Tango - Japanese Vocabulary Tr

Jan Dreiskemper

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About this app

Tango is an All-In-One Vocabulary Trainer for beginners up to advanced learners. Tango uses Space Repetition to help you learn new words and Kanjis as efficient as possible. You can learn by choosing one of the handcrafted themed Wordbundles or add words from your Japanese Class or Textbook.

Tango is meant to be your complete Japanese vocabulary storage. It helps you to get all the information about new words or words you already know. It helps you to keep track of your learning progress within the Japanese Language Levels.

Tango has a large offline database of all the commonly used words and Kanji together with audio. If you come across a new word just search for it and add it to your Study List!

Tango tries to offer you all you need to learn Japanese vocabulary:
• Vocabulary Trainer
• Kanji Trainer
• Offline Dictionary for words and Kanji
• Example sentences
• Audio training
• Floating Search box for Reading Japanese Texts and Mangas
• JLPT Level Training (JLPT N5, JLPT N4, JLPT N3 ... JLPT N1)
• Handcrafted Wordbundles for Textbooks like Genki and Genki2

Ratings and reviews

In my opinion, with a little work, this has the potential to be the best japanese vocabulary apps out there. This because the tests do not only quizzes you on definitions from japanese to english (or visa versa), but you get questions translating both directions as well as the japanes pronunciation of words containing kanji and identification of audio clips. All four, which are essential to learning are included throughout the quizzes. I have issues with font sizes and adding bundles though.

This is great app for practicing vocabulary. Because it switches between listening, reading and translating, it keeps you on your toes. I like that I can add bundles as I progress chapter by chapter through Genki, but can also add my own words to the rotation. The only thing I'm confused about is the algorithm behind the repeat function. I have a bunch of words stuck at repeat 5 and haven't seen them come up again. I'd love the satisfaction of getting them all the way to 'learned'!

Newly downloaded. Good so far, attractive material design, but one annoying bug: In "Train Listening," the recorded words get chopped off and the playback is a bit herky jerky. That's using the default setting. I haven't tried adjusting the speed yet. Also ideally would be great if each definition of a word had a sample sentence to fix the meaning in context, but probably too massive an undertaking for an app of this scope.