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J. Olson

Cardinal - An elegant bilingual dictionary with flashcards

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Cardinal is an elegant bilingual dictionary for English erudites and language learners.
Easily create your own custom flashcard decks for vocabulary and phrases. Enjoy beautiful light and dark themes, notifications, home widgets and more.

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Nastya Mikeyeva
@japhia_olson It is a great app. How many languages does it contain?
J. Olson
Maker
@mikeyeva Thanks. Other than English it has 6 additional languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan. We're looking at adding more languages pretty soon (focused on Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian next).
Brendan Martin
Maker
Hey everyone, The idea for Cardinal came from our annoyance of always looking up words and subsequently forgetting what they meant soon after. Looking through the app store, we couldn’t find an attractive and reliable dictionary that let us favorite and study the words we searched, as well as backup our data across devices. So we decided to scratch our own itch. After a few months of development, we thought the interface would be perfect for learning languages as well since we’re always questioning “what’s this in Spanish?” or “what’s that in German?” We decided to expand the app to include other languages, which allowed us to translate English searches into another language, but with the added benefit of seeing usages so you know which translation is the one you’re looking for. Now, just like with English, we can add words and phrases to spaced repetition decks for memorization. There’s tons of other features we just had to add in as well, like words by frequency, high-quality pronunciations from AI services, importing of foreign text for auto-splitting into decks, ability to play phrases in the background, and more! We really hope you enjoy the work we put into Cardinal, and we’re looking forward to your feedback so we can make it even better for learning. Thanks!
Calum Webb
Love the look of the app, it looks so friendly! Are there plans to also release the app on iOS?
J. Olson
Maker
@calum Thanks a lot! Yep, iOS version is in the works, should be shipping it within a 2-3 weeks.
Basim aman
Nice app
J. Olson
Maker
@basim_aman Thanks!
Ravi Mohan
This is a great idea. my daughter reads lot of books and always asks me meaning of so many words and i have to look for the meaning on dictionary or google. IT was so painful and time consuming. This is great way to check the meaning and also building a list. (Similar to The book thief movie :)
J. Olson
Maker
@ravi_mohan1 Thank you! Yeah, we really focused on making the app easy/quick and pleasant to use, hope it makes a big difference to you two and happy to hear any feedback.
ISHTIAK TURZO
Nice apo but it get log out automatically every time i close app fix this bro
J. Olson
Maker
@turzo1 Hi Istiak, apprectiate the note. We can't recreate this issue on any of our test devices, could you list the exact actions you took where this happened? For example, opened the app > signed in with a social Google account > closed the app. As well as Android version (e.g., Android 9). Thanks a lot!
Abdul
great’l. no Arabic though:(
Mihir X
Nice app. More the languages wider the user base. Best of luck :D
Alessandro Valenza
I think that visuals are so optimal for learning a language!
ISHTIAK TURZO
The issue i mentioned, solved after 3/4 days.it's great app i am using it, i would suggest if could add Google lens option to easily identify and learn meaning of new words while watching movies.
Rens van Dongen
Tried the pro app with a language deck but I can't figure out how to rehearse with those cards. I want to extend my daily Duolingo practice with a game-like flow, and either this app isn't designed to do that, or I'm just confused.
J. Olson
Maker
@mosymuis Hi Rens, once you get a vocabulary deck then you just tap the deck or the header cards (e.g., "Spanish Words"). And every day you will see what cards are due and can practice from the decks page. Were you looking for or expecting something else?