Mesha vs Hear2Rise

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

Hear2Rise is an innovative flashcard App, where simplicity is King. Unlike other Apps that incorporate images and text, Hear2Rise focuses exclusively on Audio. This simple approach yields powerful results, making the tasks of creating, using, and sharing cards simple beyond compare. Want to learn Spanish? Just dictate the Spanish words and corresponding translation into the App, one after the other, using our simple UI (user interface). Already know Spanish and want to learn French? Just do the same thing, dictate the Spanish word followed by the French translation. Want to learn (or have your child learn) the times table? Again, just dictate your “Challenge” and the corresponding “Response”, and that’s it! You could literally create 20 cards in less than a minute! Once created, your deck is synced to the cloud, making your library available on multiple devices; you can even share your deck with friends. When doing mundane activities like taking a walk or riding a train, you can use our auto-play feature to learn your deck; you can set it to shuffle, continuously loop, and repeat each card multiple times before proceeding. Just set your preferences, press go, and let the learning begin! When reviewing cards one by one, you can mark your mastery of each card as strong, weak, or in between, and then filter your playback by its’ marked mastery level. Each card has a Challenge and associated Response. The application of this is endless. Some examples of decks you could easily create are: • Take a study guide and record the question (Challenge) and the answer (Response). Then play it back to master them. • Learn technical terms • Learn languages • Learn math facts and formulas • Store trivia cards • Memorize theater lines (via Series Mode) • Memorize biology processes like the Krebs Cycle (via Series Mode) • Memorize case law for law school • Memorize chemical equations If you can hear it, you can learn it!