Learn Italian by MindSnacks3.3.8 - App Store

*** One of the best educational apps of the year - Apple (iTunes Rewind) ***
Now learning to speak & read Italian from your iPhone or iPad is a total cinch. With 9 addictive games designed for essential vocabulary & conversation skills, MindSnacks’ Italian app is perfect for adults, kids, students, or anyone brushing up on their Italian before taking the grand tour d'Italia.

Instead of tedious flashcards, our app is packed with entertaining games specifically designed to tackle the most common challenges associated with learning Italian. With lessons built around word gender, plural forms, and how to use -ARE, -ERE, and -IRE verbs, it’s fair to say we’ve optimized, or rather awesome-ized, the Italian learning experience.

Download the first lesson totally free and if you crave more Italian, upgrade to access all 50 lessons and 40+ hours of content. That’s more than enough to fill the entire Roman Colosseum (we double-checked).

* PRESS *

USA Today
One of the top-three iOS apps that “make the process of learning new words fun.”

148 Apps
"It's fun to do and it's amazing how quickly users will notice results."

Appo Learning
“MindSnacks provides some of the best instruction on the Italian language in the app-verse...”

App Safari
"This app is not just your average, run-of-the-mill crash course... It includes complex exercises, challenges, and lessons that make the learning process fun and effective."

* FEATURES *

-- 9 addictive and unique games
-- 1000+ Italian words & phrases to study and master
-- Spoken audio clips provided by a native Italian speaker to help with pronunciation
-- Hand-illustrated image library to help memorize words
-- 50 Italian lessons designed by Ivy League instructors (upgrade required)
-- Personalized learning algorithms to maximize memorization, retention & contextual usage
-- Enhanced review mode lets you replay previously mastered lessons
-- Additional quests & challenges will keep you motivated
-- Not a single boring, mind-numbing or snooze-inducing quiz, class or lesson allowed

* WHAT OUR (SUPER AWESOME) FANS HAVE TO SAY *

“I got this app to help me learn as much Italian as I could before a two week vacation to Italy. I'm currently over half way done with my vacation and the app was a huge help!”

“I found Mindsnacks (from the comfort of my pillow) by doing a web search for ‘best app to learn Italian’....Within 15 minutes I had learned to count to ten (AND I also knew how to spell the words).”

“Great app!! Fun and makes it easy to learn! Well worth the money!”

* THE SCIENCE BEHIND MINDSNACKS *

At MindSnacks we like to keep it fun, but we’re serious about learning. That’s why our Italian app includes 9 challenging games designed by Ivy League professors. Each game teaches a specific aspect of the Italian language, creating a well-rounded learning experience for both kids and adults that goes far beyond basic vocabulary flashcards.

Of course studying is only worth it if it works, so our unique algorithm reinforces the learning process using proven methods from the field of memory studies. Over time, the games adapt to your individual performance, selectively repeating Italian words, phrases and grammatical points with which you’ve previously struggled. In other words, as you learn Italian, the app learns about you for a more effective learning experience.

Perfect for beginning and intermediate learners of Italian, Mindsnacks is like a helpful new Italian teacher that fits in your purse, pocket or ever-fashionable fanny pack. You’ll quickly become less reliant on that Italian dictionary so you can focus on more important stuff like booking your trip to Venice.

* SUPPORT *

For more information or support, please contact us at support@mindsnacks.com. Or if you’re feeling social, come on over and like, follow or tweet us.

VISIT US: mindsnacks.com
FOLLOW US: twitter.com/mindsnacks
LIKE US: facebook.com/mindsnacks

Version History Bug fixes. 3.3.8 05/13/2015 - Bug fixes 3.3.7 01/05/2015 Bug fixes. 3.3.6 10/24/2014 iOS 8 compatibility
Bug fixes 3.3.5 09/20/2014 - Fixed an issue were downloads would get stuck
- Improved iOS 7 compatibility
- Bug fixes 3.3.4 11/25/2013 iOS 7 improvements and bug fixes. 3.3.3 11/04/2013 v3.2.7
-- Fixed a few "Unexpected Response From Server" errors for iOS7 users

v3.2.6
-- Added an All Subject Pass Upgrade to allow players who've already purchased 50 lessons of Italian to upgrade to an All Subject Pass at a discount.
-- Bug fixes

v3.2.5
-- New "All Subject Pass" in-app purchase gives you access to all of MindSnacks' award-winning apps: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, Japanese, and SAT Vocab (excluding Kids' Vocab)

** Please note you must have iOS 6.0 or higher to download this version

v3.2.4
-- Bug fixes 3.2.7 09/30/2013 v3.2.6
-- Added an All Subject Pass Upgrade to allow players who've already purchased 50 lessons of Italian to upgrade to an All Subject Pass at a discount.
-- Bug fixes

v3.2.5
-- New "All Subject Pass" in-app purchase gives you access to all of MindSnacks' award-winning apps: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, Japanese, and SAT Vocab (excluding Kids' Vocab)

** Please note you must have iOS 6.0 or higher to download this version

v3.2.4
-- Bug fixes 3.2.6 09/16/2013 v3.2.5
-- New "All Subject Pass" in-app purchase gives you access to all of MindSnacks' award-winning apps: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, Japanese, and SAT Vocab (excluding Kids' Vocab)

