James Rogers Apps

Hi! My name is James Rogers. I’m a universityprofessor with over 10 years teaching experience, and have used myPhD research and discoveries made by my over 30 member researchteam to provide learners with resources to help make languagelearning more efficient. I hope that you find them useful on yourjourney learning a foreign language.This app teaches Japanese learners 500 useful idiomatic phrasesof English. It contains over 20,000 words of content. It is atextbook written and translated by myself, Cosmin Florescu, andHarue Usui, and is a collaboration with the best-selling appFlashcards Deluxe. This app contains 500 idioms, an explanation ofthem in English and Japanese, an example sentence,fill-in-the-blank questions for each sentence, and pronunciationfor all English contents. Also included is a custom quiz functionwhich you can use and send your results to your teacher with viaemail. This app also automatically sends all items you miss oftento a special “tough item” folder to make it easy for you toconcentrate on them. What’s more is it features one of the mostadvanced Leitner algorithms on the market to help you learn moreefficiently: you mark items you don’t know wrong and they come backmore often, giving you the necessary exposure to master them. Itemsyou mark correct don’t come back as often, so you don’t have towaste your time with items you already know. This method is provenby linguistics research to be the most ideal way to learn.We hope our app helps you improve your English!

500 English idioms, Chinese translations, 20,000 words of content,and more!

Hi! My name is James Rogers. I’m a universityprofessor with over 10 years teaching experience, and have used myPhD research and discoveries made by my over 30 member researchteam to provide learners with resources to help make languagelearning more efficient. I hope that you find them useful on yourjourney learning a foreign language.This app presents the most common 200 mistakes Japanese studentsof English make. 　Every mistake was taken from a real mistake madeby a Japanese learner. These were collected from over 80,000 wordsof student writings which were collected and analyzed to identifythe common errors students make (this study was also published as aresearch paper as well). By mastering these 200 common errors,Japanese learners can significantly improve on their accuracy usingEnglish.　　This app’s contents were written by myself and translated byuniversity professor Mayumi Uchida, and is a collaboration with thebest-selling app Flashcards Deluxe. This app features one of themost advanced Leitner algorithms on the market to help you learnmore efficiently: you mark items you don’t know wrong and they comeback more often, giving you the necessary exposure to master them.Items you mark correct don’t come back as often, so you don’t haveto waste your time with items you already know. This method isproven by linguistics research to be the most ideal way to learn.This app also automatically sends all items you miss often to aspecial “tough item” folder to make it easy for you to concentrateon them. Also included is a custom quiz function which you can useand send your results to your teacher with via email.We hope this app helps you to improve your English!

This app uses a unique “gairaigo” method ofteaching your child Japanese and English vocabulary andpronunciation invented by university professor James Rogers (learnmore about him and the other apps at www.smartsmart.org).It prioritizes a Japanese child’s need to first master Japanese.Although this app was made for Japanese learners, a native Englishspeaking young child could also use this app to learn Japanese aswell. By teaching pronunciation with both the English word and itsJapanese counterpart, your child will learn Japanese at the sametime as they learn English. Research has proven that exposing yourchild to the sounds of English at a young age will enable them tohave good pronunciation when they grow older. This app also teachesa child their first 100 words of English and Japanese withpictures. The words are presented in a game. The child hears eitherthe Japanese or English pronunciation of word (such as “table” and“テーブル”) and they must choose correctly which one they heard. Afterten correct answers, the child is rewarded with a short video (suchas a cute dog and cat playing with each other, etc.). The appcontains 50 videos, so it should provide endless entertainment foryour child as well.

