Description:
Are you trying to learn Spanish? If so, you know
that learning a foreign language can be tough thing to do.
Luckily, learning Spanish is mostly memorization. English and
Spanish are very close in structure that the main issue is learning the
words. So what do schools do? They teach you to repeat the
words over and over and over until you memorize them. This app
takes a majority of the most common words and phrases and let's you do
just that. These are specially designed flash cards to speed up
your rate of learning. They are broken off into groups to make it
a lot easier. Take this app with you anywhere on a laptop or cell
phone. If you have a few minutes to spare (on the train, on a bus,
at a doctor's office or during a television commercial break), then
practice off a few phrases. Use your wasted time to learn the
basics of Spanish. In a short time, you too can have it down.
Version 1.00 has the following sections. More
will be added in future updates:
BASIC: Adjectives -oa -a -os -as, Adjective Unisex, Adverbs,
Adverbs Multi-Word, Adverbs + de, Alphabet, Pronouns, Pronunciation &
Questions.
MISC.: Colors, Communication, Days of the Week, Expressions, False
Spanglish, Greetings, Household Things, Key Words, Months of the Year &
Seasons, Precious Stones, Spanglish & Special Occasions.
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There are 2 main pronunciations of some Spanish words: 'Spain
Spanish' and 'Latin-American Spanish'. The difference happens when
there are two vowels together such as, "Puerto". In Spain, each
vowel is pronounced seperately like "Pu" and then "er" However, in
Latin-America they add a "W" before the vowels and then sler the two
vowels together forming a singular vowel like "Pwer". Version 1.00
has the 'Spain Spanish' version. Usually, if you take Spanish in a
school, they will teach the true 'Spain Spanish' version. It's
easier to learn. In a future update we may add both versions.
- This app is part of the "Study Whatty" series. By using it's
engine there is the possibility of adding other games like trivia, word
games, match games and more. You can look at the "Study Whatty:
Poker Drills" app we did for some of the other games that the engine
supports. The price is reduced now as it's just flash cards, but
if there other games do get added, then the price will go up. By
getting the app now, you are entitled to future updates.
- 11/16/2019
- "Study Whatty: Spanish to English - FLASH CARDS" version 1.10
was uploaded to the Google Play Store (Android) and Microsoft
Store (UWP Windows 10). This fixed a bug where you could "see
through" the background messing up the game. It is now fixed.
- 11/04/2019
- So right on cue, Microsoft rejected the app just before 9AM on Monday.
After looking at the report, I found that the name for some app icons
were shown as "Poker Drills". I guess this is leftover from the
Study Whatty template that I used. I just forgot to change it
(There are a lot of settings. I mean a crapload of settings.).
So after changing it, I resubmitted the app. The Microsoft Store
is a pain in the butt to get something published, but they find most
everything. They actually go through the apps and do a lot of
checking to find those little things. That is a good thing.
BTW: If you look at the below
screenshot, you will see many numbers like 100, 125, 140.... These
are the different icons that have to created in PhotoShop at different
screen resolutions. When you add them up from all of the different
platforms, they number around 100. That's a lot of extra work that
the user never even thinks about.
The app was rejected because I had the wrong "Short name".
Microsoft Store Rejection letter.
- 11/03/2019
- The Google Play Store accepted the rating and it is now live.
This only took 3-4 hours to reverse (I'm not sure how to calculate this
as daylight savings just fell back 1 hour right before I was notified of
it going live). So no biggie. Now we are awaiting on the
Microsoft Store to do the same thing (although they seem to not to do
these things on the weekend. Probably Monday).
- 11/02/2019
- "Study Whatty: Spanish to English - Flash Cards" was uploaded
to the Google Play Store (Android) and Microsoft Store (UWP Windows 10).
- We
are awaiting on the Microsoft Store to verify and accept it. They
usually do not do that on the weekends so maybe on Monday it'll go live.
They have a very long process but that is a good thing. They check
the UWP apps for viruses and compatibility issues. They even have
real humans test these apps out. I know this because they rejected
the JJJ-JP-PSP app and even sent me a minute long video showing what the
issue was. I was able to quickly fix it and resubmit.
-To show
you what we go through as developers, below is an E-Mail from the Google
Play Store rejecting the app. The reason they give is that it has
offensive language like profanity. I wrote the app, entered all of
the content and that's news to me! Of course that was just an
automated response. Play Store usually has new apps go live in 2-4
hours with very little input. Now, the flash cards in the app are
just basic words and phrases. There is nothing special in there
and no foul language. I did appeal the decision. Who knows
how long until they sort it out? Once a real human tests it out,
I'm sure it'll pass their standards and go live. I'll update it
here when that happens.
Alphabet
Google
Android: Requires Android
32-bit (for now, but they are dropping 32-bit support in 2020) or 64-bit devices.
Requires Android 4.4 (KitKat)
(API 19) and OpenGL ES2.0 or newer. As of the end of 2019, less than 4%
of Android users use an OS older than API 4.4.
Alphabet
Chrome: Most Chromebook (Chrome OS)
models starting from late 2016 should have the Google Play Store
pre-installed to be able to download and run Android apps. Also,
there are some Chromebook models that will run Linux apps as well.
Some older models are being upgraded as well for Android and Linux
support. Check first before you buy.
Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad):
Requires Apple iOS 10.0 or newer.
Apple Macintosh: Requires Mac OSX 10.12 or newer. Requires a graphics card with
DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities or better.
Linux: Requires Ubunti 16.04 (or
newer) or Steam OS. Requires a graphics card with DX10 capabilities
(shader model 4.0) or better. EXECUTABLE FILE: Look at the last few
characters of the filename. ".x86" is the 32-bit Linux version.
".x86_64" is the 64-bit version. After clicking on the icon to run
the game, a pop-up may appear. Say 'Yes' to make it an executable
file and run.
Microsoft
Windows x86_64: Requires a graphics
card with DX10 capabilities (shader model 4.0) or better. Has both 32-bit and
64-bit Windows versions. It will work on Windows 7 SP1 or newer
including Windows 10.
Microsoft Windows 10 (UWP): Requires
Microsoft Windows 10. Has both 32-bit, 64-bit and ARM Windows 10 versions.
Requires a graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities or better. It
will not work on Windows operating systems before
Windows 10.