StudyChat Japanese app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 2912 ratings )

Travel Education
Developer: Guiix Pty Ltd

Free

Current version: 4.3.0, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 16 Aug 2012
App size: 226.23 Mb

=[ FEATURES ]=
- Learn socialising phrases, to help you meet others.
- Practice listening skills for the Asia traveller
- Familiarise yourself with common everyday situations, so youre aware of useful phrases
- JLPT 4 + JLPT 3 intermediate word level, for those who want more practice tools
- Your progress for each phrase is tracked in the background, so you dont repeat phrases too frequently.
- Phrases are randomised in semi-artificial conversations, so there is some "variety" to keep your mind awake.
- Focus on listening, and translation recall. The two most important skills for everyday socialising.
- Practice Japanese with anime conversations.

=[ HOW IT WORKS ]=
- Listen to a conversation: a list of phrases.
- After each repeat, any phrase has been seen enough will be replaced by a new phrase to learn.
- Best used as an intermediate practice tool.
- Combine with SCRIBE ORIGINS series to learn basic vocab and kanji.

StudyChat Japanese is designed for you as the intermediate-level traveller who wants to become familiar with phrases from different situations. If you already know the basics of the language and you want another tool to practice with, then this is for you.

StudyChat Japanese has been intentionally designed as a fun supplementation to existing study methods. There are many excellent resources for learning grammar and vocabulary. But there are few tools, aside from watching TV with subtitles, that simulate conversations for practicing what you have already learnt.

StudyChat Japanese also includes a bucketload of background and character styles, to keep your mind as interested as "study" possibly can be.

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Pros and cons of StudyChat Japanese app for iPhone and iPad

StudyChat Japanese app good for

What a fun way to learn Japanese! The app is great for beginners -- like me! =)

My Japanese is pretty weak, but this provides a quick way to learn new phrases to be used right away. I learned tenses to start, which was something I could use right away. Each "Chapter" is organized into a theme, like "At a Cafe", "Phone Conversation", or "At Home" with each chapter consisting of over 50 useful phrases to use. The good thing is that they provide example phrases to use, but are like a skeleton so once youve mastered more vocabulary, you can use that same sentence with new words. Overall, a great and an effective app to learn Japanese. Good for beginners, but for intermediate/advanced learners, it may be too simple.

This app is one of the finest around. The graphics make it enjoyable to play. And the learning style - generating random conversations, is so much more interesting to practice listening with.

Ive been practicing with this for a while now. I admit that without knowing some Japanese first, Im not sure I would have benefited much. Its more aimed at lower intermediate to practice listening skills, something I havent found anywhere else.

Ive got my iphone loaded with study apps. Everything from Anki to StickyStudy. This app is absolutely essential in my opinion. Theres no other way Ive found to practice listening AND have study progress for each phrase remembered. Including some lessons would help however. But aside from that, Ive been more than happy with StudyChat.

This app is pretty much like flashcards, repeating conversations as needed. The app does better in that it tries to make "fluid" conversations from the flashcards. Overall I find it more interesting than straight flashcards for practicing my Japanese, so it gets my thumbs up.

Some bad moments

After half an hour of using this app, all I learned was really pointless pick up phrases that would not even be legit. Ie. you are cute, I like cute girls. See you later. It is too bad, they have a great setup with the characters in the background promoting the learning environment but he content was poor.

App response is painfully slow. Recorded voice sounds like taped on a cheap microphone. App humor will make you feel like pulling out your own teeth. Menu navigation fail.

For a start, the romaji is all wrong. Secondly, what is with that stupid American accent? Its so annoying. The graphics are hideously poor as well. Dont download this app, its utterly useless.

This app is well designed, easy to use, and one that really deserves some recognition. This is great for beginner and intermediate Japanese language students. This can be used wonderfully to pick up Japanese that is spoken in normal conversation, to learn words & characters, and sentence structure. This is a great and intuitive app that I highly recommend. I also recommend to get the free version first to see what its like before buying the other conversations individually or in one package.

This latest update is just what this app needed to make it one of the best Japanese study apps. A lot more animations and help screens, additional beginner levels for basic adjectives and tense grammar. Everything Ive been waiting for. The improvements to the learning algorithm are welcome too, as I much prefer to spend more time repeating a phrase until it is learnt. I really cant say enough good things about it. Invaluable for beginners and advanced students alike.

At last some beginning lessons! The app kind of jumped in at the lower-intermediate level otherwise, and assumed wed perused a basic Japanese textbook at least once before embarking on using this app. Very happy with the new graphics as well. I wouldnt run this on less than an iPhone 4, unless you turn off the background graphics, as they do take a fair bit of processing power with all the retina detail and all. This app is a must for all Japanese language learners and all those planning to actually go to Japan and make friends. I really recommend this in anyones arsenal of Japanese study tools.

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