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jscarbo · 06-23-2014, 10:22 AM

I'm a retired ESL/EFL teacher with many years of experience teaching English at every level from beginner to advanced TOEFL prep.

I think you'll find many more resources available for language learning for a tablet or smartphone, whether Android or Apple. There are numerous apps and online resources available for both. To the best of my knowledge, there are no e-book dictionaries with audio pronunciation guides and text to speech rendering won't help you much with learning pronunciation. If you go with Android, I don't recommend the Kindle Fire because the app store is much more limited than Google Play.

This article contains some good info about apps for learning English: http://busyteacher.org/12155-9-best-...-students.html

You can find many more resources with a Google search.

You may also find amazon's Whispersync for Voice to be a useful tool, since it allows you to read an ebook and listen to the audio book at the same time. It's available in Kindle for Android and Kindle for iOS.

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jscarbo Addict Posts: 220 Karma: 1075434 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Costa Rica Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle PW2, Nook HD+, Nexus 7	I'm a retired ESL/EFL teacher with many years of experience teaching English at every level from beginner to advanced TOEFL prep. I think you'll find many more resources available for language learning for a tablet or smartphone, whether Android or Apple. There are numerous apps and online resources available for both. To the best of my knowledge, there are no e-book dictionaries with audio pronunciation guides and text to speech rendering won't help you much with learning pronunciation. If you go with Android, I don't recommend the Kindle Fire because the app store is much more limited than Google Play. This article contains some good info about apps for learning English: http://busyteacher.org/12155-9-best-...-students.html You can find many more resources with a Google search. You may also find amazon's Whispersync for Voice to be a useful tool, since it allows you to read an ebook and listen to the audio book at the same time. It's available in Kindle for Android and Kindle for iOS. Last edited by jscarbo; 06-23-2014 at 10:35 AM.