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| Matt G Newbie United States Joined 4038 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 16 17 January 2014 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on an inexpensive tablet computer for language learning? Reliability is key, and I'd prefer something that easily supports pop-up foreign languages dictionaries, as well as video chat, etc. Are there any brands/models/or operating systems that I should definitely avoid? It doesn't have to be a 2014 model.
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4035 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 16 17 January 2014 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Acer Iconia Acer Iconia A1-810 7.9" has proven to be adequate for everything I have needed it. Apparently it's currently $120 in Amazon which is very very little for this device. It does support video chats due to two cameras of which the smaller is facing the user, and because it runs Android it's highly customizable.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5001 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 3 of 16 18 January 2014 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use a Samsung 10.1 but it was left over from a project so it cost me nothing
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4912 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 16 18 January 2014 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||
There are so many tablets out there now that you pretty much have your pick as to what you want and in any price range. I can't speak for iPads, but all relatively new Android tablets can handle what you want to do, as long as you stay with Ice Cream Sandwich and above, preferably Jelly Bean. Kit Kat is the latest, but you won't find any super inexpensive tablet with it installed, assuming by inexpensive, you're looking at ~100 dollars or so. Lots of pop-up dictionaries are available for Android. My favorite is Goldendict. It can accept a few different dictionary formats out there including Babylon, which I've found to be fairly complete (and many are free). If you are familiar enough with Android, this may not be so important, but make sure your tablet isn't so cheap as to not have the ability to load Google Play. That's where you'll find all your apps. If you feel comfortable with loading apps outside the Google Play ecosystem, there are plenty of other app stores, such as Amazon Appstore, 1Mobile, etc. You can find most apps in these stores/markets, although they may not be as up to date as what you'd find in Google Play. R. == 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Matt G Newbie United States Joined 4038 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 16 19 January 2014 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the suggestions - I appreciate it!
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4671 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 6 of 16 19 January 2014 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||
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The Kindle Paperwhite is awesome for reading. I use it more than a tablet, as it's
closer to "book size" and much easier to throw in my pack for use on the bus, plane, or at work. I strongly prefer kindles over any tablet for books. For documents, streaming, chat, or anything else, you need a tablet ... but if it fits your budget I'd get both. I have a first gen iPad, which works ok for streaming, but I think there are a lot better options these days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| reem2014 Newbie United Arab Emirates Joined 3744 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes | Message 7 of 16 20 January 2014 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wish you reach to a conclusion and find useful tables, to share it with us, as i am looking for the same.
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| Jheavner724 Decaglot Newbie United States Joined 3828 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Old English Studies: Vietnamese, Sign Language, Hindi, Sanskrit, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Arabic (Written) Studies: Macedonian, Mongolian, Tagalog | Message 8 of 16 21 January 2014 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think it particularly matters which tablet you use, though the app stores
available may be an issue. Any iPad, Nexus, Note or similar device should be sufficient. As long as it utilizes either the Android, Kindle, or Apple app store, you should be fine. You'll likely just read PDFs using the Acrobat application, listen to audio, watch video, read things using iBooks/Kindle/GooglePlayBooks, and use applications such as LingQ, Duolingo, or Memrise, which most mainstream tablets can do (some extremely inexpensive tablets may not be able to do such things). I have a Nexus 7 and it works very well. I've also used Kindles, iPads, Galaxies and a few lesser-known tablets (which often times are not a good choice, especially for language learning, in my experience at least). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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