Last updated on 23 August 2016
Larousse just announced the release ofa junior dictionary specially designed for 8-12 year olds on iPad.
A real good idea and a real success that version designed for the retina screen of Apple’s tablet. The publisher was able to avoid the trap of simply adapting its paper dictionary by designing a new multimedia product from scratch.
The result is up to par and meets the needs of primary school pupils in the early years of secondary school. The Larousse Junior on iPad offers:
- 20,000 common names chosen on the basis of school curricula.
- 3,000 Stories of words to better understand their origin and evolution.
- Synonyms and opposites to enrich his vocabulary.
- Simplified conjugation tables of the main times.
- Grammar and spelling remarks to avoid all pitfalls.
- The changes adopted by the spelling reform.
On the iconography side, the app offers more than 3 800 photos, drawings and maps. 47 illustrated plates on themes as diverse as planes, birds, fruits, muscles.
Also on the menu is an illustrated timeline of 800 must-see events on world history, categorised by great historical epoch.
The dictionary also offers a particularly successful atlas with a 3D map and games to learn while having fun. All this at a price (a little over 7 euros) but above all a weight. The Junior dictionary consults offline but you will have to make room on your tablet to accommodate the 1.5 gigabytes of data.
In the classroom.
Larousse offers here a quality product for junior readers rejected by the mass of paper from the traditional dictionary. The publisher succeeds in restoring taste thanks to ergonomics without failing to get lost in this source of knowledge, which are dictionaries and encyclopedias. Get lost but not too much. The Junior Dictionary assists students in their academic research by sticking to curricula and offering rather clever functions. For example, incorrectly struck shapes are automatically corrected. One can also do a search via a conjugated verbal form. A good mobile tool.
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