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| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6256 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes  Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 25 of 50 15 July 2010 at 2:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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For those who are more interested in input, not output, the iPad can be ideal since you cannot be so easily
distracted by multitasking such as checking your email, &c. 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 26 of 50 15 July 2010 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's what I call desparately looking for reasons to buy something... 2 persons have 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 27 of 50 15 July 2010 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
I respect his opinion, hehe, it's just the problem that it isn't factually true as far as I know. Checking email is one of the few tasks that you can easily multi-task, it happens in the background. I assume you can put the device in Airplane mode (as I am so aggravated to have to do with my iPhone to make sure no one calls/texts/emails me in the middle of a Pimsleur lesson or shadowing session!), but then you lose access to any online content, video, streaming radio in target language, etc. and dictionaries not storing their data locally. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 28 of 50 16 July 2010 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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The iPad can do most of what I use my computer for but it can be continuously used for
over 10 hours without being recharged and weights much less than my laptop. Since I can carry thousands of PDFs with me and annotate them as much as I want I do not need to bring a lot of physical books everywhere I go anymore. Listening to content while reading is also very easy on the device and many high end dictionaries are available on it. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6760 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 29 of 50 16 July 2010 at 11:49am | IP Logged | |||||
And if you use iPod headphones or a compatible set, you can play and pause audio tracks while reading the textbook PDF in another app. At the moment, I'm trying to decide if Bento would make a good vocabulary database app or not. 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 30 of 50 16 July 2010 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It seems that everyone here who has an iPad and uses it for their language studies is
pretty happy with it.... right? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6760 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 31 of 50 16 July 2010 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, but I recommend the 3G version in particular so you can check online dictionaries, Wikipedia, and this forum wherever you are at any moment. :) 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 32 of 50 18 July 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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How about Japanese input? I know you can easily switch between languages, but can you
easily switch between keyboards? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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