A fascinating article on recent reappraisals of work of Benjamin Lee Whorf

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Keeping it short and sweet:  For those of you lucky enough to have an iPad… Here is the initial trache of Audio FlashCards Apps now for iPad!!

French Audio FlashCards for iPad
Spanish Audio FlashCards for iPad
German Audio FlashCards for iPad
Italian Audio FlashCards for iPad
Chinese Audio FlashCards for iPad
Chinese (Traditional) Audio FlashCards for iPad
Russian Audio FlashCards for iPad
Indonesian Audio FlashCards for iPad
Brazilian Audio FlashCards for iPad

Japanese, Korean and Arabic versions coming very soon.

Bahasa Indonesian is now available on AudioFlashCards Online – featuring over 4000 words.

http://audioflashcardsonline.com

Declan Software’s Online FlashCards service is now in beta.  If you are interested in taking it for a spin, then please step this way …

Google has just launched Extensions for its Chrome browser. These are small buttons on the browser toolbar that launch mini applications when clicked.

We now have Word of the Day Chrome extensions for all of our languages:  Brazilian,  Chinese,  German,  French,  Italian,  Spanish,  Korean,  Chinese,  Russian,  Japanese,  Indonesian,  Arabic.

Here is a rather nice, and we think balanced, review of our Spanish FlashCards software:

GiveMe A Review

To quote:

Declan Software’s innovative approach is backed up by research into what really works for a wide variety of learners. They found out that when it comes to learning – and learning that really sticks to your mind – the simple tool called flashcard, when innovated, is more than useful.

…soon.  And here is a little preview:

A common question we get about our iPhone apps is how to increase the volume of the audio pronunciations even when the volumes slider in the App itself is up to maximum.  As we all know, the iPhone has a volume button on its side.  If there is no audio playing the button only adjusts the ringer volume.  To use it to adjust the listening volume,  a sound must be playing. In the context of our Apps, that means that you need to press the volume buttons while the audio pronunciation is actually playing.

Another common issues is that having the mute switch ON (also on the side of the iPone) will so mute the sound from our Apps.

There are iTunes links to all our Apps here.