Learn French with Flash cards!

I really like reword, no need to set up anything. Just choose the category of words you want to learn. 8 bucks per year, you can upload anki decks if you want, you can add your own words. I already learned Spanish using reword and it’s not perfect but it’s great for building vocabulary

Buckle up! This is not going to be short review haha This app has been a great resource while I am studying for the TCF for immigration to Canada. There are a lot of great things about this app, but a few things keep it from being a perfect 5 stars. The problems: (1) the app only stores data locally on your device, so if you plan on going back and forth between an iPad and your phone your progress will not be the same. This honestly hasn’t been a huge deal for me because I chose to use my phone for general vocabulary and my iPad for grammar related vocab (like conjugations and verb/preposition pairs). The downside is that I can’t back up either device now because it will automatically override the other save. (2) When you want to create a CSV and import big lists of words onto the app, if the word already exists on their premade lists it will erase your new card and just put theirs in your category. I then have to go in and manually change each card that was replaced with what I wanted it to say. (3) To combat the issue from problem #2 I tried to just delete the words already in the app. However, there is no way to delete the premade categories all at once and if you want to delete any words on these lists you have to do it individually. I did in fact do this and it took forever because there are like 3,000+ words preloaded. Why go through all this trouble? A couple of reasons: the premade cards have additional pronunciations added to each card and they don’t read the article (le,la,un,une, etc). This is a problem if you are trying to learn words with their genders. Also, the cards don’t always include the masculine and feminine version of an adjective. Also, I found it difficult to go from English to French when the adjectives and adverbs weren’t labeled. (4) Probably the worst thing about the app is that you cannot edit or create new words with an external keyboard. For instance, I will be studying a group of words on my iPad that has an attached keyboard and I will notice a card has an error. If I click edit, it will open the card details but I literally can’t click and type in any cell. So I have to disconnect from the keyboard, fix it using the touch screen keyboard, and then reconnect when I am done. It is extremely tedious. This is also the case if you just want to add a few cards to a list. You can click add word but none of the cells are typeable. I did reach out and they said they didn’t know that this was an issue and would look into a fix. Fingers crossed because I could honestly overlook the other things if I could use my keyboard all the time. Final thoughts, overall the best app that is affordable and user friendly to study French. Every time I think maybe there is a better app, I go poke around and nothing works as easy or as well as this app. Ideas to make it perfect: fix keyboard bug and provide a way to download the app either with a blank slate (no cards) or an easier way to remove existing cards for people like me who want all their cards in a specific format.

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