Spanish! App Reviews

In order to go in to test mode you have to view all of the words (many a few times) and click "Right" before you can go in to any sort of test mode. Or, I assume that is the case since Im not going to click right, then next 1400 or so times. If you have never spoken a word of Spanish, you may want to read all 1100 words but if this is to augment your other studies, dont waste your time.

App not worth it. If your a beginner you want to learn the basic, and a lot of the words would be useless to you. Pointless app and not good for beginners, you basically have to learn all the words (I would not recommend it for learning)

Useless and a waste of time and money. ZERO FING STARS!!!

Very helpful to have the pronunciations with the words. Like the other Flip programs, it makes learning a game.

So the only complaint that I have about this program is that it is distracting me from Andres other excellent application, Japanese Flip. This is the third application of his that I have downloaded, and they are all excellent. The addition of audio to this application is very helpful, hopefully he will go back and add it into his Japanese products.

Ur not going to learn the entire language with this app, but it is a cool way to bump up ur vocabulary when u have some downtime on the go.

Outstanding app. Fun, easy to use. The stat tracking is very smart and keeps throwing the right words at you. To Dev: Please add more words to the vocabulary! This would greatly increase the value, especially with such a common language (in my part of the world anway) as Spanish.

Excellent ap for learning vocabulary but a number of the words are not very practical - do I really need to know Spanish for abridgement, interweave, amass, hackneyed, and objurgate?? I dont even use those words in English! Would be nice if you could delete a word out that you dont care to learn because youd never use it. (When was the last time you used the word objurgate or hackneyed in a sentence??) Otherwise all in all a very good ap for learning vocabulary.

Ok, so I didnt learn that from the app. LOL. But I have learned a bunch of really useful words from listening and testing myself with this thing. Its scary smart. And yes, almost game like. Not boring when you have to beat your last score. I know, I know sounds nerdy. whatever. But its pretty addicting all the same. YAY!

Excellent concept, execution and tool. The only problem, which is a large one, is that many of the words I barely use in English, let alone Spanish. If you could delete words from the program it would be great seeing as my brain has a block against learning useless words and thus the ones I dont need keep on appearing. On the plus side you can make your own cards. My hope is that I will make enough new and useful cards to push out the useless ones.

NO FLEXIBILITY, THE WRITER CHOSE ODD WORDS, I KNEW THIS FROM ANOTHER REVIEW BUT IT LOOKED LIKED I COULD DELETE WORDS THAT I DID NOT WANT. YOU CAN ONLY DELETE WHAT YOU ENTER. YOUR ONLY CHOICES ARE: ALL WORDS -1101 WORDS AT ONCE WITH NO WAY TO REDUCE SIZE; NOUNS 589 WORDS AT ONCE WITH NO WAY TO REDUCE SIZE; VERBS 164 WORDS AT ONCE WITH NO WAY TO REDUCE SIZE; DESCRIPTIVE WORDS 348 WORDS AT ONCE WITH NO WAY TO REDUCE SIZE. THIS SAID ,IT IS MY OPION THAT THIS NOT WORT ANYTHING BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF FLEXIBILY. TOTALLY UNMANGEABLE. TO BAD WITH A LITTLE EFFORT ON THE DESIGNERS PART COULD BE A NICE APP- BECAUSE YOU CAN ADD YOUR WORDS.. I BOUGHT FLIPR AND AM MAKING MY OWN DATA BASE. YOU TYPE YOUR WORDS ON YOUR PC THEN ASK FOR THEM ON YOUR IPOD. WORKS WELL NOT PERFECT BUT LOOKS LIKE THE DEVELOPER IS WORKING ON IMPROVING THE PROGRAM. HOPE THIS SAVE SOMEONE A FEW BUCKS.