** Please note you must have iOS 6.0 or higher to download this version

v3.2.4
-- Bug fixes

v3.2.3
-- Enhanced our Word-of-the-Day notifications (tapping on the notification now takes you to the app and shows a pop-up with the word)
-- Improved our training reminder feature
-- General app maintenance and bug fixes 3.2.5 08/19/2013 v3.2.4
- Bug fixes
** Please note you must have iOS 6.0 or higher to download this version

v3.2.3
- Enhanced our Word-of-the-Day notifications (tapping on the notification now takes you to the app and shows a pop-up with the word)
- Improved our training reminder feature
- General app maintenance and bug fixes

v3.2.2
- New social sharing features for Twitter (show off your latest high score, level up or lesson completed)!
- Fixed a bug that caused some players to download more content than necessary
- Various minor bug fixes 3.2.4 07/22/2013 - Enhanced our Word-of-the-Day notifications (tapping on the notification now takes you to the app and shows a pop-up with the word)
- Improved our training reminder feature
- General app maintenance and bug fixes
** Please note you must have iOS 6.0 or higher to download this version

v3.2.2
- New social sharing features for Twitter (show off your latest high score, level up or lesson completed)!
- Fixed a bug that caused some players to download more content than necessary
- Various minor bug fixes

v3.1.5
- Fixed the formatting on Word of the Day push notifications
- Added a setting to disable all sound effects in games
- Fixed problems with several quests not completing
- Made Facebook sign-in more stable 3.2.3 07/08/2013 - New social sharing features for Twitter (show off your latest high score, level up or lesson completed)!
- Fixed a bug that caused some players to download more content than necessary
- Various minor bug fixes

v3.1.5
- Fixed the formatting on Word of the Day push notifications
- Added a setting to disable all sound effects in games
- Fixed problems with several quests not completing
- Made Facebook sign-in more stable

v3.1.2
- Added tips to quest descriptions to make them easier to understand
- Improved performance for older iPhone and iPad versions
- Fixed bug that was causing rogue push notifications
- Modified XP curve (you now unlock new games faster, woohoo!)
- Additional bug and crash fixes 3.2.2 06/17/2013 Fixed the formatting on Word of the Day push notifications 3.1.5 05/07/2013 - Fixed crash on launch for users who upgraded from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3
- Added a setting to disable all sound effects in games
- Fixed problems with several quests not completing
- Made Facebook sign-in a lot more stable 3.1.4 04/30/2013 - Added a setting to disable all sound effects in games
- Fixed problems with several quests not completing
- Made Facebook sign-in a lot more stable 3.1.3 04/30/2013 - Added tips to quest descriptions to make them easier to understand
- Improved performance for older iPhone and iPad versions
- Fixed bug that was causing rogue push notifications
- Modified XP curve (you now unlock new games faster, woohoo!)
- Additional bug and crash fixes 3.1.2 04/01/2013 - Fixed a few nasty crashes in Slider and Bloon
- Added an animated tutorial for Word Birds
- Squashed a bug related to completing quests
- Added a new feature that allows you to reset all of your progress at any time 3.1.0 03/05/2013 - Improved downloading speed and performance
- Squashed a number of nasty little bugs that were causing the app to crash
- Improvements to Review screen: better color contrast + vocab items arranged according to lesson order
- Fixed a really overzealous deadlock detector

(What's a deadlock detector? Funny you should ask. It's a piece of code that shuts down your app when it takes longer than expected to do something. We can be kind of impatient.) 3.0.6 02/12/2013 -- Improved word selection algorithm so players see fewer repeated words at the end of a lesson

-- Improved Word of the Day notifications

We've fixed a number of bugs, and are working on another update in response to your feedback. We want to thank everyone for writing in, and we'll have more treats and fixes in the next update! 3.0.4 01/03/2013 -- We have 6 (yes, six!) delicious new games for you and 3 totally redesigned classics, all of them crafted by education experts to have you speaking Italian faster than you can say “Io parlo Italiano!”

-- Optimized for iPad & iPhone 5. (Hurray!)

-- You asked for it, so we built it: a new review mode lets you polish up either individual lessons or else all of the content you’ve completed so far.

-- Our art team designed a snazzy new interface and image library that makes learning Italian even more fun, addictive, and gosh-darn zany.

-- Plenty of bonus games to hone conversation and grammar skills.

-- We rebuilt the user profile to provide more data about your performance across a variety of language skills including spelling, rapid recall, error recognition – and more! 3.0.3 12/19/2012 - Bug fixes 2.5.18 11/21/2012 -- Dozens of changes under the hood. (We've got a HUGE release coming soon, and these changes make it possible.)
-- Streamlined account settings give you (yes, you!) even more control.
-- Solved a crash that was occurring at launch for some iOS 6 users.
-- Oh, and we squashed some other pesky bugs too! 2.5.17 11/07/2012 - Improved iOS 5 Compatibility
- Improved Facebook integration
- Lots of spiffy improvements and bugfixes! 2.5.7 12/19/2011 - iOS 5 Compatibility
- Bug fixes 2.4.13 12/07/2011 * Important: problems with images not appearing may be solved by re-installing the app. You can use your MindSnacks account to restore your progress, and continue playing exactly where you left off.

- Fix an issue with account creation
- Minor bugfixes 2.4.7 10/27/2011