This app gives me the practice I need to learn the various aspects of Koine Greek. Sell whatever you have to, to get this app.

I have just moved on to chapter 4 of Beginning Greek by Merkle and Plummer, which means I am using vocab from chapter’s 1-3. The problem is that when I select chapter three to review these verbs, this app is expecting me to know all of the V, M, and T plus all the conjugations of the verbs. The only verb conjugated at chapter 4 is the present tense of ειμι. I just don’t know what value the app brings to me until I fully learn all the verb variables because of this. Also, when declining 1st declination alpha nouns, when the same ending (-ας) is used for Gen/Singlular and Acc/Plural nouns, for some of them I get a “1 of 2” and “2 of 2” indicator in the upper left corner of the screen, which allows me to do do one of these first then follow-up with the other; but for most of them I don’t get anything. Then when I select either the genitive or the accusative options, I don’t know until I get to the results screen if I selected the pairing the app was expecting me to select. As a suggestion, it would be nice to also have a feature that is just straight flash cards to help learn the vocabulary without also having to decline or conjugate the terms. Yes I bought the flashcards that go with the text, but it is not always convenient to use physical cards and it would be nice to use this app for this purpose.

This app came highly recommended by my Greek professor and I can see why. It’s very helpful. I love the customization feature that lets you customize what will be on your quiz. My only issue is that it can’t be customized further. For instance, I used this to study as a progressed through my textbook and assumed that only material from my textbook would be included. This was not the case however. While most of my vocabulary was included. It was not limited it forms, tenses, mood and voice according to my chapter progressions which meant I would be quizzed on things I did not know because I never read them in the first place. I’ve had a great time using the app. It’s very user friendly and fun to use.

I was so happy to find an app with so much flexibility and to be able to chose the curriculum as well as chapter selection. But, the app crashes constantly both on my phone and iPad and then you have to start all over. There is a lot of mundane repetition at times and not a lot of variety in parsing. When the app crashes, then you end up starting all over. Pretty annoying. And, if you want the full app, do not buy through the lite version, come back to the App Store and purchase the full app. The idea behind the app is excellent, it just has some issues that I hope are resolved not only in the full version but also in lite version since that is where my full price in app purchase, resides.