Spanish Phrases 24/7 Language Learning

This app is a great way to begin Spanish. I love it and it was consistent with my first year Spanish class.

FhericbThu, Jun 14, 2012

United States

One of the most useful apps that I have downloaded. This is really giving me a good start in learning Spanish. Thanks!

samlagBestWed, Feb 22, 2012

United States

I'm really impressed by the methods used in these apps. What a great way to learn! I've bought both the vocabulary and phrases apps. Some aspects of the app that are really helpful are the score keeping and priority feature. The app displays your current score per quiz method for each category. That way you can easily track your progress. The priority feature allows you to just be tested on the words you need more pracrice with. This let's you optimize your time and focus on the most important items. There are several learning functions, each with a progressive level of difficulty. The inclusion of audio pronunciation for every word and phrase is perfect. This is so important for language learning. In this app you can hear the word at any point in the app where you encounter it. The first function, study list, is similar to what most apps of this type provide: Spanish words along with spoken audio. Most apps just have this and little else but this app includes so much more. The next function is the multiple choice quiz which is relatively easy because you can often narrow it down to a couple possibilities by process of elimination. A good way to use this quiz is to just listen to the audio rather than look a the text of the Spanish, then choose the answer. That way you can really improve your speech recognition abilities. The function I like the best, the puzzle quiz, is similar to the classic hangman game where you select letters from the alphabet and the app fills in the word or phrase outline. This is really a fun method. You can cheat by listening to the audio and I usually do this initially rather than give up when I can't remember, esssntially making it an audio transciption test. The write in quiz is the most difficult. It includes an option to show a line that indicates for each letter entered, whether it's correct or not. I really like this because for a new word it's often so hard to enter it exactly correctly the first time. After a couple interations I can usually turn off the option and spell the word from memory.

jony1112Thu, Feb 16, 2012

United States

For $8 + tax you can buy an entire book on Spanish. I was expecting maybe half of that in convenient portable package to use while in Mexico and not connected to 3G. This contains nothing more than what can be found in a small pocket size guide (the size of an iPhone) and it is not any easier to search than such a guide. I wish I had checked the quality of the vocab app before purchasing the phrase app as well. I have never written a review before, so the fact that I am should indicate how strongly I feel.

BccanfieldSun, Feb 12, 2012

United States

Hardly anything more than the free version. A real disappointment... I hope they will add more in an update.

AgarikonSun, Jul 17, 2011

United States

(Before update) Almost the very first phrase I look at is misspelled. There it is, buenAs dias instead of buenOs dias. (After Update) It's been fixed and is definitely more trustworthy. It uses a very good word list and is a useful way to learn. I work with it frequestly. I very much appreciate the little phrases and expressions that are used in everyday Spanish. This is much more useful than just a list of interesting idioms and dicho.

KinkazoteTue, Jun 29, 2010

United States

The young lady's voice on this application is pleasant to listen to and is easy to understand. Give her a raise! The young man speaks entirely to fast and his tone of voice gives one the impression that he would rather be somewhere else, he sounds angry! His pronuciations are very difficult to understand. And, there is at least one quiz which has a question in which you will fail despite your correct answer. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Trekrider!Tue, May 11, 2010

United States