Often the desire to tighten English rests on the lack of time and effort to learn. You have to force yourself to read books, memorize the rules and each day something to repeat. If the result of all these actions is not happy, then maybe you just chose the wrong approach.
Pay attention to the new mobile applications that can make the process of learning interesting and really fun. Some of them will help in memorizing words and phrases, others will allow to overcome the most difficult rules, while others will change your attitude towards listening. The main thing - to choose for themselves the programs that are easiest and cause positive emotions.
1. Simpler
This application will help to spread the English language on the atoms and make it as easy to understand. Each lesson consists of three stages: memorizing words, they check for example short sentences and a fitness machine with a variety of tasks in the use of these words. Targets are both simple - with elemental arrangement of the sentence, and complicated, where do you need to write a sentence in English. All answers and announced the construction of storing.
Simpler also allows you to save and memorize difficult words, which will be supplemented by illustrations or text associations. The assistance provided and listening section, where you take the phrase at the hearing, and even respond to them.
All this is presented in a very straightforward manner with a friendly interface. I would like to praise this application for the promotion of users: those who will perform daily lessons during the month will receive the entire course for free.
Price: Free
2. Enguru: Spoken English App
In this application, the main emphasis is on spoken English, which will help you pass the interview in a foreign company or simply to conduct business correspondence with colleagues from abroad. But in fact, lessons subject goes far beyond the specifics of the work. Enguru raises issues of communication with friends, the travel, recreation and a variety of consumer topics. In each section, you are waiting for the words to memorize and useful examples of their use.
Enguru Unlike many analogues is playing knowledge test mode and in a large number of job types, which are selected specially for you and your knowledge. The training is carried out statistics showing your strengths and weaknesses. The app works fully offline and does not require a network connection.
Price: Free
3. Drops
The main purpose of this app - you are interested in learning the language. All words and phrases are in it with thumbnail images, to which you must combine their values. This is done by simply tapping and swipe. In some cases it is necessary to build a clear sequence, in others - to restore order in a set of words, lines connecting them in meaning. Such a simple game elements are combined with original illustrations transform the learning process in the decision of unpretentious puzzles.
An interesting feature of Drops - a five-minute access to the study of words every day. Such a restriction can be removed by purchasing the full version, but in fact it was broken when studying for short periods of time the whole process becomes tedious and stressful. In this mode you will always remember that only need five minutes from you today, tomorrow, five minutes and five minutes on any other day.
Price: Free
4. Visual Vocabulary
The authors of this service did focus on the method of visual memory, in which every word to remember is complemented by high-quality image. All in the arsenal of the program more than 3000 words, which are divided into dozens of categories and subcategories. For convenience, there are special flash cards and listening.
The application works without access to the Internet - to memorize words can be in any place and at any time. Grammar and any rules here practically given that for many will be even plus. Visual Vocabulary is perfect for those who need only vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation.
Price: Free
5. EWA
English Words Ambassador offers to combine learning English with entertainment, namely, watching your favorite movies and TV shows. It made the most of it simply and conveniently. You only need to select the desired movie or series in the series list, and the words of the original audio track will be added to the list for consideration. Similarly, books that can be read in the original right in the app.
Themselves as movies and TV shows in the EWA, of course, available. Searches the web have their own. Yet English Words Ambassador - unique in its kind app. The developers are trying to constantly expand its database fresh dictionaries of new films and keep the interest of users.
Price: Free
6. Aword
This is another assistant in the study of words. Dictionary lexicon in it offers dozens of thematic lists, each containing hundreds of words to memorize. In addition to standard topics, such as "Work", "Education", "Relationships" and others, there are subsections with the words occurring in the latest films. For example, it was recently added over 80 words of "Past Jedi" and about one hundred of "Very strange cases».
The app is suitable for both adults and children. For the little ones a special section with the basics: animals, numbers, family and so on. All words and phrasal verbs, and here, too, a lot of them, supplemented by visual images. Aword works without a network connection.
Price: Free
7. Lingvist
The basis of this application is a mathematical approach that allows the user to adjust to the available knowledge. Lingvist on your answers to the job itself defines what and in what order you need to study. This applies to both simple words and grammar. The application offers a wide variety of tasks - from writing sentences to insert within the meaning of the words in the prepared text.
In Lingvist has a useful section with listening and questions after listening to a separate section of the dialogue, which must be spoken on-screen phrases. All jobs can be found only a statistically significant words used in everyday speech or business environment. In the process of learning is carried out statistics showing how many words you already know.
Price: Free
8. Emister
All the lessons in this unusual application submitted in the form of layers on various maps. Basic course available free of charge, offers 128 lessons and over 700 words to learn. Test your knowledge held in the form of listening, and through the selection of the correct answers. On registration of the application it is more like a mobile game, which is about to receive some sort of boss.
In addition to the original interface, Emister different from other applications online tournaments with other players. In competitive mode, you and three more users need to quickly answer questions, indicating the correct meaning of the words and forming sentences. The quickest and most precise player will move up the global league table of all users of the application. Often it is a competitive learning method brings much more benefit than ordinary memorization and check cards.
Price: Free
All of these applications are targeted at people with different amount of knowledge. Some programs can be described as very similar to each other, but often the same things they are presented in different ways. Someone will approach training with the use of visual memory, for others, the key will be listening. Whatever it was, to find a suitable service for himself, with whom the English language will not seem complicated, it is quite possible.
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