iPad Apps for Students Learning Languages Abroad
- Image via CrunchBase
Nowadays, the world already revolves in a modern and inventive lifestyle. Looking at how technology managed its status ten years back, it has increasingly become modernized and innovated in these present times.
For the information of many, iPhones are not the only multimedia gadgets where in applications are installed. A new modern device is currently released in the market today, and it is none other than the famous iPad. This invention is bigger than iPods and iPhones but a lot smaller than netbook. Almost similar with the two mentioned, iPad is a touch-screen tablet that allows users to browse the Web, send emails, store photos, watch videos, movies, and channels, and play music and games!
What makes iPad incredibly unique is that it is a lot better than iPhones. According Dan Frommer who wrote the difference between the iPad and the iPhone, most applications on iPhones and iPod Touch are games (82%) and utilities (16%); while iPad maximizes not just game apps (36%) but also content apps (28%, including videos and news), productivity (20%), and utilities (16% including weather). Even language apps are highly maximized in iPads especially to abroad students who want to practice their learned language.
The following list below indicates 15 iPad apps written by GIC Argentina. Feel free to browse.
- iPronounciation Pro
This is an app that helps you learn proper pronunciation of words via phonetic spelling. How? It is by displaying the proper spelling by allowing you to pronounce the given word.
- Scrabble
It’s the customary scrabble board game with a twist. This is a great tool to evaluate a learner’s vocabulary memorization. What make it totally exceptional are its animated features. Learners can enjoy a “3D” version of this application.
- Hello-Hello
This Spanish app is accessible to all Spanish lessons that learners can find in their own website. It has a live chat that learners can take advantage from and ask an online native speaker for lesson assistance.
- Google Translate
This is an accurate web-based service of Google where learners can translate words “on the run” without any limitations at all! This app is perfect for iPad due to its wider screen.
- CourseNotes
If you want a faster way of taking notes, this app is best for you. You can organize your notes, subjects, classes and time in an accessible way. It even has to-do-list and assignment features for a systematic approach.
- Netflix
This cool application is the easiest way to watch a movie while learning languages in one. This app gives access to local movies of your choice, and the best part of it is you can stream thousands of movies straight to your iPad!
- iBooks
If reading is more sufficient to you as a learner, then iBooks is perfect for you. By just accessing to iBookstore, you can get your own books written in the language of your choice. On the other hand, “bilingual books” are also available that features your native tongue on one page and another language on the next.
- Dragon Speaking
This is another application that features word pronunciation. This app is designed to speak and dictates your word into the text. The best of it is, this app is absolutely free!
- Voice Memos Recorder App
This app is a free voice recorder. Install this in your iPad and let the recording begins. To maximize its features, you can compare your pronunciation to a native speaker. With this, you can evaluate yourself and become improved with how you articulate your learned language.
- Good Reader for iPad
For a price of only $0.99, this fast and easy-to-use app can make you study your language lessons anytime, anywhere! This is an amazing app since it is compatible with text, HTML, audio, video, Word documents, and iWork files.
- Kayak Travel Planner
As a traveling student, you make plans into knowing the country you are headed to, right? Kayak is a wonderful app that helps you find the cheapest flights in your prospected country.
- 1,000 Ultimate Experiences
If you still haven’t decided where to study abroad, this application researches possible destinations and provide great advices in favorable exchange rate countries and reviews on what sights you want to see and where would you exactly stay.
- Flight Track
Having problems on flight schedules? This app keeps track all your flights without worrying possible delays or flight schedules. If you are a person who values time so much, this app is very much applicable to you.
- Street Maps
IPads actually have built-in maps in it as one of its basic features. Sad to say you cannot actually use it when there are signal interruptions. Street maps app is accessible even without signal, and that’s what makes it distinctive. Cities like Paris, New York and Buenos Aires are some of the cities in this app, so if you are one of these places, the app is highly usable.
- TruPhone
International calls are really very expensive when you contact your loved ones through cell phones. No worries, because this app will make your calls inexpensive by using VOIP calls. It will work at its best when used with a headset with mic and headphone.
So, do you have your iPads with you? Make use of your iPad in learning your languages abroad through installing these fifteen apps. You will not only improve yourself in the language you are learning, but you can also maximize the features these iPads are created for.
