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 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 2728 days ago 261 posts - 86 votes  Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 16 20 September 2010 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
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If you could have a better or new original smartphone app to help the learning process,
what would it be? Are phones limited to Flashcard/SRS apps? I have tried a few apps. Most are phrase or flashcards. I would like to write an app. I have been programming for a long time and would like to combine this with language learning. | |
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 2243 days ago 1241 posts - 1116 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 16 20 September 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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I have two suggestions:
1. StarDict client for the IPhone that runs in the background A customizable foreign language popup dictionary for ebook readers such as Stanza and eReader would make reading books in foreign languages much easier. I'd love to see a popup StarDict client (or other DICT client) that works in all iPhone apps. (There used to be free IPhone StarDict client, but it was pulled from the App Store and didn't have a popup feature.) 2. IPhone port of the Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer The original 1.1. version (written in Perl) has been GPL'ed and can be downloaded here. To give you an idea how it works, check out the AraFlex web site, which uses the same source code. | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 2304 days ago 3971 posts - 3827 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 16 20 September 2010 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
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I use my iPad for my language study needs. I take notes, I read pdfs, I watch videos, I listen to podcasts, I use the internet, I use flashcards, etc.
I would love to have an app designed to organize my language study. It could provide access to all my language files, allow me to document my objectives, to plan study sessions and list the documents I need to work on ahead of time, or even keep track of what I do and how long I study for. | |
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 2592 days ago 1062 posts - 2209 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 16 20 September 2010 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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For the past month or so I have been using a fantastic application for the iPad, called
iAnnotate It lets you highlight and annotate pdf documents very easily, and I have found it really helps me to work with texts that are not quite comprehensible. Here is the procedure I follow: As I read through a text, I highlight the words I don't know (this is done with a sweep of the finger and is about as simple as using a highlighter pen). Then I take a second pass through the text, and look up the highlighted words in a dictionary, then annotate the word with its definition. Importantly, the annotations can be hidden and revealed at will. So, I tend to hide the annotations, as I read the text a third time. When I see a highlighted word, I try to recollect its meaning, and if I cannot recall it I just touch it with my finger and the annotation (i.e. definition) pops up. Of course, once you know a word well, you can delete a highlight and an annotation with a couple of touches. Once you have finished annotating a document you can create a summary - of the highlighted words and their definitions. I use this as a word list for additional study. It reminds me a little of the way LingQ works, except that I do not have to be online, and I can add content very easily. The only downside, compared to LingQ, is that the annotations are not shared across multiple documents - so that I may end up redefining the same forgotten word in several places (still, I suppose the repetition is helpful in drilling the word). Overall, this has proven to be a fantastic tool for working with authentic texts (so long as I have them in pdf of course) and particularly for managing unknown words quite painlessly. I recommend it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 2934 days ago 4400 posts - 3257 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 16 20 September 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
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A script trainer for Kanji/Hanzi/Kana etc. Programmed with form and stroke order and able to prompt you from different levels.
It would start by showing the symbol drawn, then ask you to trace. It would progress to showing the symbol, then blank and ask you to write it. It would then progress on to prompting you with spoken form and/or pinyin/romaji, leaving you to recall the pictograph form from memory. Not quite sure the best way of making sure the student knows the meaning of the word, but I figure the best use of touchscreen is in calligraphy practice. You may need to have different sensitivity settings for finger and stylus though. | |
| budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 2728 days ago 261 posts - 86 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 16 20 September 2010 at 9:30pm | IP Logged |
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Great recommendations so far! Keep them coming.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 2304 days ago 3971 posts - 3827 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 16 20 September 2010 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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An application the allows language learners to meet in real time in a virtual café, so to speak, and to chat in the language they are learning! The Virtual Language Café ;)
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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4086 days ago 484 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 8 of 16 21 September 2010 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
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I'd suggest you develop for a Linux-based mobile OS. :)
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