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josht
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 Message 17 of 50
31 May 2010 at 4:02pm | IP Logged 
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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18 June 2010 at 7:30am | IP Logged 
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.
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18 June 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged 
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
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28 June 2010 at 12:50am | IP Logged 
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++
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28 June 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged 
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.
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 Message 22 of 50
13 July 2010 at 8:11am | IP Logged 
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.
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 Message 23 of 50
14 July 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged 
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.


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14 July 2010 at 11:44pm | IP Logged 
Arekkusu wrote:
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.





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!

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