If there’s a student in your home who’s signed up for a foreign language class in school, that kid’s in luck! Today’s foreign language students have fun, interactive apps to help them master their subject.
Human Japanese (ages 13 and up, 5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99, and currently comes bundled with $1 Amazon MP3 store credit) – Learn Japanese with real linguistic and cultural understanding with the Human Japanese app for Android. Human Japanese presents the Japanese language from square one in a warm, engaging tone, instead of just repeating canned phrases. This app goes much deeper than just vocabulary drawing into the real mechanics of the language, all the while maintaining a light tone and a sense of humor.
The goal of Human Japanese is to lay the foundation for real linguistic and cultural understanding for students learning Japanese. The app focuses on helping the student understand the core engine of the language, giving clear explanations of key concepts and making frequent comparisons to aspects of English that are similar. Human Japanese will impress you with its warmth, beauty, and wit. Try it today.
TenguGo Japanese Kana (ages 9 and up, 4.5/5 stars, currently FREE, and currently comes bundled with $1 Amazon MP3 store credit) – TenguGo Japanese Kana (Hiragana and Katakana) features everything you need to learn how to read and write hiragana and Katakana. The app is organized in easy to learn chapters with quizzes and flashcards for review. Progressively learn the kana as well as their history and usage. Integrated with Facebook and Twitter.
Noyo Spanish Vocabulary Builder – Beginner (for children, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99, and currently comes bundled with $1 Amazon MP3 store credit) – Noyo Spanish Vocab Builder is a powerful vocabulary builder for beginning Spanish learners. This app features more than 1,800 words and phrases, each reinforced by supporting audio, visual representation, and written translation. Other features include:
• 194 custom-illustrated scenes, packed with friendly characters and amusing scenarios • Audio by a professional voice artist who is a native Spanish speaker • 8 targeted units, featuring vocabulary related to food, travel, the city, house and home, seasons, animals, school, and sports. • Built-in assessment questions at the end of each unit • Intuitive, user-friendly navigation system
Noyo is easy to use. Just tap an item within a scene to hear the Spanish pronunciation and view a written translation of the word or phrase. When you’re finished exploring all the items in the scene, slide your finger across your tablet’s screen to access the next scene in the unit. At the end of each unit, track your vocabulary-learning progress by answering built-in assessment questions.
ABC German For Beginners (all ages, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents, and currently comes bundled with $1 Amazon MP3 store credit) – Look, listen, learn, and touch – a great way to learn German!
Touch the picture and word that match. Test yourself on hundreds and hundreds of words. Listen to how the word is spoken. Compete with your friends by completing the puzzle with the fastest time and fewest errors! When used as part of a German-language education, this simple “match the words to pictures” exercise helps you to remember basic words in German.
This application has a good mix of nouns, adjectives and verbs. All nouns are introduced with their respective definite articles – die, der, and das.
The same developer offers ABC French For Beginners, ABC Italian For Beginners and ABC Spanish for Beginners, all currently at the same 99 cent pricetag, all currently bundled with a $1 Amazon MP3 Store credit, and all rated 4/5 stars or higher.
German English Dictionary & Translator (all ages, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – German English Dictionary & Translator is a fast offline dictionary. The apps’ features include voice pronunciation, more than 280,000 translation pairs, quick search while typing, phrases details accompanying words, and Google Translate integration. You can scroll through the whole dictionary, and customize the color schemes.
Thanks to apps like these, learning a foreign language has never been easier, or more fun!