Learn Persian - Free WordPower app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 3040 ratings )

Travel Education
Developer: Innovative Language Learning USA LLC

Free

Current version: 5.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 Feb 2009
App size: 114.46 Mb

Are you interested in learning Persian, but just dont have the time?

Lets face it, not everyone can commit full-time to learning a language. We know there are many things going on in your life: school, work, the kids, that special someone. Thats why we developed WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary Free for the ultra-busy, 21st century lifestyle. Theres absolutely no reason to miss out on all the benefits of learning Persian just because youre light on time. With WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary Free, youll start down the road to fluency and reap the rewards that go with it.

With WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary Free, youll master 100 of the most frequently used words and phrases in the Persian language right on your iOS device! The app doubles as a mini travel guide packed with cultural insights and practical Persian phrases. Learn Persian with audio recordings of a native Persian speaker and a voice recorder so you can master perfect pronunciation anywhere, anytime. This list of the 100 most frequently used Persian words is compact enough to fit a little review into you busy schedule. Study at your convenience at times and places that work for you! WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary Free also comes with an addictive Word of the Day alert!

What makes WordPower so effective? Its Fun, Fast and Easy to Use!

WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary Free FEATURES:
- Completely redesigned UI. The user interface has been redesigned from the ground up to be much cleaner, beautiful, and more user friendly
- New! Level 1 Basic Word List (approximately 200 words): Now you get more than just 1 word a day
- Support for iOS 6 and 4" Retina displays such as the iPhone 5 and 5th gen iPod Touch
- Persian Top 100 Words: A special list of words specific to daily life in Iran or other Persian speaking countries. You’ll learn handy cultural insights with every entry transforming Word Power into a mini travel and cultural handbook (3G or WiFi required to access Wikipedia links within the app)
- Essential Persian vocabulary all in one place showing you the spelling, translation, pronunciation, image, class, romanization and arabic script
- Sample Sentences: See and hear practical sample sentences with every word entry
- Updated Basic Resources: Want to explore the Persian language even more? Learn everything you need to know with this comprehensive source of Persian learning tips, information and material
- Easy to Use Design: Intuitive iOS swipe navigation allows visual learners to browse vocabulary images quickly. Find everything you need without excessive swiping and tapping
- Custom Flashcard Settings: Youre in control of your study sessions. Mix up question types (recognition, production, audio and visual) for a full understanding of each word
- Listening Practice: Hear each words proper pronunciation by a native speaker
- Perfect your Pronunciation: Compare your pronunciation to the native speakers with the Voice Recorder, easily accessible throughout the app
- Personalized Word Bank: Save difficult or useful words, with their audio files, to review at any time
- Advanced Search Function: Search entire database in English or Persian
- Progress Bar: Keep track of how many words you have really mastered
- Word View Options: Romanization can be turned on and off

100 words not enough?
Upgrade to WordPower Learn Persian Vocabulary full edition to get 2000 more words and phrases!

Pros and cons of Learn Persian - Free WordPower app for iPhone and iPad

Learn Persian - Free WordPower app good for

One word every day. A good way to improve your vocabulary step by step.

When you are a farsi/english native, many Translation mistakes (such as translating "awefull" on farsi to "awesome" on english). But a very good phonetic writing from farsi in latin letters what makes it handy for learning how to write and Read farsi. My fav app for preparing my First Trip to Iran!

Very profesional, helpfull and lovely made programm. With good audio exercises and helpfull explainations. Great App.

Its a fun and useful app for anyone who is trying to learn Farsi :-)

Very good tool for learning! Really encourages you to check daily cause if you dont, you dont get to keep that days new word in you flashcard stack. Good push to check and keep learning. Also excellent pronunciation+ phonetic English spelling, and translation. The readout voice doesnt always read the whole text phrase though :/ thats an error +can cause u to learn wrong. Have Farsi, Spanish and Arabic wordoftheday as well, and though all are GREAT to have (better than nothing FOR SURE), Spanish choice of words has been best so far. I just hate the ads in all :P wish theyd be less intrusive.

Definitely for beginners. It only does a little but does it well.

Some bad moments

Native farsi speaker has corrected many of the translations already. Also, I got a spoken word that didnt match the written word...not very reliable, which makes it not very helpful.

They teach you words that will never be used. It could be good, if they had a better choice of words.

It is nothing but an app to get you to upgrade. Can only bank words as they become available.

The free program is a waste of time. It comes installed with one word (wow). The program automatically downloads one word a day. After one year, I would have a whopping vocabulary of 365 words. Not very impressive.

The idea and the interface is great, but this should be used as a vocabulary-building tool for intermediate- and higher-level students rather than a teaching tool for beginners. One word a day is much too slow, and most of the words are useless: this week Ive gotten "to be discharged (from a hospital)", "shipment", "commute", and... "seven". Also, the same wordlist (which I strongly suspect was made for Japanese, the original language offered by Innovative) is used for all the languages, which means that some of the entries make sense for Japanese but not for other languages (for example, having "to recieve, to pick up (a telephone)" as a single entry even though they are two unrelated words in Persian). Unfortunately, the translator seems to have stuck to the wordlist given to him a bit too faithfully, resulting sometimes in long or awkward translations, unlike in some of the other WordPower languages where the list was adjusted as necessary to suit each language better. Finally, I sometimes get words that havent been translated yet. This week one of the words was "language", but where the translation shoul have been it just said "new". Other times theres a translation but no recording. I wonder why they bother to put these unfinished entries in there at all. Again, the app is a great idea and obviously made by a language learner, but the implementation thus far has been so sloppy and unprofessional that the idea of upgrading to the paid version is laughable.

It says theres not enough storage? It needs 409 MB but yet I have 518 MB available?!! :( HELP

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