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"Apps aren't just great for keeping you entertained, they can also be good for learning. This Discovering Chinese app is ideal for those who would like to learn the language of Chinese or even brush up on your Chinese skills."
"I've touched on the accessibility of iOS and expressed my appreciation of it in a previous post. But today I'm revisiting the topic with renewed fascination, thanks to a recent TUAW article about a new kind of iBooks e-book."
"The interactive comic, which is colorfully illustrated and has voice-overs in Mandarin Chinese and English, addresses a growing interest worldwide in learning Chinese and English. It is now available in the App Store in over 50 countries."
"Some of these apps illustrate the power of the iPad. These Shakespeare in Bits are the perfect combination of cool graphics and slick infotainment that many teachers are looking for to get their students excited about their subject. The comic feel of these apps doesn't take away from the power of the message or the human tragedy of the Shakespeare texts but what it does do, is to provide an entry point for students that are not familiar with the language or the concepts."
"Spanish is spoken in many countries around the world. The iPad can be a great friend in learning and translating Spanish. This AppList is aimed to showcase the very best Spanish learning and translating apps for the iPad"
"Just over a month ago, we launched Skitch for iPad, the amazingly fun and useful way to visually communicate using your tablet. Today, we have a great update (1.0.3) that includes a new shape tool, parental controls, more language support and lots of stability improvements. We also have some tips to share."
"a few new language learning apps are moving in on the "gamification" trend in education, making a game out of learning phrases and words. For young students accustomed to playing games during their off-hours from school, or for adults who have a few minutes to kill on the bus, these game apps are meant to help with casual, conversational language learning in languages like Spanish, Italian, French, German, Mandarin, and Portuguese."
"Voice Reader is a low cost ($1.99) app for iPad or iPhone that provides text-to-speech that reads PDF' files aloud-in 21 languages, with 32 available voices."
"A fellow ITS, Brad Cloud, was scheduled to conduct an iPad lesson with some recent immigrants at Nimitz Middle School. He mentioned he was looking for an app that would be useful for sentence building. I instantly thought of Read on Sight Free (formerly Word-Blocks) which was one of the apps that we had featured on our Hot Apps 4 Literacy show."