Improve your German/English language skills while reading news.
This app is not being regularly updated anymore! Please check out our web app at http://www.Newsfluss.com/
Newsfluss is the perfect tool for those wishing to improve their German and/or English language skills through reading the news. While reading your favourite news articles, tap on words of interest to quickly obtain translations, definitions and Wikipedia/Wiktionary articles. Learning a language has never been so much fun!
Newsfluss collects news from popular news sources in the English and German speaking world. It also includes the ability to add custom news feeds for common categories so that you are always able to read the news which interests you.
Features:
- Instantly obtain a definition or translation of a selected word from German and English news sources
- Find further information through Wikipedia and Wiktionary
- Quickly swap dictionaries and news feeds
- Use the quick search bar to find any word in the dictionaries
- Add and delete custom news feeds
Dive into the news!
Special thanks to the FreeDict - free bilingual dictionaries (http://freedict.org/), the dict.cc - Deutsch-Englisch-Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/) and The Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org/) for providing the free multilingual resources.
Version 1.2:
- Images should be properly sized on high definition phones
- Checks if an offline dictionary is already installed
- Full text fixed for Spiegel Online
Version 1.1:
- Ability to download and install an offline dictionary using the word list from dict.cc