iDoms Vocab

Name: iDoms Vocab
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)
Author: Irish Dominicans

Education

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

3 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Irish Dominicans
Language

EN
English
Size

42.1
MB

Vocabulary Training tool with automatic repetition function and the possibility to create your own lists. Included list for Greek, Hebrew and Latin. I wrote this program because of my own need to train my vocabulary. What I find most important is a combination of repetition and automatic progress. This App tries to achieve that. With the use of a point system. The App registers how well you know a word. If you know a word good enough, it will only ask it once in a while for the sake of repetition. When a word is classified as known, a new word is added to the next exercise. Vocabulary/Flashcard training tool for: - Greek (first 300 words with audio) - Biblical Hebrew (first 300 words with audio) - Latin (extracted from the Summa Theologiae) - Create your own lists through the website http://vocab.idoms.org/ - Many parameters are adjustable - A brief summary after each exercise - You can create your own custom lists from the words in the App - Optionally practice both ways A lot of the parameters of the App are adjustable, and this makes it a very flexible flashcard application. The first 50 words are for free to test the App, after that vocabulary sets can be purchased using In-App purchases. The revenue I use to pay towards my development cost such as Developer License etc. Please be aware that you need to use the restore purchase function if you want to use the App on multiple devices. This is for free (you will never be charged twice for the same list) and the button can be found at the bottom of the list with vocabulary sets. It is now possible to create your own vocabulary lists though an In-App upgrade!

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

3 Ratings

Great app
08/08/2013

Steve94070
I am learning Ancient Greek as an occasional hobbyist, and I have found this to be a terrific application. Very helpful to have the audio files for pronunciation (for the first several hundred words). I like that it will occasionally bring back words that were already learned, as a refresher. There's a little funkiness going on with the iCloud connection, which in theory should let me keep apace when using either my iPad or iPhone -- sometimes it seems to work but other times not. Overall this is great. I would like a similar app for homeric greek -- maybe it is in the works????
Great app
08/08/2013

Steve94070

I am learning Ancient Greek as an occasional hobbyist, and I have found this to be a terrific application. Very helpful to have the audio files for pronunciation (for the first several hundred words). I like that it will occasionally bring back words that were already learned, as a refresher. There's a little funkiness going on with the iCloud connection, which in theory should let me keep apace when using either my iPad or iPhone -- sometimes it seems to work but other times not. Overall this is great. I would like a similar app for homeric greek -- maybe it is in the works????
Great job
07/24/2020

Shadron Calisti
This app has great audio. It also implements an approach to learning that is effective.
Great job
07/24/2020

Shadron Calisti

This app has great audio. It also implements an approach to learning that is effective.
Limited but has potential in future updates
01/25/2012

Call me Gideon
The app is ok, nothing fantastic but also not horrible. I bought the app for my iPad initially with the Greek New Testament and Hebrew flashcards but the app is going to make me buy them again to get them on my iPhone which I think is ridiculous so heads up all you people who use multiple platforms and make sure you figure out which one you really want. As far as the actual testing goes there is only the flashcard manner of learning. There isn't a multiple choice, reverse multiple choice, quiz, auto shuffle feature, or some of the other niceties that flashcards apps like gFlash offers. Also there isn't any way to add and/or modify cards. Some of the cards are either incorrect or just weird, for instance the Hebrew card yom (יום) has a mystery segol vowel preceding the word, מלך has a ה following it with a sheva under it and an "n" with the spanish looking circumflex accent above it. Also, I should note that there isn't any indication of gender with the Hebrew flashcards. One nice thing though is that the Hebrew verbs do include the qal, niphal, hiphil, and other binyanim verb forms where applicable.
Limited but has potential in future updates
01/25/2012

Call me Gideon

The app is ok, nothing fantastic but also not horrible. I bought the app for my iPad initially with the Greek New Testament and Hebrew flashcards but the app is going to make me buy them again to get them on my iPhone which I think is ridiculous so heads up all you people who use multiple platforms and make sure you figure out which one you really want. As far as the actual testing goes there is only the flashcard manner of learning. There isn't a multiple choice, reverse multiple choice, quiz, auto shuffle feature, or some of the other niceties that flashcards apps like gFlash offers. Also there isn't any way to add and/or modify cards. Some of the cards are either incorrect or just weird, for instance the Hebrew card yom (יום) has a mystery segol vowel preceding the word, מלך has a ה following it with a sheva under it and an "n" with the spanish looking circumflex accent above it. Also, I should note that there isn't any indication of gender with the Hebrew flashcards. One nice thing though is that the Hebrew verbs do include the qal, niphal, hiphil, and other binyanim verb forms where applicable.
Great for Language Cross Training.
02/18/2013

bakervillia
This isn't the prettiest looking app, but it's extremely effective at its intended purpose, which is to learn Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It is a fantastic resource for any biblical student interested in beginning to explore the languages of the original texts. It uses proven methods of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to teach vocabulary, which are very effective. Just in two days of use, I've doubled my vocabulary of all 3 languages! Thank you so much for this wonderful app!
Great for Language Cross Training.
02/18/2013

bakervillia

This isn't the prettiest looking app, but it's extremely effective at its intended purpose, which is to learn Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It is a fantastic resource for any biblical student interested in beginning to explore the languages of the original texts. It uses proven methods of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to teach vocabulary, which are very effective. Just in two days of use, I've doubled my vocabulary of all 3 languages! Thank you so much for this wonderful app!