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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 25 of 33 21 April 2013 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! I found, and I think I mentioned, a similar German one and was looking for a
French one. By the way, there is a ton of blogs and other sources which review English based apps. Would anyone know of similar for others? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 26 of 33 10 May 2013 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Some more things I discovered in the Appstore (some of them accidentally):
French and Spanish: 1. Conjugaison by Bordas Totally awesome, worth every cent (costs 0,89 euro). Easy to use, comprehensive, gives not only the conjugation but as well synonymes and basic explanations of forming and uses of various tenses. Basically the same app, just with different look and perhaps less info, by Brewalan Le Dru (called Le Conjugueur) is avilable for the same price. And this author made the same thing for Spanish (El Conjugador). 2. Le Robert Dixel Mobile Looks awesome, I'm going to buy it at the end of the month if I have six euros left (I need money for the book fair next week :-) ). A huge monolingual dictionary (they say 250 000 definitions, 12000 phrases and idioms,etc) with plenty examples and it looks comfortable to use. I know, a lot of things can be found for free on the internet, but I use my iPad often offline while travelling. And the price for such a huge dictionary is awesome, the paper version costs five times as much. 3. Some of the Didier textbooks have nice looking iPad exercises They have these for their courses Mobile A1, Mobile A2 and Nouvel Edito B1. The only one missing is the Nouvel Edito B2 which I would like to try. 4. Teach Yourself courses (only French and Spanish so far) As often, these apps are "free", which means you get a small taste before buying it. I tried the Spanish demo and I liked it. I consider buying the full version. The course has dialogues with audio, exercises (both multiple choice like and writing in) and a function to record yourself for correction (I haven't tried this so far). It costs twelve euro, which is much less than the book with audio. But I wonder how much content is actually there, especially compared to the traditional form of the course. It might be an excellent tool if there is enough content. and, at the end, one app which I do NOT recommend: Learn-French Tres Bien by Adam Williams. It is just another mediocre flashcard thing which dares to ask money for a ridiculously small amount of words. I tried the demo because the info about the app was proud of including medical French. Well, one hundred words or so are not a reason to buy an app for me, not even if it costed one cent. Tomorrow, I'll write about a few apps for German, English and Latin P.S. I still love and use the most the Anki app. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Daved Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4200 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 27 of 33 29 May 2013 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you guys recommend Quizlet, I'm moving to Germany in 2 days and I will only have an iPad so that kinda rules out Anki. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 28 of 33 29 May 2013 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you can't afford the Anki App, than it should serve. But I didn't like it much.
I see that my "tomorrow" from the last post turned out to be quite long. Doesn't matter. When I have time, I'll make up for the delay, I promise :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4655 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 29 of 33 30 May 2013 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have Anki, but if I had to use a different iPad app, would use Flashcards ++. I tried a bunch of different flashcard
apps, and that was the best alternate to Anki that I could find. Another option is Brainscape. I didn't really try them out, but they look like they have a lot of potential. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 30 of 33 30 May 2013 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you decide that Anki's not for you on the iPad and find another SRS flashcard app,
I'd like to point out something I've recently run into with the latest version of Anki (desktop) and exporting decks for use in another program. While I can export all my decks from Anki to import into another program, I've found that Anki version 2.x will also export any behind-the-scenes markup along with your decks, so that'll have to be scrubbed before you import it into your other flashcard app and that can be time consuming. I found this out because I recently bought what is now considered old tech (a 5 inch UMPC running full Linux). I would have preferred running Anki on it, but I need to upgrade all the QT libraries that Anki uses, which also involves updating other, more critical underlying libraries, and I just haven't had the time (or desire, really) to go through that excercise. You mentioned dictionaries, and I absolutely love having an offline, yet online-capable dictionary at my fingertips. I use Goldendict and love it. I don't think that's available for the iPad, but there are workalikes available. It's basically one program that houses all your dictionaries, so when you tap/click on a word, it'll bring up any and all definitions you have in all your dictionaries. R. == 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3410 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 33 06 August 2015 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
I have the app and you can change your cards on the app. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4442 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 32 of 33 07 August 2015 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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What people can do with their iPad, they can do similar things with an iPod or iPhone. The features are similar except for the screen size. When entering words & phrases in foreign languages, I can go to settings on a MacBook and add additional keyboards in different languages.
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