Drops Will Teach You Foreign Language Vocabulary in Just 5 Minutes a Day
iOS: When you’re trying to learn a new language (or any other skill), it’s often best to learn it in small, frequent chunks. Drops limits your learning time to just 5 minutes of vocabulary building gameplay per day.
Seriously, when your five minutes are up, Drops starts a 24-hour countdown timer for when you can play again.
The games are fun: you swipe your finger over the letters to form foreign words (Spanish, French, German, Italian and English) in order, choose the correct illustration for the word, answer true or false questions, and sometimes race with another player.
The developers at Plan B Labs have carefully compiled a vocabulary list of 460 most practical words, covering about 60% of everyday conversation. The app also presumably adjusts to your performance for the correct number of tasks.
This is a pretty fun and educational way to spend five minutes.
Drops (free) | ITunes App Store