Norwegian by Nemo

There is nothing that annoys me quite as much as as product misrepresentation. So let's be clear about this "dictionary" (the search term I used when looking for this app). Unless you pay the full price of $12, what you'll be getting is a VERY brief, scarcely useful, phrase book that wouldn't even be useful for travel. (What good would something for travel be without the word "time"?) Please understand--I'm not saying we should get a full dictionary for free every time. I'm just saying, "Be very clear what you are offering." In addition (and this is not Nemo's fault, although a little extra guidance is always appreciated), I went to Apple's Keyboard Settings so that words I looked up would appear correctly when I saw them, but it offered (to my surprise) two different keyboards, so at this point I'm trying one of them to see if any of the words that come up in the app appear the same as they do on the screen when I watch my favorite Norwegian TV show on my computer or iPad. I have paid the $12 and downloaded "the full list," although at 1404 words, "full" would not meet some people's definition of the term, but I will leave it to each purchaser to determine worth. I'm just starting to learn Norwegian (although I speak English, Russian, and a few other languages, so that of course helps greatly) and so will no doubt acquire other materials to help me learn. Best of luck to all.

App settings allow you to control everything: how many words, how fast, record yourself, exclude what you have already perfected, practice vocabulary in context and much, much more! I love the gentle, encouraging reminders I receive every day via txt msg, at the time I chose! Plus many other brilliant features in NEMO! My Norwegian in-laws are impressed at how quickly I became able to hold simple conversations in social occasions and how I can get the gist of what they are talking about. I have only done about 40 hours of learning, so far.

This app is amazing and very easy to use. In other apps, after learning a couple of words they completely stop teaching them to you and then expect you to remember them later. Now, in some brains that might be the case, but most likely it is very hard for a person to do that. This app keeps you learning words while reviewing the old ones very often, helping you to remember everything that it teaches you. Within these couple of weeks that I have been using this app, I am able to recognize many words and phrases that are often used in the Norwegian language, which to me is very impressive. Very good app.