Papapapaya innovative vocabulary trainer for Mac

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Papapapaya 1.5

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See what's new in 1.5		Also available in the Mac App Store
Education discounts available!

Papapapaya is the new, fun and effective way to learn vocabulary using state of the art techniques from learning psychology.
Papapapaya's innovative learning mode will help you to remember new words more easily. And Papapapaya's intelligent Quiz will automatically ask you the right words at the right time.
To motivate you, Papapapaya keeps track of your progress in the detailed statistics.

Papapapaya is shareware and can be downloaded for free but you need a license key to unlock all features.

Papapapaya Learning Philosophy

Just like your brain, Papapapaya organizes your words in different memory levels instead of files and folders. This makes it easy to see which words you already know well and what you need to rehearse again.

Papapaya uses newest concepts from learning psychology and teaching sciences to help you get new words into your mind.

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Features

Get to know Papapapaya in our video tour.

Clean and easy interface

With Papapapaya you can focus on learning the language and not on complicated software. Our program is clearly structured, and so you will intuitively understand it and find what you need.

Vocabulary included

Papapapaya comes with basic vocabularies for some of the most popular languages. These vocabularies are organized in topics and can be imported individually.
Currently Papapapaya ships with wordlists for all combinations of these languages (each vocabulary contains 600-700 words):

German
English
French

The vocabularies are included in the Papapapaya disk image or can be downloaded as a separate package.

Quiz yourself

Rehearse the words and test your knowledge with Papapapaya's intelligent quiz. The Quiz will always ask you the words that are best to be rehearsed at the very moment. Using topic tags, words will even be asked in meaningful groups.
You can also get asked single words from the background while you do something else using Papapapayas unique PopUp Quiz.

Statistics

Papapapaya features detailed statistics so you can get an overview of your progress and stay motivated.

All Languages

Manage several different langauges at ease with live switching. Papapapaya has support for ALL scripts and keyboard layouts - including Arabic and Asian. The keyboard layout will even switch automatically.

Syncing

Papapapaya can automatically sync your vocabularies across all your Macs and iPhones and iPod. (Learn more about Papapapaya for iPhone.) Using the freeDropbox service you can access your words from everywhere: do a short quiz in the bus, quickly add new words in class and rehearse everything at home on the big screen. Your words are always up to date.

Import & Export

With Papapapaya's extensive import and export abilities you can easily transfer the words from your old learning software into Papapapaya.
And of course you can exchange your words with your class mates and friends or expand your vocabulary with wordlists from the internet (like those we provide here for German, French and English).

Discount

Student Discount

We grant 20% discount to all students
- you need to be enrolled as a regular student (school, college or university)
- you need to be 24 or younger
- only one discount per person

Send us an e-mail to discounts@mr-fridge.de including:
- your name
- your age
- school/university name and address
- a copy of your students card or other certificate of enrollment

Volume Discount

Volume Discounts are granted to all Schools and Universities. Discount levels are:
- 20% for 10-100 licences.
- 30% for 101-500 licences.
- 35% for >500 licences

Volume licences may be installed on your institutes computers as well as on personal computers of your students.

Write us an e-mail to volume-discounts@mr-fridge.de

We will then send you a discount coupon and further instructions within 2-3 days.

New in version 1.5.2 (2011-11-23)

This update is free for all 1.x users!

no PPC Support any more, the PPC-Version 1.3 can be downloaded here
now includes vocabulary lists inside the programm with easy import
option to count wrong answerd words as correct
option to enter synonyms with delimiter @
option to set font and font size
don't-ask-again words now displayed in gray
fixed: popup quiz would not ask the word levels that are manually set
fixed: don't ask again does not work for last word in quiz
fixed: papapapaya would swich when changing words in search results
fixed: restricting quiz to certain tags would crash Papapapaya
fixed: crashed when loading damaged file
fixed: bugs with languages delete in preferences
fixed: import problems with words that contain commas
minor bugfixes and improvements

System Requirements

Intel Mac
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Languages: English, German

Green License

All our Software-Licenses include a Green-License which means that if you want to use the Software you have to take action against Climate Change or Pollution.

Prices include 19% VAT for German customers (or respective VAT-rate for customers from other European countries). Purchase and product fulfillment are through our partner FastSpring (BrightMarket LLC.) using a SSL encrypted connection.

Rehearse	Your brain uses several levels of memory. New things will traverse theses levels from short term to long term memory one after the other. Yet this will only happen if something is needed often. So to keep it in your memory you have to rehearse again and again.
Sleep	Our brain is actually learning when we are asleep. What you learn in the evening will be strongly present in the next morning. And the more new things you try to learn the more sleep your brain needs.
Groups	It is very difficult to learn something without context like a single words. Our brain is highly parallel and it stores new stuff by creating links and connections. It is much easier to learn a group of words from a specific context together (like "things you need for Pizza" or "parts of body") so you can imagine a scene when learning.
Break into pieces	Don't overwhelm your brain. When you have 30 new words to learn, learn them in small groups of 3-5 words. When you know these, learn the next few. Also try to learn groups of words with similar context or similar letters or pronounciation together.
Senses	You should try to learn with several senses. That means to learn a word: read it aloud (speaking, hearing), write it down (doing, seeing), build a sentence with the word to better connect it in context. Imagine the meaning of the word: what it looks like and how it feels or smells.
Use what you learned	Your brain will forget everything that you don't use regularly. To learn a language it is most important to use what you learned. Read foreign books (children's books or comics to start), websites or news. Watch foreign movies. Try to talk as much as you can (in class or alone).