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Audio FlashCards for iPad

Petar — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:22:11 +0000

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 on Audio FlashCards Online

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:03:11 +0000

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

http://audioflashcardsonline.com

Online FlashCards: Now in BETA

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:49:00 +0000

Online FlashCards BETA

Our Online FlashCards service is now in beta.

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 …

Chrome Extensions – Word of the Day

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:08:31 +0000

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.

An Online Version of FlashCards coming….

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:48:09 +0000

…soon. And here is a little preview:

Declan Software Newsletter – Summer 2009

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:08:38 +0000

Greetings from Declan Software!

We’ve got some exciting news at Declan Software that we wanted to tell you about:

FREE iPhone Version of Audio FlashCards and Version 1.6 Update
FREE Audio Word of the Day Widgets
Updated version of ReadWrite Korean with improved audio
30-day money back guarantee

– FREE FLASHCARDS for iPhone and iTouch –

We now offer a FREE trail version of our iPhone FlashCards software – available on iTunes. These versions include the first six wordfiles for free so you can try out the software before deciding to purchase the full version.

Here are the direct links to the iTunes page for each (FREE) version of FlashCards for iPhone:

Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese
Chinese (Traditional)
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish

Also we have just released version 1.6 of our ** FlashCards for iPhone ** software. This version includes better quality audio. Here are the direct links to the iTunes page for each (full) version of FlashCards for iPhone:

Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese
Chinese (Traditional)
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish

– FREE Audio Word of the Day Widgets –

Also don’t forget our free Word of the Day widgets – now just one line of code to cut and paste into their website code and get a free Word of the Day with audio every day of the year. This is a great way to have visitors return to your website again and again. The code for widgets can found here (just click the “Get this Widget” button):

http://www.declan-software.com/wordoftheday.htm

– READWRITE KOREAN Version 2.3 –

An updated version of ReadWrite Korean is now available with improved audio. Download the latest update from here:

http://www.declan-software.com/korean/download_korean_readwrite.htm

– 30-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE –

For those who missed it previously we have now introduced an Unconditional 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. So in addition to free downloadable trials for all of our software that let you see if our range of software is exactly right for you, we now offer a money-back guarantee. If you purchase the software and you’re not absolutely thrilled with it, we don’t deserve your money. Contact us and we’ll process your refund as soon as reasonably possible, generally within one business day.

Enjoy your summer and happy language learning.

–
Petar Vujanovic
CEO
Declan Software

Declan Software on Twitter

Petar — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:54:08 +0000

Declan Software news and (micro) updates are available on Twitter here:

http://twitter.com/declan_software

Brazilian Portuguese Word of the Day for iPhone

Petar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:35:47 +0000

Brazilian Portuguese Word of the Day for iPhone application is now available on iTunes.

Here is the direct iTunes link

A new Brazilian Portuguese word every single day. With pronunciation, meaning and… Native speaker AUDIO for each word. No expiry and no subscription – a new Brazilian Portuguese word for each day to eternity!

Features:

Brazilian Portuguese Word of the Day
Native speaker audio;
Word of the Day meaning in English.

FlashCards for iPhone Released

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:17:34 +0000

Declan Software’s Audio FlashCards for iPhone was released for sale on Itunes today. Here are the direct links for each available language version’s iTunes page:

		Chinese				Japanese
		French				Korean
		German				Russian
		Italian				Spanish

Audio FlashCards for iPhone and iTouch is a foreign language vocabulary learning tool by Declan Software available for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Each version includes atleast 3000 words and phrases each with a native speaker audio recording. Words are organized into approximately 100 WordFiles with each WordFile containing up to 100 words.

The Learning List: The words are learned based on a Learning List. The Learning List contains a subset of all the words in the WordFile – 10 words by default (although this can be changed by users). The Learning List allows users to concentrate learning a small group of words at any one time. Once a word is learned (by reviewing the Learning List and completing the Exercises) it is removed from the Learning List and is replaced by another, as yet unlearned word from the WordFile. This continues until the whole WordFile is learned.

Exercises: Words in the learning list should first be Reviewed using the “Review Learning List” option. Then users can move to the Exercises which include the Meaning Exercise, the Word Exercise, the Spelling Exercise and the Listening Exercise. Once all the exercises have been correctly completed, the word is marked as complete, removed from the Learning List and replaced by a new word. However, if the user gets one answer wrong in any of the exercises, then all the exercises must be completed again for that one word. This ensures comprehensive learning and retention.

Managing the Learning List: After a new WordFile is loaded the Learning List size is automatically set to 10. The number of words in the Learning List can be set by adding or removing words to the Learning List in the “Review Words” feature. In the “Task” menu select “All Words in WordFile” and then return to the main page. The select “Review All WordFile Words”. As you progress through the words in the WordFile words can be added to and dropped from the Learning List using the “Add to Learning List” / “Drop from Learning List” button. If you end up changing the number of words in the Learning List, that number will be maintained as words are learning and dropped from the Learning List, and new words are automatically added the Learning List to replace learned words.

Loading new WordFiles: To switch to another wordfile simply press the “Load Another WordFile” button and then select the WordFile you desire from the “Load WordFile” table. The Audio FlashCards comes preloaded with 3 WordFiles – all other WordFiles are downloaded by the application as required using an (WiFi or 3G) internet connection. If a WordFile needs to be downloaded before it can be used it will have a grey icon next to it in the “Load WordFile” table. To start downloading the WordFile simply select that WordFile and then press the “Start Download” button.

Arabic, Greek, Portuguese and Chinese (Traditional) versions coming soon.

Word of the Day WordPress Widget Plugin

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:48:57 +0000

Declan’s Word of the Day Widgets are now available as a WordPress plugin. Languages available include Japanese, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Korean, Russian, French, Arabic, German, Spanish, Italian and Indonesian.

Installation Instructions (for version 2.7 of WordPress)

(i.) Download the plugin you would like from the WP Plugin repository. Here are the links to the download pages:

(ii.) Unzip the downloaded file and copy the PHP file (french-word-of-the-day.php for example) into you server’s /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Or you can use Wordpress’s built-in plugin install feature.

(iii.) Then in your blogs administration pages go to the “Plugins” menu (as illustrated below)

and choose the “Installed” menu item (as illustrated below).

There you should see the Word of the Day plugin listed. Click the “Activate” link (as illustrated below) to activate the widget.

(iv.) Now you need to configure the widget so that it shows up in the Sidebar. To do that go to the “Appearance” menu (as illustrated below)

and select the “Widgets” item (as illustrated below)

You will then see that the “Word of the Day” widget then appears in the “Available Widgets” list. Click the “Add” link (as illustrated below) to add the widget to the sidebar.

And don’t forget to click the “Save Changes” button (as illustrated below) to finish the installation and configuration process.

You should then see a Word of the Day widget in your sidebar that looks something like the French example illustrated below.