Vocabulum news — page 4

Settings lets you choose between Classic icons and Living scenes for vocabulary pictures. Icons show an object or action on its own; scenes place it in a setting with surroundings and characters. Choose the style that helps you recall words.

Scenes are not available for every word yet. Where a scene is missing, the classic picture stays in place. Switching styles does not change your words or practice progress. The pictures are created using artificial intelligence.

Cyprus facts now come with memory hints: short associations that help a date, a name or a place stick. The hints are available in English and Russian.

The grammar trainer moved on to harder material. September brought the perfect tense, mediopassive verbs and conditional sentences with αν and the future.

As in every other topic, a wrong answer comes with an explanation of the right one.

Words now carry a level, and the library has three new collections: Level A1, Level A2 and Level B1. Over the summer the dictionary grew noticeably, adding B1 words to the A2 vocabulary.

If you already know some of the words, mark them when you first open the app, and it will suggest a collection to start with.

The listening section is open. Each lesson is a short Greek recording with questions about it, and you can replay the recording as often as you like.

After answering, you can open the transcript and its translation. Lessons are grouped into stages from easy to hard, and finishing a stage opens the next one.