionaries.
AFAIK, there are 2 free Spanish English dictionaries and both leave much to be desired:
1. Dave Slusher
2. Michael Sheldon
BTW, it's very easy to create Latin alphabet based lookup dictionaries for the Kindle from tab delimited text files, because both converters and authoring systems are freely available.
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