JACT Vocab ٤+

Just taking a break here from Greek to express my heartfelt thanks for this very useful app. The best part is being able to use a curated dictionary that only has the words available in JACT Greek. Very helpful when reading through the text and forgetting a word. You don't have to track it down but just enter it in the app.

Excellent way to learn and drill ancient Greek vocab. You don't have to buy the books to learn from this, but I do recommend the books also.

You can't learn a language without learning vocabulary and that requires either wearing out the pages of a dictionary or memorization. And memorization requires drilling oneself on words. This app is perfect for that. The fact that it is keyed to the different sections and lessons is a bonus. And it's clear, clean, and easy to use.

If the developer wanted to add a couple of improvements, I would suggest these two:

1. Add a separate field that could be used to enter the declension of nouns, as the JACT textbooks do. E.g., 1a, 2b, 3f, etc. This would help the student learn the class to which the noun belongs as well as its meaning. Why a separate field? See suggestion 2.

2. And to make this more powerful, allow some sorting capabilities on parts of speech and, following up on the suggestion above, sorting on noun classes. Sometimes one might want to drill just on adverbs. Or on nouns of the declension 3c. Or prepositions, etc.

For anyone using the JACT Greek program, this is an invaluable tool, whether for iPad, iPhone, or both.

Kudos to Matt Neuburg for a great app that eases learning a classical language, helping to bridge the ancient world with the modern.

Four stars only because of the suggested missing elements.