» posted on 3:09pm - August 31 2009 | posted by Lev

This is some "mywords" app on iPhone. I paid 38 kronor for it I believe (about 5 bucks)... You're supposed to train and learn 10 Swedish words a day. I stopped using it ages ago when it became really obvious that I wasn't learning much, if anything. There have probably been no more than 3 words I've seen that I didn't know, which is surprising because I don't have good Swedish.

The most annoying thing - as seen in this photo - is that sometimes translations are incredibly wrong... Not just a little off, but sometimes downright WRONG, and things no Swede would have ever known.

Take for example in this photo... It's telling me the Swedish translation for "Berlin" is "Bertil". WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

NOOOOOO

I asked Nero because I've NEVER seen that before and she busted up laughing because she's never heard that either.

I left a review in the app store (as I do for most apps I pay for), and mentioned this inaccuracy months ago. They've released one or two updates since then, and I just got the frigging word again; either meaning they don't care about their reviews, or they aren't all that concerned with spreading factual information.

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posted by: NeroAnima · date: 10:19am - November 08 2009

I'm gonna start calling my uncle "Berlin" now, haha.

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