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WP7 App Review: Human Japanese

Sebastian SchützeSebastian Schütze

In the next weeks I wanna do some reviews for some apps of the Windows Phone 7. I choosed apps which I like and I think that could be for interesting for other users too. So lets just get right into it.

App Name
Human Japanese

Cost
9.99$ (8.99€) / trial version

Overall rating
4/5

Overview

Since I got a kind of addiction to the Japanese language, I started to study it some month ago. The first thing in my mind was: “How could I learn that language in my speed with my busy time schedule I have?”. So I decided to have a look in the Markeplace. What you can find is a bunch of Japanese learning software. The good thing about the Windows Phone is, that you can learn in the train or in situations where you usually stare at the wall bored and wait for the thing to come. Most of them cost around 0.99$ to 1.99$. That price is ok, but they lack of implementation a lot. And either the design is horrible or the content is pretty sparse.

The positive sites

Human Japanese instead has both of it. A good design and the functionality is the 500 pages of content which not only teach you some words like “ありがとう”(arigatou = thank you) but the app brings the student also closer to geographical, historical and cultural facets of Japan and its language. Furthermore it teaches you Hiragana and Katakana (two of the three used alphabets) and also the stroke order with animations how to write them properly. For people who have problems to pronounce the given vocabulary, the can listen to over 1800 recordings. I found everything of that pretty helpful for studying in the train.

The negative sites

Anyway, there are still some drawbacks and limitations. The biggest one is the huge price compared to other apps (it’s 9.99$). But for that I have to say that you can download the trial version which gives you around 20% of the content for free. So you have plenty of content to study which includes the full Hiragana alphabet! The other somewhat bigger drawback is the responsiveness. Sometimes the app didn’t react when I touched buttons on the touchscreen for some seconds. This is not very often but it is still sometimes anoying

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Sebastian is an Azure Nerd with focus on DevOps and Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) that converted from the big world of SharePoint and O365. He was working with O365 since 2013 and loved it ever since. As his focus shifted in 2017 to more DevOps related topics in the Microsoft Stack. He learned to love the possibilities of automation. Besides writing articles in his blog and German magazines, he is still contributing to the SharePoint Developer Community (and PnP SharePoint) to help to make the ALM part a smoother place to live in.

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