Category: blog
Announcing New Features and Updates
I’ve been rolling out a few recent changes on the Alphabet Now applications. Most notably, you may have noticed an improved layout in the lessons section that shows mini-flashcards for the letters or symbols, first focusing on teaching the symbol names and then, as a second step, the pronunciation. By […]
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The armchair mystery of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán – Part I
Just a reference book, right? Recently I bought a copy of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán by Robert Laughlin and I did not expect it to become a historical detective story. I’m interested in this language for several reasons, I visited the Chiapas region of Mexico as a […]
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Arabic Alphabet Now App
The Arabic Alphabet Now App is a learning tool to help you learn to read and write the Arabic alphabet in either abjadi or hijai order. The entire alphabet is presented in 9 lessons that cover the modern script and vowel systems. After completing each lesson, a multiple choice quiz […]
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The Greek Alphabet Now App
The Greek Alphabet Now App is a learning tool to help you learn to read and write the alphabet for modern Greek and includes letter pronunciation. The entire alphabet is presented in 6 lessons that cover both print and cursive scripts. After covering each lesson, a multiple choice quiz will help you test […]
Read MoreGreek coming soon
I’ve completed the modern Greek app for the AppStore and submitted it for review. This now includes a few tools to improve my development process and I’ll be looking into Arabic scripts next. I started studying Arabic quite a while ago and found it quite difficult due to the nature […]
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Ukrainian Alphabet Now
The Ukrainian Alphabet Now app is a learning tool to help you learn to read and write both the print and the cursive Cyrillic alphabet scripts and letter pronunciation. The entire Ukrainian alphabet (українська абетка) is presented in 7 lessons that cover both print and cursive scripts. After covering each […]
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Cyrillic Alphabet Now
The Cyrillic Alphabet Now app is a learning tool to help you learn to read and write the core 29 letters of the common Cyrillic alphabet used in many Slavic, Turkic, Uralic or Mongolian or Iranian languages. It does NOT contain all the letters of theses languages, for example for […]
Read MoreNew website
With the updates and new publications of the Alphabet Now apps, it was time to create a new website. This blog will also highlight some of the development work being done. I hope to also document some of the language learning sources and activity I am carrying out. It is quite […]
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Georgian Alphabet Now
The Georgian Alphabet Now App is a learning tool to help you learn to read and write the Georgian alphabet, Mkhedruli. The entire alphabet is presented in 8 lessons. After covering each lesson, a multiple choice quiz will help you test what you’ve learned. With its simple interface you can […]
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Baybayin Alphabet Now
The Baybayin Tagalog Now app will help you learn Baybayin, a historical script used to write Tagalog in the Philippines. With this tool you will learn to read and write a Tagalog Baybayin script. This is not really an alphabet but an abudiga, a system that represent consonant vowel couples. […]
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