Hebrew by Nemo 4+

I love to let it play and go for a run or do yard work vs having to read or actively interact with the app. Probably would be ideal with another learning resource for dedicated study sessions. Also love how it gradually mixed in new words and phrases while diminishing those it figures you’ve mastered — though you can select any you wish to bump back to frequent status.

Couple of quibbles. The session stops after about 5 minutes. You can just restart it but that’s a pain while running and I wish there was a setting to adjust the length of sessions. Also a lot of phrases don’t lend themselves to literal translation word for word and I wish I could see that — what each word in a phrase means on its own. It would be another way to better remember the phrase and accelerate vocabulary learning. Finally it seems to lack any grammar teaching.

But if you want an easy (and I free) way to lean Hebrew via audio, this app is it.

I am crazy about this app! It offers sooo many versatile options. It has been helping me so much with Hebrew. It is the very first, and the most important app I recommend to my friends learning a language.

The only thing that needs to be fixed, and I have seen some others comment on this as well, is the search option. When I go to search for a new word (especially in Hebrew Characters) it often will freeze. This is so scary because I have saved all of my information in the app, and it would take forever to save it again if I have to re-download it.

Other than that- 5 incredible stars for sure!!! (BUT PLEASE FIX THAT PROBLEM... pleeeeaaase.) :)

I absolutely love this app, and it has greatly improved my Hebrew. I find myself wasting less time on social media, and more time studying language.

That said, I have had problems with a recurring glitch, across two different versions of iOS. Sometimes, when imputing Hebrew characters into the search tool, the app will freeze and the screen will be stuck on the “Preparing…” message. Once this is done, the app completely loses responsiveness, and must be quit and reopened. However, even after reopening, the search feature remains frozen. The other areas of the app are accessible, but if you tap on the search feature, the “preparing” screen will again appear, and the original characters you entered will remain frozen in the search bar. It again loses responsiveness, and must again be quit and reopened.

Here’s the kiss of death: in order to fix the problem, you must completely uninstall and reinstall the app. Then, you must reinstall your premium package and re-download everything. All of your highly personalized user data is lost, and you must rebuild your progress in the app from square one. This is extremely inconvenient and time consuming, and has happened not one, not two, but three times!

Again, I love the app itself, but I can’t stand this bug! Without the bug, it would be a hands-down 5 stars, however, I must reluctantly reward it 3 stars until fixed.