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ClickThai Vocabulary
Trainer for iPhone® and iPod Touch®
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The ultimate ClickThai vocabulary trainer comes
with features that you have been waiting for:
- A whopping set of as many as 5854 Thai words with
their English meaning is included. No need to add own vocabulary
or to purchase fee-based enhancements.
- The carefully selected words are sorted into seven
stages according to their importance. So you can be sure that
the basic words are learned first and vocabulary will be expanded
and refined gradually.
- From the entire vocabulary, a pool of 100 or more
words is available at any time. Only when a word has been learned
and removed from the pool, the next one will move up.
- All Thai words are listenable as often as you need
it. With this easy to understand studio recordings of a male Thai-speaker,
you can learn to pronounce words correctly. And you can practice
the understanding of spoken Thai at the same time.
- Four different exercise modes are available to
learn every word in different aspects.
- Each word is presented randomly twelve times before
it is deemed to be as learned. But this assumes that it has been
recognized twelve times right because the counter is counted down
at a wrong answer by two.
- A learned and thus removed word from the pool is
still available in the review list. There you can see from time
to time and check if you still know the word. If not, then it
can be put back in the pool in order to learn it again. Thus,
the number of words in the pool can rise to more than100.
- The integrated dictionary knows all Thai words
from the training area. Because that's definitely the most important
words of the Thai language are, you can quickly find not yet learned
words when needed.
- Up to five students can use the program independently
of each other.
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For the exercises we have decided to use the multiple-choice, because
it is recognized for offering basic benefits. If you do not already familiar
with the actual word, it's perfectly legitimate to come across to the
right answer with the process of elimination of alternatives. The main
thing is to think about the displayed alternatives. If you can rule out
two of the three, than you know, that the remaining is the right one.
But this is only one way to learn.
Of course, the meaning of an unknown word can be displayed during the
exercise (tap the "Show" button), but then you lose the ability
to tap the correct answer for this time. But if this word will be randomly
presented next time, you will have an idea about his meaning.
The selected word and offered alternatives to the right answer are always
randomly and therefore different at any other presentation. They all come
only from the current pool. This ensures that the 100 in the pool available
words are presented within a narrow time frame to each other and learned
together.
Reading the Thai script is not subject to this trainer, but can be trained
on the way, if the necessary foundations are in place already. To assist
the Thai reading, transcription of a Thai word can be turned off. So you
are not tempted to read them instead of the Thai script. To write Thai
however is not necessary in this program and is not trained.
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With five buttons at the bottom of the screen, the operation
mode is selected. They are explained briefly below, with screenshots. A
detailed description of the exercise mode is given below.
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| 1. User |
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Picture 1 |
Picture 2 |
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Up to five different users can use the vocabulary trainer
completely independent of each other. To create a new user, only an user
name is required (Picture 2), to show later
in the selection list (Picture 1).
Papa, Mama and the kids may learn Thai words and must buy
the program only once, when the device is shared. Also, a single user
can create another account, for example, to start over again after a long
break.
After choosing a user, the exercises mode will come up.
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| 2. Exercises |
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Picture 6 |
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Four different exercise modes to choose from are
provided (Pictures 3-6)
| Thai |
A Thai word, with or without transcription, is displayed, and a
choice of three English descriptions to select the right one. |
| English |
An English word is displayed, and a choice of three Thai words with
or without transcription, to select the right one. The sound output
is disabled in this case - otherwise the answer would be easy to guess. |
| Audio |
No word is displayed, but a Thai word it is spoken. Also here a
choice of three English descriptions to select the right one. |
| Learning |
Here the entire pool can be browsed from the beginning to the end,
to see Thai words along with the English definitions. |
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| 3. Review |
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Picture 8 |
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In the review list (Picture 7) all
the words are collected that have been removed from the pool after the successful
learning. These remain deliberately in the order in which they were removed.
So you can check the top of the deleted words from time to time to see if
you still know them.
Under uncertainty you can again call the definition. If necessary, the word
can be restored from there back into the pool in order to learn it again.
On the other hand, the entries in the review list can also permanently deleted,
so that they can not re-enter the pool. The integrated dictionary is not
affected, all the words are permanently available here. |
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| 4. Help |
| A complete help file is included,
of course. All functions of the vocabulary trainer and the dictionary are
described comprehensively here. Also a list of all used abbreviations is
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| 5. Dictionary |
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The integrated dictionary is the same program as the large ClickThai
dictionary. However, it contains only the words that appear in the vocabulary
trainer. Since these are by definition the most important Thai words,
you have a dictionary at hand, where you will find quickly all the words
not yet learned.
The entries in the dictionary are often far more detailed than in the
vocabulary trainer, since there the definitions have been kept deliberately
short. In the dictionary, the details are the same as in the large ClickThai
dictionary (still available as an independent program with the full vocabulary).
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| Exercises Mode "Thai"
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Picture 9
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Mode selection (Thai, English, Audio, Learning).
The delete button (DEL) is activated only when a learned word
has been answered correctly at least eight times. A word you
have already mastered can be removed prematurely from the pool. |
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Name of the student as selected from the user list. The display
(92/100 in Picture 9) indicates that this is the 92nd Word
from the pool, which has currently 100 entries. The brief
progress bar shows how far the word is learned.
With three buttons, the user can select his personal preferences:
Sound:
Sound output on or off
AutoSound:
Automatic output of the Thai word on speaker
Transcript:
Show transcription or not
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Randomly selected Thai word, with or without
transcription, to which the correct meaning is sought. |
| White Area: |
Answer boxes that contain the correct and incorrect
answers. When you tap one of the boxes, the icon to the right
will be replaced by either a green OK-button or a red X for
a wrong answer. Then the response fields are disabled, thus
a further input is prevented. At re-tapping, the next word will
appear. |
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Forward and reverse button to browse through all the words
in the pool in the learning mode. In other modes, only the
forward button is activated to show the next random selected
word. Thus, the current word can be ignored, so it can be
neither counted as true nor wrong.
The Show button brings the definition to the display. At a
total unknown word you can look first, what it means, without
being counted as correct or incorrect this time.
The speaker icon let you hear the Thai word spoken from the
speaker or headphones. It can be operated as often as you
need it.
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The program is only available via App Store.
Price: 14.99 USD (11.99 EUR)
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Reference
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