Picture Dictionary - BabelDeck app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Triple Happiness
First release : 26 Jan 2012
App size: 25.52 Mb
“Simple, but smart!”
MacWorld
BabelDeck is your perfect travel companion when visiting countries where you don’t speak the language – and nobody understands yours. With over a 1000 color photos and symbols BabelDeck is a powerful communications tool to help you in all kinds of situations. A user wrote and said “It is hard to put up a charade about parsley” And yes, is far more easy to open this app and show the picture! If there something you don’t eat or like you can cross out the picture show an image that everyone will understand. There is also a Negotiator to help you talk about prices, and you can use the camera to add your own pictures to the Favorites section
For extra clarity every word can be translated to and from Arabic, Burmese, Cantonese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindu, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, all in all 30 languages.
Who uses this app? Tourists, Expats, Backpackers and Business travellers. It is also popular among people who find it hard to speak for medical reasons.
Latest reviews of Picture Dictionary - BabelDeck app for iPhone and iPad
No audio - such an obvious addition :( No entry for ants. Wobbly scrolling. And how does this simple app manage to only support iOS 7+?!
Bummer, because pronunciation is a key to learning a new language. Having the words written out is ok, but actually having the correct pronunciation for each word would really make this app useful. For now it is only kind of convenient.
Purchased for Portuguese translation, but current version only displays English when translating to Portuguese. Other languages translate properly. Excellent idea but current version appears buggy.
This has come in handy many times. Great concept.