After I downloaded this app, I noticed right away that the user interface is so much better than all the other spanish apps Ive gotten. It gets right to business with teaching you the words in spanish. It doesnt have a bunch of stuff to get in the way. You start it up and you get going. You shut it down and it remembers where you left off. The audio sounds real authenic, and its clear, so I can replay it lots of times to hear it exactly like its supposed to be pronounced. I am very happy with this app.

some of the choice of words to drill upon is a bit odd for beginning to intermediate spanish students. Words like laconic and zealous come to mind that showed up in the first 10 seconds of looking through the translations. So far it seems to be helpful in keeping me brushed up on my Spanish and the recorded pronouciation is good.

Im enjoying the easy-to-use flash-card interface of the Spanish! application. The native speaker male voice pronouncing the words can be turned on and off. Ive been exposed to, and learned, some words in Spanish that I hardly knew in English. I use it a lot when Im waiting in line. Looking forward to being able to enter my own word sets in a future version. The author has been very responsive to my inquiries, and helpful answering my questions. Thank you!

I have many Spanish apps and this is one of the most effective for learning. However I do agree with others that an update that would enable me to block or delete words would make it perfect.

Pros: * Addictive and fun * Great logic in deciding what cards to show Cons: PLEASE FIX! * Mistakes: estudiar is to study, not to read! This is Spanish basics. Repeat is wrong too. * Horrible selection of words. I dont even know many of the English words. Id rather have words Id actually have a chance to use. At minimum let us delete these words. Suggestions for 2.0: * Ability to use app horizontally * Set of cards with conjugated verbs such as "he slept" or "they eat" * New selection of words more carefully selected

Hands down the best Spanish app for vocab study. The flashcards included have both easy and intermediate words all for $.99. Insane! Then you have the dude saying it in his perfectly Spanish voice. Its freaking fabulously good!

Thanks so much this is one the of the best Spanish apps ever! I dont know this yet but 2 things 1. Make all the stuff in the app not need wifi 2. Let you choose the word you need Now I can do better in Spanish thanks Devs :))

This would be an ok app if it wasnt for the fact that these are the most random, unusefull set of words that I have ever seen! I hardly use these words when I speak English! Dont buy this app, its a waste of a dollar.

Review The program has over a thousand words. Some of the words are easy, commonly used everyday words. Other words are used moderatally. There are even a few that are almost never used. This is done on purpose. The program is meant to be a vocabulary builder. If it had JUST the most common and basic words it would probably just reinforce the words you already know (If you have ever taken a Spanish class) instead of both reinforcing and expanding. It can be used by all levels, weather you are a beginner or an expert because, as I have said before, it is both reinforces and expands your vocabulary. Keep in mind that this program is purely for vocabulary and doesnt teach grammer and so forth. It has four different groups of vocabulary words: Nouns, Verbs, Descriptives, and all groups combined. It would be nice if the program also had a section for commony phrases. Some phrases like, "My name is...." or "How much does it cost?" and so on are used all the time and its good to have them memorized well enough that they just fall off the tip of your tongue. For every word that comes with the system there is an audio clip. For the most part, each word is spoken clearly but there are a few where it is difficult to understand the man that is speaking. For obvious reasons, any word that you add yourself will not have an audio clip. The words seem to correctly defined. However, there were some wierd ones. For example, I believe the program said that pen was a pluma. This is essentially correct but a "pluma" usually refers to a the type of pen used a long time ago because "pluma" in fact means "feather".While you can use "pluma" it is more common to say "boligrafo." The program allows you to add words to the program and is sure to let you know if the word is already in the system. My only real complaint is that when a noun is already in the system it comes up with a gray note, underneath the word, that tells you if the word is feminine or masculine, if the word doesnt show it clearly by ending with an -o or an -a. When you add your own word, it doesnt do that unless I just havent figured out how. The words are taught purely through the flash card method. It would be nice if it allowed you multiple ways of learning a word. It would also be nice if you could also be able to look at a list of words in each section. There are a lot of words and is annoying to flip through them all to find one word. Overall, the program is nice program for building vocabulary. You might want to consider using it in conjunction to "Spanish 24/7". Each program has its good and bad parts. For example, one good thing about this program is that it allows you to add your own words (Upcoming tests anyone?) and one good thing about the other program is the variety of methods it uses to teach a word.