This app teaches kids over 4,200 words (600words in 7 languages) via 2 fun games AND even allows you to inputunlimited pictures/audio to play with! It has:1. A picture matching game for younger kids (age 2-5).2. A picture matching game for older kids (age 6-12) thatrequires them to type the answer.3. An interface that allows parents to input their own sets ofwords, pictures, and audio, so silly faces and sounds, familymembers saying “hello”, etc. can all be added. The possibilitiesare endless!Yes, you really are getting a premium app for a non-premiumprice. No tricks whatsoever! Contents include English, Spanish,German, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean for:Small Things: 133 wordsAnimals and Bugs: 80 wordsBig Things: 79 wordsFood and Drink: 75 wordsBody: 37 wordsActions: 31 wordsDescriptions: 27 wordsNature: 27 wordsPlaces: 23 wordsPeople: 20 wordsShapes: 17 wordsColors: 15 wordsMESSAGE FROM THE APP’S CREATORHi, I’m James Rogers. I’m this app’s creator and the creator ofSmart Smart Educational Materials (www.smartsmart.org), auniversity language professor, a linguistics researcher and creatorof a volunteer research team with over 30 professors andtranslators around the world, and most importantly...a dad. Isimply had this great idea for a really fun app, and couldn’tresist making it! I used all my knowledge from my PhD research onlinguistics, and my knowledge of young learners (I started off myteaching career teaching children) to create this great app. Ireally hope you enjoy it!This app is great for first AND second language learning. Ihandpicked 600 basic words ideal for children age 2-6. But this apphas also been designed to teach your child a second language aswell, so children from age 6-12 can even enjoy it! It also takesadvantage of what we know about neuroscience and linguistics,utilizing forced production (users must input answers), Leitnermethod (difficult items are repeated more often), and optimal blocksize (20-50 words per set) techniques to help your child learnquicker. It even helps them to develop stronger general memoryskills through the card matching activity.There are two types of handpicked words in this app: highusefulness words and high impact words. This original concept ofapproaching teaching a child their first words is based on thefollowing idea. High usefulness words are simply that! They’reuseful in daily life. High impact words are different. They help achild’s brain develop by exposing them to unique visuals andconcepts. Such words include TIGER, AIRPLANE, and CASTLE, etc.These words help enlighten a child and encourage them to exploreand learn more about what exists out there in the world beyondtheir home and school.Did you know the most important time to hear a second languageso that your child doesn’t develop a heavy accent is from age 0-5?It’s so important to let your child hear the language during theseyears. It will allow them to develop the cell pathways in theirbrain that will enable them to speak that language with properpronunciation. In general, learning a second language at an earlyage is also very beneficial for general brain development aswell.Because this app has 2 games, a child can not only learn 1stlanguage spelling, but even a foreign language’s writing/spellingsystem as well. Thus, this app should provide years ofentertainment and education for your child.I really look forward to making more fun and useful apps forlanguage learners, both young and old, so please let others knowabout this app. Thanks so much!CreatorJames RogersTranslatorsJapanese: Harue UsuiChinese: Liú JìngrúKorean: Jiyoung KimFrench: Alexis D’HautcourtSpanish: Marco GuedezGerman: Ludwig Bahrke

This app teaches the most difficultpronunciation points for Chinese learners of English. It includesover 45 minutes of videos that teach all the sounds of English thatare difficult for Chinese learners, and even includes a specialquiz with 60 audio files to practice listening with.What is Smart Smart? (www.smartsmart.org)Hi, my name James Rogers. I’m a university professor with over10 years teaching experience in Japan. I’m also a PhD candidate whodoes corpus linguistics research, the president of Kyoto JALT, thefounder and Editor-in-Chief of The Kyoto JALT Review, and also thefounder and head of a 27 member linguistics research team. With theresources on this site, I hope to achieve my life goal of makinglearning more efficient. I consider myself to be a linguisticsresearcher and a language teacher rather than a businessman. Myresearch team has made some major breakthroughs in our research inthe last few years, and thus the materials on this site shouldprove to be very valuable to learners.Smart Smart has apps for language learners of all ages, and evennative English speakers. We have a VERY powerful children’s (ages2-10) language learning app available in 7 languages. We also havea major, very advanced app for learning English vocabulary/phraseswhich includes over 10,000 phrases and example sentences, with allcontents translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. We alsohave pronunciation apps for these three learner groups. Smart Smarteven has a VERY engaging textbook to learn English via modern musicfor these three groups as well. Finally, we even have a textbookfor native English speakers to learn everything about modern musicas well (best suited for young teenage music fans or even adultmusic fans). So, basically, there’s something for nearlyeveryone!The materials on this site are all based on the most serious andadvanced linguistics research. I have published, alone and with myresearch team, a large number of articles in blind peer-reviewedinternational linguistics journals, and spoken at countless eventson language related research. Thus, there are no gimmicks in ourmaterials whatsoever. We have developed true ways to make you learnmore efficiently, and as long as you are motivated to study, youWILL learn quicker using our materials…guaranteed.

