Mesha vs uTalk

Mesha: your essential GPA companion. Mesha is designed to help you learn any language using the Growing Participator Approach (GPA). This version of Mesha is free and allows you to add 100 items. To add more items, you buy In-App-Purchases or you can buy the already unlocked version here: http://plus.mesha.tk Watch a tutorial explaining how to use Mesha here: https://youtu.be/rsG2ZWuKRZ4 You can also see tutorials on the philosophy behind GPA here (http://www.mesha.tk/tutorials/GPA) and how to use Mesha for the recommended six-phase program (http://www.mesha.tk/tutorials/six-phases). ** Creating Collections ** Mesha makes it as easy and as fast as possible for you to record your sessions with your nurturer/teacher. In your GPA session, simply make a 'Collection' by tapping on on the '+' button in the home screen. Then add items to your collection, such as photos of objects, sketches, text or audio. ** Recording Audio ** To record the audio for these items, open this collection in Slideshow Mode by tapping on an item or by pressing the slideshow mode button. A key feature of Mesha is that it has two recording buttons. The Short Recording Button and the Long Recording Button. Use the Short Recording Button for single words and phrases. And use the Long Recording Button for full sentences, such as for stories, explanations and examples. For basic vocab items, tap the Short Recording button on the left hand side. Your nurturer can say this word or phrase aloud two or three times, And then you slide to the next item and the next recording will start automatically. For items with just plain text, you will want to do a long recording for each item where your nurturer explains gives explanations and examples. If the items are telling a story such as when you are using Lexicarry or wordless picture books and your nurturer is explaining the items in complete sentences, then you should choose the Long Recording button instead, on the right hand side. You can tap the Embed button as you are listening to create new items at that point in the story if you are uncertain of what a particular word is. Then you can review these embedded items with your nurturer in Slideshow Mode. These embedded words are added to the same collection as the story audio and are also viewable in the waveform in the slide for that audio. ** Vocab Review Mode ** To review individual vocab items, tap the 'Vocab Review' button at the bottom right of the home screen. This allows you to test yourself on items at set intervals which increase the more times that record that you know it correctly. First you will hear the word and see the image of it or hear the explanation. From then on, you will only hear the audio of the item. If you know it, swipe right and this word will be placed in a higher 'Spaced Repetition Box'. If you don't know it, or just want to check the meaning, you can swipe left and the explanation audio will be played or the picture will be shown. If you did know it correctly, tap on the 'Box' icon to mark that it was correct, otherwise the item will go back to 'Box' number 1 and you will review it more frequently to get you better acquainted with the item. Tap on the statistics at the bottom to see a graph of your progress. ** Story Review Mode ** This mode allows you to spend time listening to your stories in your target language. 'Stories' are items in Mesha which have a 'Long' Audio recording without a 'Short' Audio Recording. After you've finished listening, swipe right or tap the 'tick'. You can manually schedule the next time you'll listen to this story. It will save your position in the story if you close this window before it is finished. First you listen to stories that you have not listened to before and then it will display stories that you next need to review. Stories are displayed in the order they were recorded. For more help, email us at help@mesha.tk or visit https://www.facebook.com/MeshaApp

LEARN LANGUAGES FAST: uTalk gets results because every word you hear is in your new language and you speak, listen and understand from the start. With free starter words in 150+ languages, you can try it risk-free. Score 100% in the games and you can unlock an extra topic for free. WHY UTALK WORKS: 1. LEARN FROM THE LOCALS: We record native speakers so you hear every word pronounced clearly. Mimic their pronunciation and compare your intonation with theirs. Practise until you get it right – you can even slow the audio down if it’s too fast. 2. USEFUL EVERYDAY WORDS AND PHRASES. Topics take around two to three hours to complete. But you can dip in for just five minutes at a time or longer. With 60+ topics, that’s a total of 180 hours of learning. 3. KEEPS YOU MOTIVATED: Check your scores on progress bars as you move through five progressively difficult games. To get full marks, you’ll have to know the words as well as your own language. WHO’S IT FOR? uTalk’s tried and trusted way to learn a new language has been developed over 30 years and is perfect for beginners. But its wide-ranging language is also invaluable for intermediates looking to improve their vocabulary and pronunciation. HOW IT WORKS: Subscribe to everything on uTalk or buy individual languages or topics. The app automatically syncs between your devices. Work offline by downloading content. FIND YOUR LANGUAGE: A: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Arabic (Egypt, Gulf, Lebanon, Modern Standard, Morocco), Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani B: Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese C: Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chibemba, Chichewa, Chinese Mandarin, Cockney, Croatian, Czech D: Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha E: English (Australia, Canada, India, Scotland, UK, US), Esperanto, Estonian F: Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French (France & Canada) G: Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujarati H: Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian I: Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian J: Japanese, Javanese K: Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji & Sorani), Kutchi, Kyrgyz L: Ladino, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lingala, Luganda, Luxembourgish M: Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian N: Neapolitan, Nepali, Norwegian O: Odia, Oromo P: Papiamentu, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Nigerian), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil), Punjabi (India & Pakistan) R: Romanian, Russian S: Sami (Southern), Samoan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish (Spain, Argentina & Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German T: Tajiki, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen U: Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek V: Vietnamese W: Welsh, Wolof, Wu Chinese (Shanghainese) X: Xhosa Y: Yoruba Z: Zulu 60+ TOPICS: Accommodation, Adjectives, Alphabet, Animals, Bathroom, Body, Business, Calendar, Camping, Clothes, Colours, Cooking, Countries, Directions, Doctor, Driving, Emergencies, Family, Farming, Food, Fruit, Golf, Football, Holiday, Illness, Ingredients, Kitchen, Hobbies, Numbers, Occupations, Olympics, Prepositions, Restaurant, Sailing, School, Shopping, Skiing, Social Phrases, Sports, Technology, Transport Any questions? support@utalk.com. Visit us now at utalk.com Information about uTalk subscriptions A subscription to uTalk is £7.99 a month, or the equivalent in local currency. Subscriptions give you access to all of uTalk’s content, in every language Subscriptions last one month, and auto-renew every month unless cancelled Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period Subscriptions can be managed by you and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase Terms and Conditions - https://utalk.com/termsandconditions.html