iBalkans Lite

iBalkans Lite is the first multi-lingual multimedia phrasebook for the Balkan languages of South Eastern Europe.

iBalkans Lite is part of the iBalkans suite and is truly a unique computer assisted language learning application intended for language students, businessmen, diplomats, visitors to the Balkans and people living in South Eastern Europe who wish to communicate with their neighbors across language barriers. It is much more than a travel phrasebook and allows the user to enter into the very heart of the rich and varied Balkan cultures. With iBalkans loaded onto the iPhone, iPod or iPad, visitors to any country in South Eastern Europe can easily communicate with the locals, thereby enabling trips off the beaten track and into the very heart of the Balkans.

iBalkans is the necessary travel companion for your journeys and work in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey.

iBalkans is also intended for use by the Balkan peoples to enhance international understanding — native speakers of any Balkan language can choose the English, French, German or Russian modes to communicate in these languages while traveling outside the Balkans. Likewise, iBalkans allows communication between all Balkan peoples — choose your mother tongue and the output can be in any Balkan language.

iBalkans Lite contains several dozen phrases and words in each of the Balkan languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, and Turkish, so your interaction can be handled in the native language of all the Balkan peoples. The app also comes with English, French, German and Russian.

Simply set your source language and your target language and iBalkans will provide you a natural translation of the phrases and words selected by our team of language experts. Select phrases from scroll down menus and your written and spoken phrases will appear immediately. All translations come with sound files of the selection recorded in a professional studio and read by native speakers and provided in native script (and in transliteration for non-Roman scripts, e.g. Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian). Study and authentic reproduction of the selected phrase is enhanced by short quizzes.

iBalkans is a native app and does not require cellular service or a Wi-Fi or internet connection, therefore you can save roaming charges and it will work in even the most remote location. We do not use commercially-available web-based translation services. Instead our team of native-speaker developers has rendered the phrases and items into their native tongues exactly as they are used in their languages today. We do not use voice synthesizers, but only real voices as spoken by real humans, living in the Balkans!

The phrases and items are arranged according to several useful topics: Essentials; Life on the Street; Eating and Drinking; Conflict What Conflict?; Travel; Romance; and 10 Phrases to Save Your Life. Each topic contains many useful phrases that have be field tested in the cities, towns, markets, airports, train stations, cafes and restaurants throughout the Balkans.

The iBalkans Lite version contains only a taste of the standard version, with several basic phrases in all languages. You can upgrade easily to the standard version, which contains all phrases and items in three languages of your choice. If later you find you need additional languages, simply purchase additional languages by in app purchase. If you are traveling or working in multiple Balkan countries, we suggest the iBalkans Full Version, which contains all the phrases and items in all languages, over 8500 items, all with unique sound files.

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