JBP 3rd

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About this app

This App is a supplementary study material complementing the Japanese for Busy People I textbook.
Each lesson consists of the following segments:
WORD　POWER
TARGET　DIALOGUE
SHORT　DIALOGUE(S)
ADDITIONAL　STUDIES
QUIZ
A　BREAK
SETTINGS
*Choose Hiragana or Roma-ji on each page.

■WORD　POWER Word Power is an electronic "flash cards" with sound feature for pronunciation. Check off Memorized, once you learn a word. You can later come back and study just the words you have yet to memorize or all of the words in the lesson. Go to Play and choose auto to automatically scroll through images accompanied by sound. Slide the green button to change the setting.
■TARGET　DIALOGUE Study the Target Dialogue using the adjustable playback speed.
■SHORT　DIALOGUE(S) Study the Short Dialogue(s) using the adjustable playback speed.
■ADDITIONAL　STUDIES This segment includes additional and important materials not covered in the Word Power, Target Dialogue, and Short Dialogue(s) segments.
■QUIZ Take the Quiz on what you have learned. Repeat until you get all the answers right. You can also go back to review the incorrect answers.
■A　BREAK Take a break and enjoy of Japanese sceneries.
■SETTINGS The following settings are available:
・Default Hiragana or Roma-ji display in the Target Dialogue, Short Dialogue, and Quiz segments
・Word Power auto play speed
・Clearing the words checked off in Word Power
・Erasing the Quiz score

Ratings and reviews

A useful adjunct to the book, and it's certainly worth the money and will help in committing the vocabulary to long term memory. However, it can be quite laggy at times - I suspect around the playing of audio and/or saving the "memorised" status. I run a Motorola E6, so I don't think it's my phone. The quizzes are good, but could be better.

Very old app with a few noticable freezes and lack of support for Android functions like the back button, but it does what it needs to. I hope they make an app for the second book too. I've found this one very helpful.

This is an excellent supplement to the JBP book. It enables you to practice anywhere, on the bus for example. Its one fault is that there is no way that I can find to exit the app except by switching off your phone.

What's new

New Android version supported.