School is in. These apps help you smarten up for any situation, at any age.
The AccelaStudy apps ($4.99 and up each, www.accelastudy.com), available for 15 languages, each include more than 2,400 words and definitions, plus spoken pronunciation. You can study dozens of word categories, build your own groupings of words, take quizzes, and listen to audio clips.
The Visual Dictionary can quiz you on which phrases you actually learned.
Part travel–phrase book and part cram-session, the Visual Dictionary: ViDICTO+ Mytrip series ($5.99 each, www.cervomedia.com/il) helps you prepare for journeys abroad. It adds common survival phrases to a general vocabulary, and most words include a photo or graphic to help you learn.
The annual Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference draws incredibly interesting speakers and inventors from a wide range of professions. The TED app (free, www.ted.com) lets you view and search hundreds of videos of those sessions. The various subjects include the latest advances in science and medicine, anthropological research, artist profiles, and more. Take them as starting points for your own study, or just absorb as much inspiration as you can.
Video and audio streams present quick talks about things you probably didn't know.
Browse thousands of flash cards, or build your own on any subject with Mental Case ($2.99, www.maccoremac.com). Flash cards can include text and images, letting you snap a picture with the iPhone’s camera or dig through its photo library. The app can sync to the Mac version ($24.99), where you can prepare flash cards more quickly with a keyboard and mouse.
We pulled down these musical flash cards from a vast selection online.
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