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  • Great app - poor visuals

    The app is great and could potentially be wonderful academically and within speech therapy. The pictures are gorgeous, when you set the app to just show two choices. When you set for 4 choices you can only see the top two images. When you set for 6 or 8 images/choices all of the pictures are shrunk in the vertical plane but not in the horizontal, resulting in very distorted images that are often unrecognizable. App needs some tech support.
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  • No more sound!

    This is a very useful app for language learners. What happened to the sound? Sound is half its effectiveness when used in a classroom because it frees instructors to work with others. Bring back the sound, please!
  • Needs pro narrator, pro educator

    This app shows promise, but suffers from its choice of a non-standard female narrator for pronunciation of the vocabulary items. I tried the first level, fruits, and found at least three words with the accent placed on the “wrong” (nonstandard dialect?) syllable:

    Pomegranate
    Grapefruit
    Pineapple

    Not as noticable but still disappointing to my ear: the clarity of the first-syllable accent in “lemon” vs that in “cherry.” Is the speaker just bored or what?

    Of course, some (many?) users (or their parents) will find the pronunciation less of a focus than do I, who can’t recommend this app to students of English as a foreign language, where I think it might have a market if re-recorded.

    But in that case it would also be advisable to automatically play the pronunciation of the new word on each page and have the spelling display only as an option button, to improve listening comprehension skills. That would be just the opposite of the app’s present design: spelling displayed automatically, pronunciation an option.

    Finally, for a teaching tool the app is a lazy teacher. It’s more of a post-lesson quiz than an attempt to introduce new vocabulary items in an attention-holding way, even if the picture are superficially attractive. As such, it may appeal more to test-conscious parents than to their kids.
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  • I love it

    Would be the perfect app if it had more easy sentances for words and in some cases better definitions but other than that a good app. Oh and an offline feature would be great.
  • Awesome

    Using this to prepare for grad school admissions test.... I upload every word I come across into the app and it teaches them better than any other method.
  • Incredible App.

    One of the app which one must possess in order to keep oneself alive in this ever changing world to learn new words.....I downloaded this app because I dont want to be retarded. .!!!!!
  • Good choice

    I do not listen why pronunciation is why but I am satisfied with overall good quality. I used the other flash card application, but I prefer this one. I feel more practical.
  • Good

    It is very encouraging for those that don't like getting overwhelmed by too much words in a piece of paper. It really raises the bar of vocabulary learning and makes it more effective because it is in a form of a game.
  • Great

    If you are enough interested to learn the meaning of English words then it's probably the best app for you! Just try it
  • Nice

    It makes sure you have mastered all of the essential and advanced words you need to know before going to the next level, Also, by challenging others you will automatically learn a lot.

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