Libera: Parallel Text Reader

Only few selection of text available to download for few languages. There is 1 free document to test the app but if you are a Japanese speaker learning English. If you are learning Arabic, you have to pay and buy 1 story even to test the app, simply stupid.

Love the ability to slow the speed down to where I can ACTUALLY follow along … also, the change from male to female voice keeps the sound from getting boring … excellent language learning help.

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Wonderful well rounded app. Their customer support is up in the heavens too.

Finally there is an App that a student of the Arabic Language can use in conjunction with an instructor, or independently. Libera : Parallel Text Reader is an outstanding App, that allows a student to listen to the story of Ali Baba in Arabic, read by a native speaker. The App is simply remarkable. I would highly recommend it to anyone who's serious about learning the Arabic Language. Five stars + Five stars . It's outstanding !!!

This is the perfect app for anyone studying Arabic. It gives you the Arabic text side by side with the English translation (which you can hide if you want), and will even read the Arabic out loud so you can hear exactly how the words are pronounced. The best part, though, is that you can click on any word and get the definition and all of the grammatical info. The app is also easy to use and very attractive, design-wise. My only quibble is that I'm not a big fan of the vowelling scheme they use. They vowel everything (and I mean *everything*!), which seems cluttered and unnecessary to me. (Do we really need to know that there's a fat-ha before a taa marbouta?) But I don't know, maybe some people like that. It lets you turn off all vowelling — maybe add an option for minimal/necessary vowelling only?) But that little complaint doesn't detract from my overall enjoyment of the app. I've already worked my way through Ali Baba and I'm hoping they offer some more texts for it soon!

brilliant. a perfect language learning app. can’t wait for more content. also, i can’t believe i’m still the only review. this app is amazing! keep up the great work and please add the chinese etc. update: november (friday) the twentieth. after upgrading my phone, i had a problem with the app stories not loading and crashing the app. i fixed this by unsyncing the app, and then resyncing it. then i had to “repurchase” the stories. this is still a bit hairy, as i was forced to “buy” them again for $10 apiece before the app tells me that i have already purchased them and can download them again for free. this needs to be fixed to be the other way around, as it requires “risking” $10 just to get the story back. also, also… the speed controls and voice choices never worked on the iphone. speed was always “slow”, and voice was always male, even when set to “female”. again, this app is totally awesome. i’m sure it will take off once you post more new stories. most people are not going to buy it to get the same stories they already bought on your old platform. like your arabic verb conjugator, there is just nothing else like this out there. although it is so perfect, it seems completely and utterly obvious, after the fact. the chinese and japanese demos look great. i can’t wait.