Description
Learn 50 languages for free using your native language!
50languages.com contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with a basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge, you will learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations in no time.
The 50languages method successfully combines audio and text for effective language learning.
50languages corresponds to the Common European Framework levels A1 and A2 and is therefore suitable for all types of schools and students. The audio files can also be effectively used as a supplement in language schools and language courses. Adults who have learned a language in school can refresh their knowledge using 50languages.
50languages is available in over 40 languages and in approximately 1600 language combinations, e.g. German to English, English to Spanish, Spanish to Chinese etc.
The 100 lessons help you to quickly learn and use a foreign language in various situations (e.g. in a hotel or restaurant, on a vacation, small talk, getting to know people, shopping, at the doctor, at the bank etc.). You can download the audio files from www.50languages.com to your mp3-player and listen to them anywhere – at a bus stop or a train station, in the car, and during a lunch break! To get the most out of 50languages, learn one lesson a day and regularly repeat what you have already learned in previous lessons.
Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French Georgian German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese
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Customer Reviews
Pretty Good
This app and the Book2 apps share common roots. They both pull from the same source material. This app covers the material pretty well and has a nice testing feature using word lists and flash cards (the Book2 apps focus more on playing the lists for you and sleep training with no real testing).
All of the feature (word list, flash cards, and testing) work pretty well, but I'd like to see a way to move from lesson to lesson without having to go back up to the top tier list every time. Also, oddly - sometime, when in a word list/test/etc. pressing the learn button would take me back up tot the lesson selection but sometime it would take me all the way back to language selection! I don't know why! The whole mechanism for drilling into the material and backing out was a little clumsy. There is no click or indication when you press a button, and sometimes there is a slight lag or delay - even on an iPhone 4s! It made the whole app feel kind of sluggish and that shouldn't be in a simple app like this!
The testing feature is a little different - it presents you with a choice - show the text or hear the audio, then you select your answer from the one of the four items below. This is ok, but it's usually easy to see which item stands out. And I really wish the lesson number wasn't included as a possible question. Also - when you select your answer it turns green or red, but then nothing until the next question is loaded. You can keep pressing buttons or whatever until this happens and it happens kind of slowly. It makes the app feel a little unpolished, unfinished.
When you use the "my score" button - it shows you your scores, but by list group, not individual lesson. So if you take the test in lists 1 through 10 and you score 10 on each of them, you will see 10 entries telling you that you score 10 on 1-10. You don't know what lesson each entry is about. I'd like to see that display the specific lesson, not the group list.
The Facebook/Twitter integration is interesting, but not particularly meaningful to me. No fault of the app, but I don't feel a need to broadcast my results to the world. :)
Overall it's pretty good, but I think the app could be sped up a bit and could be a little more polished than it currently is. I also think the full language downloads are a little more expensive than they should be, but the price is subject to opinion! Its a good and useful app and makes a nice companion/counterpoint to the book2 app or as a solo learning tool.
Pretty good
I found (by playing with the different languages offered in this app) that some of the audio parts are "robot sounding". (with what I am using I did not have this problem)
However. I feel that the roboty voices should be replaced with real voices. As for the translations (to English in this case) not all are literally word for word. Be aware of that.
ilikeit
Fairly good...
Good method of learning, I think. I am currently learning Afrikaans with this app. I find it very effective and have memorized the first part. This may be because I have only done the first part so far.
I do have one thing to say, though. You should not say it is free. On the description of the app, it is said that it is free. This is true, but it should be added that you have to pay for 80 more lessons.
Overall, it is a good app.
- Free
- Category: Education
- Released: Jan 06, 2012
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 5.4 MB
- Languages: English, German
- Seller: Johannes Schumann
- © Goethe-Verlag München
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Top In-App Purchases
- English Language Package$2.99
- French Language Package$2.99
- Spanish Language Package$2.99
- Hebrew Language Package$2.99
- Japanese Language Package$2.99
- Danish Language Package$2.99
- Georgian Language Package$2.99
- Italian Language Package$2.99
- Latvian Language Package$2.99
- Vietnamese Language Package$2.99
