How to use foreign language learning software for iPhone and smartphone

Let’s talk about how to use such technical devices as iPhone and smartphone for language learning. We can use them at any moment of our free time – during a coffee break, at a restaurant, at a bank office, etc.  

Now we can use all this time for language learning. How? There is a lot of foreign language learning software for iPhones and smartphones which can help us to develop our language learning skills. Many of them can be downloaded in Internet – they are very useful.

1. Dictionaries. There are different dictionaries for phones, both large and small, some of them have more than 20 languages. In any case you can find many of different dictionaries in Internet and download them. Such foreign language learning software can help you during your travel abroad, as well as can give you the possibility to learn new words when you have nothing to do anymore, for example at an airport or at a plane during a flight.

2. World news. It is very comfortable to read news while going to somewhere at a bus or taxi. Do you learn French? There is French language news at your disposal. Some news applications are offered in light versions for those who are just beginners in language learning (for example, in BBC). So, you get to know up-to-date world news and develop your language learning skills at the same time.  

3. Radio. Your phone like your PC is a portal to the world. There is a great deal of different radio stations in numerous languages and genres – you can find many ones which are especially interesting to you and listen to them for use and pleasure. Special language learning software can help you to enjoy favorite radio info.   

4. Video. You can download movies to your iPhones, as well as find interesting videos in YouTube – this is a huge collection of videos in any languages and topics.

5. Music/audiobooks/podcasts. You can choose for listening anything you wish: romantic detective stories in French, scientific podcasts in German, Spanish rap music, etc.

6. Sms-messages. Do you have foreign friends? Your phone is the best instrument for talking to them then. Foreign language sms-message – without grammar schemes and tables, using the least amount of words – is an excellent exercise for vocabulary usage. You can develop your writing speech very effectively.