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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6438 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 17 of 50 31 May 2010 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just a note regarding AnkiSRS's rather barebones feel: I'm one of the beta testers, and the beta version that the developer is working on is already much, much better than the 1.0 version on the App Store. He actually submitted the latest revisions to Apple a day or two ago, so they should be up soon.
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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6334 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 18 of 50 18 June 2010 at 7:30am | IP Logged | ||
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The app TVUPlayer iPad edition lets you watch various TV channels from around the world.
I haven't tried it yet but it seems quite interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5585 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 19 of 50 18 June 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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there is/was a tvu app for the iphone. The dekstop software is great but the iphone app
was pretty awful. Not many channels, not very good streams either 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| parasitius Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5990 days ago 220 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Cantonese, Polish, Spanish, French | Message 20 of 50 28 June 2010 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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RumTel is AWESOME! Unlike CCTV's crummy app (or crummy servers?) which can take 3 minutes
to cache a 30 second news clip, with RumTel on some of the Chinese channels I can just stream -- no skipping, no long wait for caching. So now I'm literally empowered to watch Chinese TV on a moment's notice anywhere =) LISTENING BOOST++ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| novemberain Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5836 days ago 59 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 21 of 50 28 June 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Smart.fm has iPhone app which is quite useful, however, I expect their drill application on their website running on
the iPad to be even more useful. Looking forward to putting my hands on the iPad, that form factor is exactly what I wanted all along for language learning. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6255 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 22 of 50 13 July 2010 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
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iSRS deserves a mention here, it's basically Mnemosyne on iPhone and the current release is pretty much complete. I picked up both this and AnkiSRS and at this point I prefer iSRS to AnkiSRS. If you like Mnemosyne I think iSRS is for you, it's a lot cheaper than AnkiSRS and has the simplicity that makes Mnemosyne so nice to use.
That said AnkiSRS is looking to add a lot of what I personally think it's badly missing over it's next 2 releases so if you prefer Anki it might be that AnkiSRS ends up better in the long term. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 23 of 50 14 July 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been thinking about getting the iPad for my Japanese studies, but I'm still not convinced it would do all I want it to. I can't help thinking I'm better off waiting for one of the upcoming Win7 tablets on the way.
First and foremost, I need to take handwritten notes and it has to work smoothly. I know there are lots of apps for that, but just how effective is it to take Japanese notes compared to simply using paper? If it worked well, the advantage would be to have all notes available all the time for easy and quick review. Over 3G, the Tangorin dictionary would be available at all times. Sweeeet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| parasitius Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5990 days ago 220 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Cantonese, Polish, Spanish, French | Message 24 of 50 14 July 2010 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Why anyone would even dream of considering a platform which won't allow pop-up dictionaries, or for example simultaneously playing an audio clip and viewing text / taking notes / accessing a dictionary, is beyond me. (All of which comes down to multi-tasking and sometimes pen/keyboard input.) I think the iPhone especially (I have one), and iPad to a lesser extent, if you don't have a external keyboard, are devices meant exclusively for the consumption of content. They're incompatible with efficiently producing content -- of which studying, imho, is one type (because you take notes or work with material which requires more work to understand than just hitting the play button). Every time I go back to doing things on my 2005 Dell Axim Windows Mobile device I'm reminded how infinitely easier it is to use for language study or content creation. Time spent on an iPhone to read one paragraph of foreign language text, look up 2 words in the dictionary, and then paste 1 key sentence into an SRS along with dictionary definition, for later study: probably 3-5 minutes. On my 2005 Axim? About 45 seconds. Languages an aspiring polyglot loses out on getting to learn within his lifetime for doing things 5x less efficiently? A lot! Edited by parasitius on 14 July 2010 at 11:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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