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| Blunderstein Triglot Pro Member Sweden schackhandeln.se Joined 5446 days ago 60 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 26 08 April 2010 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me, Windows Mobile-based smartphones are a major part of my language learning. I use the Pocket PC version of Supermemo (an SRS application). I've also used various dictionaries.
If I only wanted an SRS, perhaps I would go for some other platform. However, I also use some other Pocket PC programs that I couldn't live without. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 18 of 26 08 April 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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My boyfriend has an iPhone and I borrow it when I need to look up Chinese characters
while reading dead-tree books. It is much faster to draw characters rather than to try to figure out their pronunciation, or to figure out their radical, stroke count and use both to look up the character in a dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5697 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 19 of 26 08 April 2010 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have recently bought an HTC Legend running Android, and have put onto it ANKI, and a bunch of PDFs with grammar summaries and a lot of audio recordings (plus it has an FM radio built in).
I am very happy with it because it is a little smaller and lots more robust than an iPhone (and therefore fits easily in the pocket of my jeans) and it doesn't lock me in to the apple store and itunes (I can just put on it whatever I want very easily). Plus, of course, lots of the software is free of charge for Android phones. I used to think that my MP3 player was all I needed for language learning on the move, but I must admit that the extra facilities of the smartphone mean that I don't use my MP3 player very much now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| buhrahyun Newbie United States Joined 5382 days ago 24 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 26 08 April 2010 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
I also recommend Android based smartphones. I have an 'old' G1 which is a huge part of my Spanish learning. The features I use most are *(Free) AnkiDroid (Anki SRS for Android) *(Free) Streaming radio apps for radio in your taget language anywhere you have internet. *mp3's of FSI (Free) and Pimsleur (not free) PDF's should not be a problem. There is a built in app for YouTube which is more efficient than using the browser. There are multilingual dictionaries available. I also plan on getting an FM transmitter that plugs into the headphone jack so that I can listen to radio from around the world in my car via the internet on my phone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5677 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 21 of 26 06 May 2012 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found a great app on Google Play called Mobile Radio Live that lets you tune in to radio from all over the world. It's free (ad sponsored, although the ads are discreet and easily ignored) but if there was a paid version I'd get it. For now I'm just happy I can listen radio in my languages at work instead of the BBC Radio 2 they always have on in the office! :-)
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| John524 Newbie United States Joined 4806 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 22 of 26 08 May 2012 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Just to add to that: there's another great Android app, that I've been using a lot to
listen to French radio, called TuneIn Radio. It allows you to search for radio stations by language, making it excellent for music, news, and talk shows in any language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4657 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 26 08 May 2012 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a Droid X running the Android system and I'm always finding new and fun ways to
integrate it into my language learning.I'm using it for the following: - Playing MP3's (Pimsleur, Michel Thomas, etc.) - AnkiDroid (for SRS) - Google Translate - Podcasts (SpanishPod101 and others) - Spanish free apps (I usually learn something new, but not a lot) - Spanish games (Spanish Smash!) I could load Destinos onto it, but I prefer watching it on my tablet. Reading PDF's on the Droid X is a little too tedious, so I just use my tablet or put them on the Kindle. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5481 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 24 of 26 08 May 2012 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
TuneIn Radio is a great app. Allows you to listen to thousands of radio stations from around the world. It's available for Apple devices as well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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