Issues
For some reason the sound won’t play anymore (I’ve had the app about a week and a half) and restart etc doesn’t help. It was great up until then. I wish there was a help/support option
Extraordinary resource on iPhone - Pronunciation doesn’t work for me on iPad
Absolutely love the revisions and new version of this. Wish pronunciation worked for me on ipad as well as it does on iPhone. As a newbie to this beautiful language, I look forward to learning with this tool in my tool belt.
Excellent!
This is a fantastic resource. The pronunciation recordings are invaluable and I can’t praise the format and navigation enough. Thank you for creating this! A language as beautiful as Lakota must be preserved for all our benefit.
Still supported?
The app is great; I use it quite often.
I notice though that it hasn’t been update for some time. Is this app no longer being supported? I know the LLC website it mentions going through the web browser and saving it to the home screen, which iOS isn’t letting me do (asked at an Apple Store and they said I couldn’t do this, so I assume it’s not just me).
I notice though that it hasn’t been update for some time. Is this app no longer being supported? I know the LLC website it mentions going through the web browser and saving it to the home screen, which iOS isn’t letting me do (asked at an Apple Store and they said I couldn’t do this, so I assume it’s not just me).
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Bummer
The male female pronunciation shut down. That is the main learning process for me.
V2.0
I was told to purchase 2.0, because the previous version was terrible. I was hesitant. It took me a year. So far the app has shut down my phone twice when it did finally open I did a word search and clicked the sound to hear the pronunciation and it shut off my phone. Then I tried again and the speaker icon doesn’t work there is no sound on this. I’m so disappointed.
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Needs better navigation
When I’m in an entry and I click on another word it would be nice to be able to swipe or use the arrow back to go back to where I navigated from to go between pages rather than swiping and it goes to the next alphabetical entry. I know it’s a dictionary but it would be nice to have some text about letter sounds and piecing together sentences correctly since it’s different from the English order. That’s where I have a problem with the example sentences clicking on a word to see what it is and then not being able to nav back to where I was without re-searching the page I was at
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Needs improvement, a lot of improvement
The application is confusing to understand.
NLD V2 update
This is a review for New Lakota Dictionary, particularly after the very recent V2 update. A previous update was attempted by the LLC in April of this year, and unfortunately issues with that revision caused some major headaches and may have shaded the dictionary reputation slightly.
I’m happy to report that it appears whatever coding errors that took place have been rectified with V2. The dictionary now works absolutely fantastic. Many new words and phrases have been added, along with their recordings, so what is unique about thus dictionary, the ability to hear the words spoken by male and female voices remains a huge benefit. There is really no other Lakota dictionary to compare it to. I sincerely do not know how folks learn this beautiful language without this dictionary; it is indispensable.
Some fixes: I don’t notice the delay when typing words beginning with “F” or “u” anymore- an issue that plagued V1. The favorites button DOES work, and a great pre-copy function in the search has been added. This allows you to copy a word from the search bar into another phone function- say, an email or a text. To me this is subtle encouragement. The dictionary is designed for you to USE the language - in texts, emails, and other written modalities, along with being spoken. Writing strengthens reading, reading strengthens speaking. The “review” function (small down arrow located on the right in the search bar) allows you to bring up words you have previously searched, something I personally lobbied for, as this function did not work on my phone in V1, although it did for most others. This function is awesome and I’m grateful for the fix. Another issue with the previous version was the inability to search for words that included a glottal stop (indicated by an apostrophe “ ‘ “ in the SLO. This has been fixed as well!
There has to be something to complain about- the only thing that is seemingly bothersome is that there are still words appearing in the entries and full text example sentences that you cannot click on and look up. You can still type them in the search of course, but many words can be looked up straight from the entry. There are still many that can not. Also, idiomatic phrases are super important, but phrases that appear in a list cannot be clicked on to look up, except as individual words. It would be great in the next update to be able to click on the whole phrase to be taken to the entry.
I use this dictionary day in and day out. As a serious Lakȟótiyapi student, I find it irreplaceable. It’s an amazing resource and I’m grateful for the work that went into its creation, from the fluent speakers who provided many of the example sentences, to Uŋčí Ella Deloria for her text corpus, that makes up many other example sentences, to Lekší Ben Black Bear, Leksí Kevin Locke, Haŋkáši Iris Eagle Chasing- all of whom (and others as well!) grace us with their voices in the app, and of course all those at the LLC that put the tech work in to make it happen- an incomparable undertaking. Looking forward to investigating the app even more!
Michael Rossi
Phoenix. Arizona
I’m happy to report that it appears whatever coding errors that took place have been rectified with V2. The dictionary now works absolutely fantastic. Many new words and phrases have been added, along with their recordings, so what is unique about thus dictionary, the ability to hear the words spoken by male and female voices remains a huge benefit. There is really no other Lakota dictionary to compare it to. I sincerely do not know how folks learn this beautiful language without this dictionary; it is indispensable.
Some fixes: I don’t notice the delay when typing words beginning with “F” or “u” anymore- an issue that plagued V1. The favorites button DOES work, and a great pre-copy function in the search has been added. This allows you to copy a word from the search bar into another phone function- say, an email or a text. To me this is subtle encouragement. The dictionary is designed for you to USE the language - in texts, emails, and other written modalities, along with being spoken. Writing strengthens reading, reading strengthens speaking. The “review” function (small down arrow located on the right in the search bar) allows you to bring up words you have previously searched, something I personally lobbied for, as this function did not work on my phone in V1, although it did for most others. This function is awesome and I’m grateful for the fix. Another issue with the previous version was the inability to search for words that included a glottal stop (indicated by an apostrophe “ ‘ “ in the SLO. This has been fixed as well!
There has to be something to complain about- the only thing that is seemingly bothersome is that there are still words appearing in the entries and full text example sentences that you cannot click on and look up. You can still type them in the search of course, but many words can be looked up straight from the entry. There are still many that can not. Also, idiomatic phrases are super important, but phrases that appear in a list cannot be clicked on to look up, except as individual words. It would be great in the next update to be able to click on the whole phrase to be taken to the entry.
I use this dictionary day in and day out. As a serious Lakȟótiyapi student, I find it irreplaceable. It’s an amazing resource and I’m grateful for the work that went into its creation, from the fluent speakers who provided many of the example sentences, to Uŋčí Ella Deloria for her text corpus, that makes up many other example sentences, to Lekší Ben Black Bear, Leksí Kevin Locke, Haŋkáši Iris Eagle Chasing- all of whom (and others as well!) grace us with their voices in the app, and of course all those at the LLC that put the tech work in to make it happen- an incomparable undertaking. Looking forward to investigating the app even more!
Michael Rossi
Phoenix. Arizona
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Deleting soon
App is very frustrating to use. Needs to be updated. I’d rather take the time to search on kiwichoiye than refer to the dictionary for the newly added words. The app won’t allow me to view the word I’m searching for and instead leads me to a different word. I cannot tap on any of the datives for further conjugation and the words with male and female pronunciation say entirely different words. Disappointed in the neglect of some simple app structure/development.
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Response from developer
We are sorry for the poor experience and we hope you will update your app to the latest version 2.0. Please visit the iTunes store and download the latest update. If you have any issues with the update, please let us know immediately and we can help troubleshoot the problems. Please let us know if this app update is successful and that your dictionary is working. We hope that it works for you and that you will reconsider your review.
