Portuguese Class app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
3264 ratings )
Travel
Education
Developer:
Cognitecco BVBA
4.99 USD
Current version:
7.59, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 07 Mar 2011
App size: 45.05 Mb
Gain a mastery of Portuguese!
Portuguese Class offers a complete offline Portuguese course, together with interactive verb, vocabulary, grammar and listening exercises. All words and phrases are available to listen to as well.
Great support when you learn Portuguese. Easy to practice your verb conjugations, vocabulary, grammar and phrases with.
This full course contains 10 Portuguese language lessons covering the following content:
* All verb tenses, with conjugations of more than 100 verbs, and irregular forms indicated
* An extended vocabulary with 4000+ words, sorted into categories such as business, transport and vacation
* 40 grammar topics, covering all Portuguese grammar
* 200 useful phrases
And the following features:
* Highly customizable exercises on all of the above, with a fun awards system that is integrated with Game Center which makes practicing fun, with separate awards for the vocab, verbs, grammar and listening exercises.
* Keeping track of your progress by saving statistics and summaries of all completed exercises, while keeping track of errors made.
The first strength of this app is the extended content. No other Portuguese app offers this much for the same price. The other strength lies in its fun, addictive and useful exercises.
If you are serious about learning Portuguese, this app is for you.
Pros and cons of Portuguese Class app for iPhone and iPad
Portuguese Class app good for
Best app Ive found yet to help refresh my Portuguese. Uses various methods including vocabulary, grammar, listening and fill in blank and quizzes. This is all with free version, worth paying for pro version.
Well done! I also have the Italian one. They are both very fun to do.
Good to practice and memorize the vocabulary, verbs, grammar and pronunciation.
Some bad moments
I have a lot of Portuguese app and this app is great for looking up references. Its easy to use and has a nice easy layout. This is a must get if your learn Portuguese as a 2nd language or 3rd or 4th or 5th or so on lol.
On the plus side I like the design and it covers a great deal of material.
There are three structural problems:
1) A ton of typos relating to missing or wrong accents, for example "Está casa está suja". The intended meaning is "this house is dirty" however "está" is a verb form of "estar" and "esta" means "this". This is basic copy editing. Also the word "nõ" pops up from time to time. I think they mean "não".
2) The flashcards are weak. When I have played with the vocabulary it is a generic list, no ability to add words or edit.
3) When I have played with verb tense you are memorizing a list, there is no application component. There is a ton of cards related to "ser" vs. "estar". Hint if it can change in five minutes use estar. Other grammar points (like prepositions) are over looked completely in the grammar section.
They say they have good quality audio but this is an additional purchase. I think overall this is a very limited app. Time would be better spent buying a flashcard program and creating lists yourself based on your needs. As far as audio there is a news and culture podcast put out by the SBS in Portuguese and a ton of free podcasts for Brazilian Portuguese. You can also try a free account at livemocha or rhinospike to connect with native speakers.
It is a good app for learn and expanding. Your vocabulary but you can no use it as your main Studing tool because some of the answers are wrong
As it stands the best thing about it is the quick and easy reference to some of the main Portuguese grammar rules. Its a shame because this app could be so much better.
They have some good exercises that I have seen in any other Portuguese app (and I have a lot of them). For instance: they have a really good audio quiz where you listen to a sentence and then you have to answer which word(s) youve heard within the sentence. Whats upsetting about this feature is that they couldnt even take the time to record the audio for the sentences with a real voice-over artist. Instead what they did was extract the audio recording from the audio feature from Google Translate. On top of that they mustve compressed the audio files that they captured even more thus rendering the already heard to understand robotic audio vo nearly unintelligible. Pathetic.
I cant even remember what I paid for this but if its anything above $0.99 its too much.
Im actually Im not sure why there are no reviews for this app. Maybe some who are trying to learn Portuguese just dont know about. But its well created and very informational. It allows you to test your knowledge and apply what you learn. It can be such a useful aide in your quest for fluency. Perfect Portuguese is not necessary. I believe a lot of language learning should be done as if you were a child. But children, as they grow need to learn the technicality of the language. So this is the technical side of it all. Im very impressed and the course itself is not very expensive. Its well worth it. Well done folks!
