The Gadgeteer » Language http://the-gadgeteer.com Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Learn a Foreign Language on Your iPad – with Help from Your Friends http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/12/learn-a-foreign-language-on-your-ipad-with-help-from-your-friends/ http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/12/learn-a-foreign-language-on-your-ipad-with-help-from-your-friends/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:00:41 +0000 Janet Cloninger http://the-gadgeteer.com/?p=80472

Learning a foreign language on your own can be difficult because it’s almost impossible to tell if you’re pronouncing words correctly.  The Hello-Hello World iPad app offers language courses for 11 different languages, and it has a social aspect that can help you learn better and faster.  You can connect with friends who speak the language you’re trying to learn, and they can listen to recordings of you speaking and send you recorded corrections.  You can also have a Hello-Hello instructor critique your pronunciations and written work, if you like.  The app is free, but in-app purchases are apparently necessary;  they range from $10 to $60.  Right now, a Conversational course with 30 lessons and a Basic course for vocabulary training are available.  Lessons for Grammar, Verbs, and Travel are coming soon.

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Learn a Foreign Language on Your iPad – with Help from Your Friends originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on November 12, 2011 at 9:00 am.

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Star Trek’s Universal Translator is here!  The Vocre iPhone app from myLanguage “listens” to your sentence, translates it into the selected language, then speaks it.  It’s not instantaneous like the Universal Translator, but it’s close.  You can choose a male or female voice to speak the translation.  The speaking voice sounds like a human, not a machine.  Available languages are: English (United States, Australia, or United Kingdom accent), Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.  The Vocre app is free, and it comes with 10 free translations.  You purchase more translations with in-app purchases; 20 translations are $0.99 and 100 are $8.99.  Be aware that each phrase you speak and each your conversational partner speaks will count as one translation, so you won’t be using this to chat your way around the world unless you’re on the Forbes 400. The myLanguage website has a video demonstrating Vocre in action, if you missed the television commercial.

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Language Isn’t a Barrier with Vocre originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 22, 2011 at 8:25 am.

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language-pen

Brando brings us the 2 in 1 Language + MP3 pen. Use this pen to learn English or Mandarin. Comes with a book of 1200+ words and phrases. Scan the word or sentence with the pen to hear a loud and clear pronunciation of the word or sentence. The pen will also play .MP3 files when you’re not learning to speak a different language.

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Spotlight Gadget – 2-in-1 Language + MP3 Pen originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 23, 2009 at 12:04 pm.

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