Gipfel: Learn German

Gipfel is your handy tutor on your Handy, helping you practice German anywhere and anytime you want. -No adds -No login -No pawalls -Completely free Key features: Structured grammar explanations Reading exercises with True & False Cloze completion based on grammar, vocabulary and register Fully offline Offline Dictionary Offline listening exercises User can practice at any of A1, A2, B1 and B2 levels. Grammar exercises progress naturally from grammar explanation, spotting grammatical function to application and solidification. For practice, there many other cloze completion exercises with fill in the blanks option as well as “a,b,c,d selection” depending on the preferred difficulty. Those are of two kinds. First focuses on individual sentences the second is text reading. After a reading exercise users can learners can check their comprehension through True/False questions. The exercises focus on typical mistakes as well as grammar and vocabulary practice. Apart from those, there are also reading timed reading exercises focused on understanding from context. For listening there are diktat exercises, where user tries to catch a word in a spoken text. On device Text-to-Speech model is used, which makes the app small in size and offline. User can select one of four difficulties. There are also full text listening exercises. Vocabulary is an important part of learning new language. Apple provides high quality offline Oxford German and Duden-Wissensetz deutsche Sprache dictionaries to all iOS devices. (They can be downloaded in the Settings->General->Dictionary) Gipfel uses this feature and anytime you are not sure about a word, just tap the word and the dictionaries come for rescue. The unknown word is then stored to your Notebook, where you can explore it later. Your Notebook stores your words with the sentence for a context. Tapping a word reveals other sentences containing it as well as other close words in other sentences across the app. (In German, many words are derived by compounding or by adding a preposition.) User gets from that the idea of the word application in contexts. You can practice your words and sent them via e-mai, which is particularly handy, if you want to ask your real life teacher or a friend. Your Notebook also contains words where you made mistakes. For now, the app contains 354 exercises, most of whicha are grammar focused. In future, more reading exercises are comming.