Easy Vocab For Android: Improve Your Confidence in Speaking & Writing English

Of late, I have come across quite a few apps claiming to be best in the business for improving English language and vocabulary. A few managed to elicit interest from me but have only ended up disappointing. Few had neat aesthetics and design but lacked on features. The ones that had a myriad of features were either too complex or had an unappealing design.
All this without even counting a large bunch that I deemed not even worthy of an install! In fact, I was quite appalled that some apps even charged users an exorbitant price for a less than mediocre features and design.

Then, just as I was about to give up on the quest and consider the claim by all apps to be false, I came across the diamond in the rough – EASY VOCAB! Easy Vocab is a learner’s wish coming true. It focuses on the most important aspects of an education app – Education. Whether you’re studying for a competitive exam like SAT, GRE, ACT or LSAT or a just casual learner looking to improve on vocabulary, look no further. Seriously! It’s simple in design and has a really cool GUI. The menu is designed like a notebook on a desk, which gives a very personal yet playful feel to the app. Aesthetics aside, this app is also packed with some awesome and intelligent features.

Going with the name, the features help make learning Vocab really easy. The process is simple and trifold-

1. Learn/Revise (through the flashcards tab)

2. Test (through the quiz tab)

3. Analyze (through the progress tab)

Once you’re past all the three steps, restart the process. Improvement and personal action is the key in Easy Vocab. You can learn at your pace, at your will, have fun while doing so (even take a break and watch a few fun videos!) and yet feel like professionals are personally tutoring you.

The Flashcards have a funky layout and when touched reveal the meaning, synonyms, antonyms and the usage of the word. ‘Okay, what makes it special then?’ might be your question. Aha! That is where Easy Vocab surprises everyone. The Flashcards have a button console made up of three buttons – red, green and yellow. They are to help the user set the ‘confidence level’ for each individual word. As you revise and learn new words you can give each a confidence level, unique to your learning ability and speed:

• Red- if you think the word is really tough and you can’t master it
• Yellow – if you think the word is moderately tough and you might require some help to learn it.
• Green- if you know the word and are confident about its meaning and usage.

Once, you’ve set a confidence level for a word, Easy Vocab uses its ‘magic algorithm’to provide you more practice for the words you are finding tough to master. In short, it is focused on ensuring you REALLY learn (which app does that, right?). Truly a feature you must see (and use) to believe!

But, wait! There’s more. You can use the confidence levels in the quiz option too. In fact the quizzes are completely customizable – You make them! You can choose the number of questions you want, the duration of the quiz and what words you wish to test yourself on based on the confidence level(pick Red, Yellow or Green or a combination of them).

Once you’ve taken a few quizzes and you want to track your progress you select the Progress tab.  Easy Vocab provides an in-depth analysis of your learning progress. A graph plots the scores of all quizzes you have taken till date against the respective quiz number. You can also view data about how many flashcards you have learned and the percentage of words marked according to each confidence level.  There is an additional section providing details about your highest, lowest and average quiz scores. For the more meticulous learner, you can get information about each individual quiz too (as a pie chart).

Apart from these stand out features there are other cool features too like:

• The Star button – to mark words for later review
• Word search based on confidence level and starred words
• The awesome Video Wall – where you can view some entertaining animated YouTube videos of the words (great way to take a break and still get some work done!)

Overall, this app is extremely user centric. It makes a great effort to understand the ability of the learner and focuses on helping them learn and improve. The simplistic design and power packed features makes this a must get for any ‘linguaphile’.

To summarize, this app has something which all the other apps lacked- It has SOUL. It feels like everything has been designed keeping each individual user in mind, irrespective of their ability and skill. The considerable thought put into this app is clearly visible- the outcome is a clear winner that is crisp, concise, intelligent and powerful. The fact that you get so much for absolutely FREE has helped it find its own spot on my phone.

At present, Easy Vocab is available only on Android but there are plans to release it on other platforms as well. You can download the Easy Vocab App Here.