I support educational emoji apps wholeheartedly.
Fun Fact: I first connected with @s2imon in Berlin. Right after getting the ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ tattoo Simon reached out, informing me he made the perfect iMessage app for me (he was right).
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@s2imon@nivo0o0 It would be really nice to see more language apps include Hebrew as a language option. I mean, I would love to learn French and improve my Spanish, but I would love a good language app to learn Hebrew as well.
๐ Hi Product Hunters and thanks to @Niv for hunting my emoji app!
1๏ธโฃ๐ก Idea
Exactly when joining iubenda over 4 years ago and walking through the streets of Milan I wanted to build a basic vocabulary app with flash card effect at the heart, that would teach me the most basic words.
2๏ธโฃ๐ช Solution
Then it hit me that the simplest thing I could do, was to use the emoji range. Emoji are widely known and used by a whole bunch of people and they're supposed to fill the most basic communication needs we humans have. So I began filling in spreadsheets with all emoji and seeing whether it would make actual sense in app form. I noticed that I could probably systematically put them away into different categories to make it even more useful and ended up creating some really great and silly categories that are now part of the core word learning flow within the app:
"Useful", "Smileys and People", "Professions", "Emoji faces", "Gestures", "Day", "Night", "Time", "Old technology", "Related to phones", "Animals and Nature", "Holidays", "Travel and Places", "Africa", "North and South America", "Europe", "Asia and Oceania", "Activity", "Roger Federer", "Love", "Crime", "Numbers", "Food and Drink", "Breakfast", "Objects", "At the office", "Zodiac signs", "Symbols" and "Population".
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My main thought besides basic vocabulary was to make it really easy to compare languages to each other. So this is what you can do now: swipe from left to right and compare English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German to each other. The immediate next feature is to offer this in quiz form within the app.
๐๐๐ Country quiz
All countries/flags are included, too, and in order to make this more interesting you can also guess their relative population count.
๐ Thanks and acknowledgements
My main shout out goes to my fellow maker and mentor on Learnji @Beamercola. Without him I would've never been able to build this in Swift, or as an iOS app at all.
In addition to this I would like to give a shoutout to everyone who helped make this happen in form of providing open source software parts. I'm not sure they always get the appropriate thanks, so this is my way of thanking them:
- Abbie Gonzalez (@antijingoist) for Open Dyslexic font
- Wei Wang (@onevcat) for APNGKit
- Alamofire Software Foundation for Alamofire
- Urban Apps (@coneybeare) for Armchair
- Raizlabs (@graiz) for BonMot
- Edwin Vermeer) for EVURLCache (even though I yet have to get it working properly)
- Frรฉdรฉric Maquin for Instructions
- PureLayout for PureLayout
- Kevin Lin (@kevinlin) for STPopup
- Nick Lockwood (@nicklockwood) for iCarousel
- Suguru Kishimoto for Alertift
One more thing:
when I already had my upcoming page scheduled (and the app itself finished for a while), Emoji Stone launched on PH with a very similar concept. At first I thought @nickabouzeid had scheduled my app early. I wasn't sure how to handle the situation well given that I had already been ready to launch myself. So I just shut up publicly despite being a bit bummed out, until now, and I figured I could mention them and this fact here. I've sent the two makers of the app an email privately as well.
@angeliquesocial hi there Angie. I can give you a resounding yes to this question. I'm already working on support for additional languages, plus actual audio so people know how things ought to sound. :)
These are my two favorite things Emojis and languages! Fun idea and approach. Would love to see a game making you guess what emoji means in selected language. Or maybe there is a game like this already? Please let me know somebody.
Thanks @s2imon for the opportunity to be a tester ;) Keep on going!
@zivilezickute haha it feels like that for me, too. I'm really excited to add Hebrew (since I've been wanting to check that out for ages) and other languages in the next version. And, yeah that quiz approach is what I wanted to build in version two for a very long time! Thanks for being a tester :)
Enjoying the quick interface to jump straight into this app! A finely tuned balance of giving guidance without laborious tapping of welcome and info screens. I look forward to seeing if this helps on future travels ๐บ ๐ฃ ๐ โ๏ธ
@jeremyburge really glad you're enjoying it, Jeremy ๐ค. Can I state for everyone that you're my personal emoji hero and that www.emojipedia.com helped extremely when I needed some quick information, better than my spreadsheets in certain situations.
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A very fun way to learn words in other languages using emoji. Had the pleasure of beta testing this with the German language :)
@davisonio Craig, me being a German native, you got the version that works best!
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Very cool and original concept behind the app: learn languages with emoji, something people use every day. Happy to be a beta tester ๐ Congrats on the launch!
@louthinker thanks Luis and thanks for all the testing which turned out to be mainly interesting because people seemed to share my own thoughts about where it needed to go!
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Great use of emojis for education ๐
Very fun and easy to use ๐
When I beta tested it and saw that I can use emojis and learn something at the same time , it was a nice discovery ๐
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