App Profile: Portuguese Verbs Trainer

Braque12

Rating: 2/5

I have been using this app for a few days and it has made it far easier to memorize verb forms. The dictionary alone is a great tool to see everything relevant laid out for each verb. Unfortunately, it contains serious mistakes. First, there are problems with the compounds of pôr (compôr, pospôr, etc.). These are conjugated as though they were regular -er verbs. As an example, for compôr, instead of eu componho, ele compõe, nós compomos, eles compõem, what appears is eu compo, ele compe, nós compemos, eles compem, and so on through all tenses and moods, for all compounds of pôr. As a result, virtually every form is incorrect. Luckily, these verbs are put in their own category, so you can ignore them until this is fixed. Some future subjunctives are also incorrect. For estar, this app gives estivar, estivarmos and estivarem; it should be estiver, estivermos, estiverem. Similarly, for dar it gives dar, darmos, darem, instead of der, dermos, derem. Finally, students of Brazilian Portuguese might want to note that they don't need the "tu" form, which is replaced by "você" in standard Brazilian Portuguese. Although it's good to see what these forms are, it would be very helpful if one could exclude the "tu" forms from the quiz so that one can work on just the relevant forms for Brazilian Portuguese.

He who knows, knows...

Rating: 3/5

I am at an advanced level. Consequently, I’m searching for a verb training app that tests and trains all moods, tenses and persons, NOT one tense at a time. This is frustrating. In a natural conversation, one switching from one tense, mood or person to another through the entire dialog. Testing one aspect at a time rather than having the options of randomizing ALL tenses, moods and persons in a single session is boring and frustrating.

M. Brendan Smith

Rating: 2/5

Some characters with accents are so messed up you can't read what word it is supposed to be. I think this corresponds to "ô". Also the quiz mode is not very useful and is buggy (for example, it is impossible to select prentice tense). Needs to be more mixup of tenses and subjects. For example, a good question with good answer options would be: pedir, eu, presente - pedo, peço, pido, ponho. That could be difficult. Instead what it does is: pedir, eu, presente - pedimos, pede, pedem, peço. And then it is a real no brainer and waste of time. Also does not used the novo ortográfica (new spelling) that has been in effect since 2008!