Cardinal

An elegant bilingual dictionary with flashcards

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An elegant bilingual dictionary with flashcards

4 followers

Cardinal is an elegant bilingual dictionary for English erudites and language learners. Easily create your own custom flashcard decks for vocabulary and phrases. Enjoy beautiful light and dark themes, notifications, home widgets and more.

Launch tags:Android•Productivity•Writing

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Cardinal

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Hey everyone, The idea for Cardinal came from our annoyance of always looking up words and subsequently forgetting what they meant soon after. Looking through the app store, we couldn’t find an attractive and reliable dictionary that let us favorite and study the words we searched, as well as backup our data across devices. So we decided to scratch our own itch. After a few months of development, we thought the interface would be perfect for learning languages as well since we’re always questioning “what’s this in Spanish?” or “what’s that in German?” We decided to expand the app to include other languages, which allowed us to translate English searches into another language, but with the added benefit of seeing usages so you know which translation is the one you’re looking for. Now, just like with English, we can add words and phrases to spaced repetition decks for memorization. There’s tons of other features we just had to add in as well, like words by frequency, high-quality pronunciations from AI services, importing of foreign text for auto-splitting into decks, ability to play phrases in the background, and more! We really hope you enjoy the work we put into Cardinal, and we’re looking forward to your feedback so we can make it even better for learning. Thanks!

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6yr ago

This is a great idea. my daughter reads lot of books and always asks me meaning of so many words and i have to look for the meaning on dictionary or google. IT was so painful and time consuming. This is great way to check the meaning and also building a list. (Similar to The book thief movie :)

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6yr ago

Cardinal

Maker

@ravi_mohan1 Thank you! Yeah, we really focused on making the app easy/quick and pleasant to use, hope it makes a big difference to you two and happy to hear any feedback.

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6yr ago

Tried the pro app with a language deck but I can't figure out how to rehearse with those cards. I want to extend my daily Duolingo practice with a game-like flow, and either this app isn't designed to do that, or I'm just confused.

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6yr ago

Cardinal

Maker

@mosymuis Hi Rens, once you get a vocabulary deck then you just tap the deck or the header cards (e.g., "Spanish Words"). And every day you will see what cards are due and can practice from the decks page. Were you looking for or expecting something else?

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6yr ago

@japhia_olson It is a great app. How many languages does it contain?

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6yr ago

Cardinal

Maker

@mikeyeva Thanks. Other than English it has 6 additional languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan. We're looking at adding more languages pretty soon (focused on Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian next).

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6yr ago

@japhia_olson There are pretty much languages. Thanks!

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6yr ago