Anata [iPad]

Anata takes the video and extracts the voices and subtitle texts from it. You can learn to speak the texts by following the original voices with all different types of emotion. After all there is always a story behind these voices that you are so familiar and love, it makes easier for you to remember them. You can repeat playing particular texts until you fully grasp how to say them correctly and natively.

Important features include:

(1) Link to your favourite online language learning tools
- You can study the texts sentence by sentence, phrase by phrase and word by word with your favourite online tools. Since the subtitles are extracted from the video as editable texts, Anata can feed them into these online tools.
- Some tool provides romanization for Japanese and pinyin for Chinese that can allow you to quickly learn how to pronounce each word.
- Some tool provides Accent guidance for Japanese that can help you grasp the rhythm.
- Some tool provides grammatical breakdown to help you identify each part of speech.
- You can highlight individual word and phrase of the subtitle to find out their meaning and usage.
- You can add your favourite online tools in Settings.
- Online tools are defined by language so that you can have different set of tools for learning different languages at the same time.
- Anata comes with recommended online tools. You can use them out of the box or you can remove or disable them (in Settings) if they do not suit your learning needs.

(2) Search
- Once you have a few titles in Anata, you can start searching them for words and phrases and learn how to use them in different contexts.
- Even when you come across a new word outside Anata, you can also search it in the App to see if it is used in one of your favourite dramas and movies.
- If a word does appear in your library of dramas & movies, you can add it to Keyword for further study.

(3) Keyword
- You can collect new words and phrases as Keyword so as to enrich your vocabulary, which is important to become proficient in a langauge.
- As in Search, each keyword will link to the titles in which it appears.
- Keyword is also linked to online tools so you can perform in-depth study.

(4) Favourite
- If you like a particular “tile” (which is a term used in the App to refer to a collection of text, image and audio clips for a subtitle text), you can add it to Favourite for future review.
- Usually you like a small segment of the story that consists of multiple tiles. In this case you can add them all to Favourite to preserve its entirety.

(5) Notes
- It is important to write down your own thought and understanding so you can internalize what you have learned.
- You can take notes for both Keyword and Tile.
- You can study notes separately in the Notes section without navigating all the keywords and tiles. That gives you a quick way to refresh your memory of the key learning in the past.

(6) Explain
- Your online tools must be valuable to your language learning. So Anata provides a handy Explain section for you to send any ad hoc words and phrases to these online tools.
- You can also add these ad hoc words / phrases to Keyword, no matter they are used in your library of titles or not.

(7) Multiple Languages Supported
- Japanese, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified) and English

(8) In-App Purchase
- Anata is free for use with a limited number of titles and keywords you can add. Apart from that, all functionalities of the App are available though.
- Anata Unlimited is available for purchase in the In-App Purchase section.

Anata is meant to be a supplementary tool to your language learning need. It does not replace your main standard and essential learning courses and textbooks. You are advised to acquire a basic knowledge of a language (eg basic grammar) before you can reap the benefit of using Anata to improve your proficiency.