Build my dictionary

This application will help you build your own dictionary or glossary or vocabulary or… whatever else! It is so flexible you can use it as a support in learning new languages.

The power of the application is its flexibility and the capability to actually build your own dictionary, keeping track of words and terms usage in a foreign language that you may learn (e.g. studying a technical, humanistic or scientific discipline, or during traveling or thanks to friends) and that are no’t usually reported on dictionaries and or books.

Availability

The application, in its updated version 1.1, is available on

How to

Following a brief step-by-step howto to learn using the application.

Launch the application from your iPhone or iPod touch.
As soon as the application is ready, a simple interface is presented. Press “add word” button (a “+” at the bottom right corner) and insert the word.
Select the language you want to connect to the word. For example, you may want to insert the word “Apple” and select the corresponding language, “English”.
After this, you can insert a translation (or more!): for each translation you should specify the corresponding language. In our example, you may want to insert the word “Mela” (the apple fruit, in italian) and thus you select “Italian” in the language list.
You may now refine your dictionary: if you learn a particular phrase, a joke, or a strange and funny expression, you can insert it and keep it tracked. For example an old joke told to explain fruit is a good diet is “Una mela al giorno toglie il medico di torno”, which is like “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. You can insert the new phrase in the proper field of the table.
In order to add more translations you can press the button at the bottom right corner (a “+” followed by some lines representing a long text).

You can add easily both a translation in the same language, and thus specify different meanings for that particular language, and add translations into different languages, thus building a multi language dictionary.

Example 1

The italian word “piano”, which has three meanings: “slowly”, “piano” (the musical instrument), and “floor” may be inserted into Build My Dictionary as: