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Selma

Easily learn a new language using your Android smartphone.

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Information

Selma is not (yet) available in the Play Store. You can download the latest version of Selma directly from your device and install it. Have fun!

Important notice: In order to install Selma you need to allow installation of apps that were not downloaded from Play Store. Go to “Settings” - “Security” and make sure that “Unknown Sources” is checked.

Until now Selma has only been tested with a selected few Assimil courses (e.g. “Turkish with Ease”, “New Greek with Ease” and Spanish). If you want to try to use the app with a different course, I would be happy to receive your feedback (positive or negative) and will try to make the app work for you.

Prerequisites

Selma is for you if you already chose to learn a new language using the Assimil method and own the book and MP3 pack. It is known to work with:

  • “Kolay Türkçe” (Turkish With Ease)
  • New Greek With Ease
  • Spanish

But it might also work with the language of your choice. Don’t hesitate to contact the author, if it does or does not work with the language of your choice. Selma needs a device running on Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) or above. Please note that Selma comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY (see the license for details).

Permissions

The app needs the following permissions for the following reasons:

  • Read the contents of your USB storage: The MP3 files and translations are stored on the USB storage/SD card. No other content is read by Selma.

  • Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage: The translations that you can enter will be written to the USB storage/SD card. No other content is deliberately written or deleted by Selma.

  • Prevent phone from sleeping: When playing back the lessons, the phone will not go to sleep. Going to sleep would stop the playback immediately.

Version history

Version 2.2.0 (latest version)

  • Added support for files from the Assimil PC software.
  • Improved way of handling several courses on the same device

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Version 2.1.0

  • Added support for even more courses, e.g. “New Greek With Ease” (Thanks Assimil Sprachverlag!).
  • Improved start-up time after the first start
  • Added possibility to modify/correct the original texts

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Version 2.0.1

  • Updated help to link to the introduction video
  • Updated link to homepage in error dialogs
  • Updated license to GPL v3.

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Version 2.0.0

Added support for showing/entering translations. Download

Version 1.1.0

Added support for other languages than Turkish after user feedback (Thanks Marcin!). Download

Version 1.0.2

Fixed support for Android 4.4 (KitKat). Download

Version 1.0.1

First official version of Selma. Download