Arikara Vocab Builder

MHA Arikara Language Project

About this app

Build your Arikara vocabulary with the Arikara Language Project’s FREE vocabulary game for your Android phone or tablet. Quiz yourself every day to learn different categories – wild animals, food, drinks, and more! The free version of the app includes:

➢ 20 culturally-relevant categories designed by Arikara speakers
➢ 10-25 words per category, for a total of 200-500 words!
➢ Audio pronunciation and visual aid for each word in the category
➢ Quiz yourself by matching English words to Arikara words, and vice versa
➢ Progress through levels to unlock new words
➢ Track your progress and review words you’ve learned by category or activity

Additional categories are available (~40 categories, and growing!) with purchase of the app, for only $0.99!
After downloading and opening the app, choose ‘Download New Words’ to get started on learning Arikara vocab!

Whether you are learning on your own, or taking a beginner’s Arikara class, Arikara Vocab Builder will help build your confidence in using new Arikara words!

➢Designed for learning that is memorable and fun!
Each word you match correctly increases your score, and each level you finish unlocks a new one! Words that are not matched correctly are repeated until you master them. This repetition method is an effective learning strategy.

➢About the Arikara Language Project
Arikara Language Project provides accessible language-learning tools and resources – textbooks, apps, dictionaries and more - to help preserve Arikara. Get to know us at http://www.Arikara.org and check out some of our other Arikara apps!

➢Questions? Concerns? Please let us know!
We’re always working to improve our Arikara language-learning materials. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please send us an email at [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

These are the issues that I found after completing the app a few times. 1) I noticed that there were 3 different types of apostrophes used to represent the glottal stop. The following words below would need to be updated to use the most common apostrophe: hunaáʾuʾ -> hunaá’u’ hatuúnuʾ -> hatuúnu’ koohaánuʾ -> koohaánu’ waraáʾuʾ -> waraá’u’ hatuhwaapisíšuʾ -> hatuhwaapisíšu’ čeehahnakatoóxuʾ -> čeehahnakatoóxu’ neekawíʾuʾ -> neekawí’u’ skukAhaánuʾ -> skukAhaánu’ skaRAhkatAhaánuʾ -> skaRAhkatAhaánu’ šakuúnuʾ -> šakuúnu’ hutuúnu' -> hutuúnu’ 2) A few words in the "Spelling" column had characters separated from their accent / diacritic. (e.g. the letter ú had to be created by selecting the letter u and then a separate accent character.) The following words had this issue: tanAheesápat hunaaneskúhtš tsUhiínu’ načeehaahníhIt uukawiraáNUx 3) Under the "Classroom" row, there were two English entries for naawinaa’iíwat (paper & book). Because of this, you have no way of knowing which English term is wanted for the translation and you have to guess. Other than that, there are a few words repeated in different rows, but I think that will probably change once more vocabulary is added.