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This is an app for the Ipad market, the android version is not out yet but they are developing one. This seem excellent for ESL learners or those learning a foreign language. Over 1500 hand-picked words, phrases, audio clips, & pictures jam-packed into 50 lessons-your brain will always have something to chew on!

Great language app

A place to get young teens to write and even read!  Figment users-most of whom are between 13 and 24 years old-create a profile and upload their work, giving it a title and picking from a large selection of stock images to use as cover art. Other users can read the pieces online and leave comments and provide feedback. The site is free and there is capabilities to create educator/ group profiles to have privacy within your own class before making writings public.Rally good for self expression, releasing feelings thoughts and creativity.    

A new approach to providing more dynamic usage examples than you'll find in today's typically static English dictionaries. With it, users can search for a word and not only get sentences and audio pronunciations but also tagged and time-stamped videos of real people in real situations from YouTube speaking and using the word in context. Users can learn pronunciations more effectively by seeing the facial gestures needed to produce them and experience how words are really pronounced with other words and not just in isolation.

This app was developed by a teacher in Chicago at Whitney Young Magnet School. NoRedInk.com is a web-based learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills.

Created by someone in chicago