VocApp
| Available in | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Warsaw, |
| Area served | World |
| Founder(s) | Rafał Młodzki |
| CEO | Rafał Młodzki |
| Industry | Online education, Professional certification, Translation, Flashcards |
| Services | Language courses, Flashcard maker, Dictionary |
| Website | www |
| Advertising | no |
| Registration | yes |
| Users | 125,000 |
| Launched | 1 September 2017 |
| Current status | Online |
| Native client(s) on | Android, iOS, Website platform |
VocApp (BrE /vəʊˈkæp/, AmE /voʊˈkæp/) is a multilingual online platform based on a freemium system, providing language courses and lessons available on the website and mobile phones (iOS and Android).[1] Currently, VocApp offers 413 courses in 29 different languages (English, Polish, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Galician, Greek, Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Georgian, Vietnamese).[2]
Mnemotechnics used
The app uses a modified Sebastian Leitner’s algorithm that consists in spaced repetition.[3] Considering the forgetting curve, the app knows when you are more willing to learn and when you are not, when you forget words and when it is necessary to show them again in order to reinforce the gained knowledge.[4] [5]
VocApp lets users study from professional language courses prepared by the VocApp team (native speakers and linguists) and from sets of flashcards within lessons created by the VocApp community worldwide.[6] [7] There are more than 36,000,000 flashcards and the number is still growing.
Language courses
English courses Vocapp offers English language courses for beginners, intermediate, and advanced speakers.[8]
Courses for English speakers
Currently, there are 30 languages available for learning: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Romanian, Arabic, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Slovak, Hindi, Georgian, Galician, Greek, Finnish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Catalan, Luxembourgish, Japanese, Hungarian .[9]
Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Swedish, Czech, Norwegian, Chinese, Slovak, Ukrainian, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Georgian, Catalan, Luxembourgish, Galician, Finnish, Japanese, Hungarian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi. Korean, Arabic, and Latvian courses are in development. Vocapp includes basic language courses like Top 1000 Nouns, Top 500 Verbs, Top 300 Adjectives, Language in 1 day, Language day 2, and more advanced ones like Expressions and Idioms and Business language. Vocapp also offers academic courses based on A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 CEFR levels, with vocabulary and pronunciation practice through asynchronous voice recording.[10]
Courses available in other languages
There are also courses with different source and target languages than English (Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, French, etc.).[2] The list of courses available in other languages than English is below:
- Spanish - Vietnamese, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Chinese
- Italian - Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Polish
- German - Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Finnish
- Russian - French, Polish, Italian
- French - Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish
- Portuguese - Spanish, Chinese, French, Polish, Italian
- Turkish - Indonesian, Italian
- Vietnamese - Spanish
- Indonesian - Turkish
- Finnish - German
- Polish - Italian, French, Spanish
- Chinese - Spanish, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese
- Ukrainian - Polish
Interface languages
Both the VocApp website and mobile app are available in 23 different languages. The interface languages are:
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Romanian, Arabic, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Slovak, Hindi, Georgian, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese.
Investors
VocApp is funded by Simpact Impact Investing VC Fund.[11] In 2018, VocApp participated in the Google for Startups Residency program in Warsaw.[12]
Fiszkoteka
The original Polish version of VocApp is Fiszkoteka[13] - a multimedia flashcards tool for learning languages.[14]
See also
- Flashcard
- Spaced repetition
- List of language self-study programs
- Language acquisition
- Multilingualism
- Educational technology
- List of common misconceptions about language learning
References
- ↑ Collin, Daniel de. "VocApp Flash Cards – Free, Easy to Set Up, Excellent Study and Learning Tool - Emerging Education Technologies".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Courses VocApp - try it for free".
- ↑ "4 Best spaced repetition apps 2019". Softonic Solutions.
- ↑ "What is spaced repetition?". www.flashcardlearner.com.
- ↑ "How can I learn languages faster?".
- ↑ "VocApp Flashcards - Optimize Learning - technologies". Scoop.it.
- ↑ International, English School (30 June 2017). "Come imparare le lingue: le migliori app gratuite per Android".
- ↑ Glez, Jonay. "Aprende Idiomas Gratis: Vocapp, una forma original de aprender idiomas".
- ↑ "Courses VocApp - try it for free".
- ↑ meredithkreisa (28 November 2018). "Android Language Learning: 16 Apps You Absolutely Must Try".
- ↑ "VOCAPP – SIMPACT". www.simpact.vc. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "9 nowych startupów w programie Residency w Campus Warsaw". googleblog.com (in Polish). Retrieved 7 November 2018.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Fiszkoteka.pl". 21 January 2018 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Fiszki Fiszkoteki® to skuteczna metoda nauki, nawet gdy nie masz czasu ❤".
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