Collins English<->French Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio app for iPhone and iPad

4.1 ( 4191 ratings )

Travel Reference
Developer: MobiSystems, Inc.

2.99 USD

Current version: 4.02, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 25 May 2010
App size: 31.74 Mb

With over 2,000 “survival” phrases and 10,000 words the English-French-English Collins Phrasebook & Dictionary will meet all your language needs and will make your trips more comfortable and fun. Native speaker audio pronunciation for each expression and word included will help you express yourself in each situation and never be short of words.

From the Europe’s top bilingual dictionary publisher this software includes:

Phrasebook:
* Over 2,000 phrases covering common travel situations
* Phrases organised under 12 main topics and into 67subtopics.
* Topics covered are: talking to people, getting around, accommodation, shopping, leisure, communications, practicalities, health and beauty, exchange visitors, eating and drinking, and time. All phrases include the masculine and feminine forms where appropriate.

Mini dictionary:
* 10,000 entries per language.
* Relevant linguistic information such as part of speech and gender.
* Feminine and irregular forms where appropriate.
* Disambiguating information is provided for homographs (words that are written the same but pronounced differently).

Audio pronunciations:
* Available for each word and phrase in the Phrase Translator
* Collins prerecorded audio by native speakers

Pros and cons of Collins English<->French Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio app for iPhone and iPad

Collins English<->French Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio app good for

This is a very user-friendly program. I will be able to use it while traveling in France on my i-phone or i-pad to help with communication.

This is an excellent app. It is well worth the high price. I really hope that the developer will offer extra phrase packages in the future. I would pay to upgrade so I can add even more phrases to my app. Please consider this and I will love you forever. Merci beaucoup pour cette app.

Some bad moments

This app is a complete gyp, try in french " ouvrage" and zero answer on the dictionary unless I am using it wrong, I want to eliminate the app and my money back, Romain d Eprémesnil

I am very disappointed by this item. The tranlations are very basic. Many words or expressions are not translated. I will be more careful next time when buying something.

It is soooo weak! It is so bad. Why? Ok, it does not contain verb conjugation section. Second, verbs and words are given without explanation and there is no sentence with words given. I wasted my money, futher there is no grammatical information. Rubbish! Cambridge dic. Should be taken as example :(

I bought this application at the Korean apple store but there is no support and update there at this moment compared with US apple store. What is going on? Are you discriminating against Korean apple store. Please take care of this issue.

I bought this after reviewing many apps. I was expecting much more for the price and based on the reviews. First, the dictionary is one long stream of words in alpha. order (there is no way to jump quickly to words starting with different letters. Second, the audio is not very good. The speakers are VERY fast. If you are trying to learn to pronounce something, this is not helpful. If you are trying to develop an ear for someone speaking to you, then maybe this is realistic (but, not really since the questions you are asking are typical for the traveler and not the other way around).

There are some pretty good aspects to this program, but what should be the best parts are useless due to the glitchiness. The absolutely huge dictionary is unsearchable due to a glitch that kicks you out of the program. You cannot save any favorites due to a glitch that...guess what....kicks you out of the program. The pronunciations are ridiculously fast, perhaps true to life, but still, ridiculously fast. As usual with programs of this sort, it includes tons of phrases no human will ever feel the need to utter, and skips many they will. Its not horrible, but the glitches need to be addressed.

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