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iPron
Category: Education
Released: Oct 05, 2009
Price: $0.99
Description:
A really useful application tool for English language learners, language teachers, linguists and those interested in pronunciation and phonetics.
This application allows users to hear and learn the sounds and symbols of english Received Pronunciation ‘RP’ as defined by the International Phonetic Alphabet. The sounds are laid out, grouped into vowels, consonants and diphthongs, the user simply presses the symbol to hear the sound.
In this way the user learns the phonetic alphabet and improves both their own pronunciation by hearing clear models of all the sounds used in spoken English, can understand and use the phonetic symbols found in dictionaries, language learning books and language courses and also can have a reference tool to use at any time when they are uncertain about how a word is pronounced.
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FlashCards – English, French, Portuguese Edition
Category: Education
Released: Oct 15, 2009
Price: $0.99
Description:
FlashCards for Kids is a simple, yet fun, e-learning application for anyone who wants to improve English, French, and Portuguese vocabulary.
Audio pronunciations are available for ALL three languages. To enable Portuguese or French audio pronunciations, open the “Settings” screen and set one of those languages as the Primary language.
Features include:
* Colorful, clear pictures have been created or obtained from royalty-free image libraries for this application. Looking at the great pictures is part of the fun for kids!
* English, Portuguese, and French words are shown simultaneously on the screen. If you already know one of these languages, this makes learning other languages much simpler.
* The big, central sound button allows you to repeat audio pronunciations. When this button is pressed, the system auto-pauses, allowing you to hear the pronunciation as many times as you wish.
* Pause/play button in the lower right corner of the screen allows you to stop the slide rotation so that you can focus on a word.
* Using your fingers, you can manually advance or rewind slides. Please note that the app must be in “pause” mode for this.
* Words are organized into Easy and Medium categories, for beginners and continuing learners. Easy words are mostly one-syllable and some very common two-syllable words.
* A settings screen, where you can set the default language, which is the language that you will hear when audio is enabled.
* Professional Portuguese pronunciation for all Portuguese words when Portuguese is set as the Primary language.
* Professional French pronunciation for all French words when French is set as the Primary language.
* Professional English pronunciation for all English words when English is set as the Primary language.
* Autoplay of sounds can be enabled or disabled. If enabled, every word will be pronounced by a pre-recorded voice for the language shown.
* Time between slides can be set lower or higher, in case you need more time to read the words, you if you just want to zip through them quickly.
* You may completely turn off all sounds, if desired. This is great if you want to review your flashcards in church.
* You may turn off other languages, if you just want to focus on one particular language.
iPod touch users: an external microphone is required for sound recording.
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Latin Proverbs
Category: Education
Released: Oct 02, 2009
Price: $1.99
Description:
Have the App-ian Way at Your Fingertips!
Enjoy proverbs from the Old World to the New Testament and beyond in English, Latin, or both languages, right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
The Latin Proverbs app features:
1,188 proverbs, sayings, and mottoes from ancient to modern times.
Browse proverbs by subjects, authors (90+), or works (125+).
Get a different proverb every time you launch the app. View other proverbs with a swipe of your finger.
Read proverbs in English, Latin, English/Latin, or Latin/English. Change your preference at any time.
Latin contains macrons (long marks).
Proverbs include Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, and Vulgate, too!
Authors include: Julius Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Theodore Roosevelt, Vergil, and dozens more.
Selected works include quotations from: the Aeneid, Seneca’s Epistles, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Odes of Horace, Vulgate Latin versions of both Old and New Testaments, and many, many more.
Use the app even if you don’t know Latin. Stuck for a toast? Want to write something clever in a greeting card? Interested in reading some of the best one-liners of all time in English AND in Latin? Find the perfect expression in English (with Latin translation) at the right time in seconds with Latin Proverbs.
From Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (www.bolchazy.com).
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Portuguese Word of the Day
Category: Education
Released: Oct 19, 2009
Price: Free
Description:
Start improving your Portuguese today with this easy to use application. Learn daily with this app to improve your Portuguese vocabulary (verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs).
The application is free.
• Portuguese word with English translation
• Sample sentence showing the usage of the new word
• The data gets updated daily
• Word types
• OS 3.0 Ready
This app requires a network connection.
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Latin Word of the Day
Category: Education
Released: Oct 19, 2009
Price: Free
Description:
Start improving your Latin today with this easy to use application. Learn daily with this app to improve your Latin vocabulary (verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs).
The application is free.
• Latin word with English translation
• Sample sentence showing the usage of the new word
• The data gets updated daily
• Word types
• OS 3.0 Ready
This app requires a network connection.
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