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| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5050 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 41 of 50 16 February 2011 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just bought Anki from the app store, definitely worth it guys! Thanks for the recomondations here.
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| theallstar Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5794 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 42 of 50 09 March 2011 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about apps for Farsi? I've seen quite a few on the app store but most don't seem to have been reviewed. I'm usually quite hesitant to download something if no one has left any feedback...
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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6906 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 43 of 50 24 February 2012 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thread resurrection! (hope no-one minds)
Here are some of the most useful iphone applications I've found. Japanese Sensei - Really helpful for increasing your vocabulary. It has around 10, 000 words with audio and example sentences (also with audio). The words are arranged according to frequency and split into lessons with 10 words. There are several types of exercises to test yourself: multiple choice quiz, sentence test where you see the English translation and click on the words to put them in order), fill-in-the-gaps particle quiz, word match where you draw a line and match the English with the japanese and memory test where you flip over cards and match the reading/audio with the kanji/kana. It uses the same source as smart.fm for the words but it includes a few thousand more than smart.fm. It doesn't take a lot of time to do one lesson and I feel it's really useful for someone past the beginner stage who wants to improve their vocabulary. It also has a method of tagging cards which can then be reviewed by the tags. I use this for learning vocabulary from authentic material. Japanese from codefromtokyo - A good dictionary with more than 150, 000 words. It also has animated stroke order for 2, 800 kanji. When you look up a word you can see example sentences, conjugation and what kanji is used in the word. When you look up a kanji it lists the components/radicals, common compounds, similar kanji and references what books this kanji is listed in as well as the entry number. It also has pre-made vocabulary lists arranged by subject (fashion, economics etc) and lexical category (onomatopoeia, proverbs, counters etc). You can also make your own flashcards and test them in both directions. I've found this invaluable for learning words from the Intermediate Kanji book (because it doesn't list the English translation). All you need to do to add a word is search for the japanese/english and then click on the relevant entry. It's really fast and has really helped cut down the amount of time I spend making flashcards. 韓国語組み立てTOWN - I haven't actually used this one myself but it sounds really good from the review I read. It's a Japanese app for learning Korean grammar. Here's the review by mezbup (source)
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| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5327 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 44 of 50 02 April 2012 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I regularly use SpeedUp Player Pro as a Mp3 player.
SpeedUp Player features: - Variable speed playback: 0.5X(half speed) - 2.5X (0.1X interval) - Preserve pitch(tone) while changing playback speed. - Play directly from your iPod collection. No conversion required. (supports music/podcasts/audiobooks) - Full iOS4 multitasking support. - Remote controller support. - Sleep timer (pause after 10/20/30/60/120 minutes) - A/B repeat : repeat interval using simple button press a. set A b. set B : repeat A-B c. cancel repeat - Configurable quick rewind/forward buttons. 4 buttons can be set individually. - Extremely fast iPod library browsing (disk+memory based cache) - Browse by album/artist/songs/playlists/podcasts - Simple playlist - Pause/resume on phone call(audio interruption). - Pause when headphone is unplugged. - Music tracks can be set to be played at 1X. What I like the best: rewind/forward by slicing your finger. Edited by Luk on 02 April 2012 at 10:20pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6574 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 45 of 50 03 April 2012 at 7:17am | IP Logged | ||
That sounds painful! The rest of the app sounds pretty great, though. Might give it a try. Thanks! EDIT: My new favorite app is BrainScape, by the way. It's a flashcard app with SRS-like functionality, but it's different in that it never tells you to stop. You just keep going and going, alternating new cards with repeating old ones. This makes it better than Anki for intensive study bursts, but less useful for long-term retention. I find it great for things like drilling conjugations and high-frequency vocabulary. The app is free, but you have to pay to get the ready-made decks, with French, Spanish and German vocab and grammar. The vocab cards come with audio, though some of them have mismatched sound, which is annoying. The company has said they're aware of the problem and working on it, however. Edited by Ari on 03 April 2012 at 7:21am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 46 of 50 03 April 2012 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Timetag is a good app to keep track of time used on your languages. Also available Timetag Desktop Mac Edited by Bjorn on 03 April 2012 at 10:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5661 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 47 of 50 03 April 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
That app sounds very good. Unfortunately, it appears that it only works on iOS4 (at least according to the developer's website). If it worked with iOS5 I would certainly buy it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5327 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 48 of 50 03 April 2012 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
You can use the buttons to rewind or move forward (I edited the options so it would move 5s back and 10s forward). This way you can repeat a word/phrase easily. To me is much more comfortable to use my fingers instead of the buttons. I'm not sure if the expression I used is correct: "slice your finger", is the same thing you do with the iPod/iPhone button. --Edit-- Slide! I had always thought it was "slice", and I knew what "slice" means. Some days my brain just doesn't work in English ;-) 
How do you say that then? "Slide with your finger"? Edited by Luk on 03 April 2012 at 11:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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