Phrasebook app review: learn to speak a number of languages

Phrasebook by Bravolol Limited will help you master another language right from your iOS device.

Introduction

Phrasebook by Bravolol Limited will help you master another language right from your iOS device. There is no need to join an expensive language class or purchase costly books if your goal is to learn the basics of a new language. This app was released on June 12, 2013 and is available in English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.

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User Experience

The app offers a number of features and functions which make it easy to use and therefore easy to learn. One of the key features is the fact that you don't need an Internet connection for this one to work. This makes it ideal for when you're traveling internationally and don't want to pay for expensive roaming costs. The menu is laid out with fun graphical icons and all the phrases and words have been divided into categories for ease of use.

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Features

With this app you'll have access to more than 300 commonly-used vocabularies and phrases in a number of languages. It's great to travel with or just to speak to friends and contacts that use another language. The app uses a bright and colorful parrot as your guide through the languages and you'll be practicing listening and speaking skills with the parrot. If you like the parrot can even speak in another language for you and it uses the proper pronunciation at all times.

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Additional features include being able to record and then listen to your pronunciation versus the proper one from the parrot, a search function so you can look for vocabulary and phrases, and the ability to store and then manage all your favorite phrases. The categories of phrases and vocabularies are greetings, essentials, shopping, numbers, dating, date and time, and emergency.

In-App Purchases

There are no-in app purchases at this time.

Update Info

There are no updates at this time; however, the developer does have plans to add more scenarios in upcoming updates.

Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments

The app currently has five customer ratings with an average rating of five out of five stars.  Users are pleased with the app and how smoothly it operates.

Personal Comments by Reviewer

I liked that this translation app took a fun approach to learning a new language. The parrot as your guide is unexpected but cute. Its pronunciation of the words was really quite incredible and you could easily carry on a simple conversation in another language by speaking through the parrot. I also appreciated that the library of vocabularies and phrases was divided into categories. If that wasn’t enough then you could also use the search tool to find an exact phrase.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Offers more than 300 commonly used phrases and vocabularies in a variety of languages
• Features properly pronounced voice translation of those words
• Phrases and vocabularies are divided into common categories
• There is a search function
• There is the ability to save your favorites

Cons

• The selection of languages supported isn’t huge
• It covers just the basic phrases and languages
   

For: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. Phrasebook is optimized for iPhone 5.