Hi! My name is James Rogers. I’m a universityprofessor with over 10 years teaching experience, and have used myPhD research and discoveries made by my over 30 member researchteam to provide learners with resources to help make languagelearning more efficient. I hope that you find them useful on yourjourney learning a foreign language.This app is a collaboration with the best-selling app FlashcardsDeluxe, and is ideal for Japanese high school or universitystudents, or adults looking to truly master English. This appcontains approximately 2,700 advanced vocabulary to help you masterstandardized tests (TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS). It includes a Japanesetranslation, an example sentence (over 30,000 words of originalcontent), and custom quiz questions.Audio for all the contents is included as well. Also included isa custom quiz function which you can use and send your results toyour teacher with via email. This app also automatically sends allitems you miss often to a special “tough item” folder to make iteasy for you to concentrate on them. What’s more is it features oneof the most advanced Leitner algorithms on the market to help youlearn more efficiently: you mark items you don’t know wrong andthey come back more often, giving you the necessary exposure tomaster them. Items you mark correct don’t come back as often, soyou don’t have to waste your time with items you already know. Thismethod is proven by linguistics research to be the most ideal wayto learn.Mastering this app and our other general English app (whichfocuses on the most common 3,000 words of English) should lead to avery high standardized test score. Approximately half of typicalvocabulary on such tests is general English. However, the otherhalf of typical are very advanced vocabulary. Such vocabulary is inthe 3,000-7,000 range. Beyond the 7,000 range, the words have lessand less value for learners to get a higher standardized test scoreand in general, beyond the 7,000 range are words students shouldlearn on their own through reading.Therefore, we examined the 3,000-7,000 range, and any itemscovered by our general English app were removed, thus saving userstime so they don’t have to study the same word twice. Then, easywords that correspond to Japanese loanwords were removed.This study also took a very unique approach. It worked with a“lemma” list from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. So,the entry for the verb “walk” includes “walk”, “walks”, “walked”,and “walking”. Studying vocabulary in such a way is far superiorthan studying them separately. Clearly, a student does not need tostudy “walk” and then later on “walked”. However, this study tookthis even further because, in fact, a simple lemma list is notsufficient because sometimes the words that represents the lemmagroup (the “headword”) is NOT in fact the most common word. Take“spook” for instance. A native speaker knows that “spook” isextremely rare, but within its group a more common word exists:“spooky”. Thus, to provide learners with the BEST possible resourceour team of four native English teachers examined the entire listmanually for such instances, selected them instead of the headword,and wrote an original example sentence for it.This app’s English contents were written by myself andresearchers Ted Bonnah, Frank Daulton, Jean Paul DuQuette, andPhillip Montgomery, and by translator Jiyoung Kim.We hope our app helps you improve your English!

Hi! My name is James Rogers. I’m a universityprofessor with over 10 years teaching experience, and have used myPhD research and discoveries made by my over 30 member researchteam to provide learners with resources to help make languagelearning more efficient. I hope that you find them useful on yourjourney learning a foreign language.This flashcard app will help Japanese learners master generalEnglish. It teaches the most common collocations of English in theform of phrases. Included in the in-app purchase are over 10,000phrases, each with an example sentence (over 150,000 words ofcontent), with each phrase and sentence translated into Japanese(there is a free sample set of 50 phrases included in the freeversion for you to try out). A 13 member research team took over 3years to create these contents.Audio for all the contents is included as well. Also included isa custom quiz function which you can use and send your results toyour teacher with via email. This app also automatically sends allitems you miss often to a special “difficult cards” folder to makeit easy for you to concentrate on them. What’s more is it featuresone of the most advanced Leitner algorithms on the market to helpyou learn more efficiently: you mark items you don’t know wrong andthey come back more often, giving you the necessary exposure tomaster them. Items you mark correct don’t come back as often, soyou don’t have to waste your time with items you already know. Thismethod is proven by linguistics research to be the most ideal wayto learn.We hope our app helps you improve your English!Co-authors:English language and research: James Rogers, Chris Brizzard,Frank Daulton, Ian MacLean, Brian Murray, John O’Donoghue, GordonReidJapanese translation: Cosmin Florescu, Kayo Mimura, MasayaOkamoto, Yoshiaki Shimada, Mayumi Uchida, Harue Usui

This app has 2,695 advanced words to help you master TOEFL, TOEIC,and IELTS.

What is Genres?Genres is a textbook that discusses 34 popular Western musicgenres spanning over 100 years. It is a language learning textbookfor Japanese, Korean, and Chinese learners but can also be used bynative English speakers to simply learn more about music. Althoughit is mainly an intermediate to high level multi-skill Englishlanguage textbook, the materials are so engaging that nativespeakers can even enjoy and learn from its contents. In addition todiscussing each style of music, Genres also recommends songs andalbums as well. Included are approximately 500 songrecommendations, hand-picked by a well-versed music enthusiast tobest represent the genres discussed. Genres also recommends anumber of films to help learners understand the genre in moredepth.Genres aims to not only teach about music, but also to teachspecific language skills. It is designed to teach language featuresin the most efficient way possible: formulaically. Included are 170useful key phrases along with Japanese, Chinese and Koreantranslations for students to focus on and master. Through these,learners can practice not only vocabulary, but also commoncollocations and grammar. This textbook is also very flexible, inthat can be used to practice reading, writing, speaking andlistening in a variety of ways. Also includes are over 3 hours ofaudio files to practice listening in English with.About the AuthorJames Rogers is a university professor in Japan with over 10years of language teaching experience. He is a PhD candidate whohas done research under the guidance of famous ESL researchers suchas Victoria University’s Paul Nation. James has published a numberof research articles related to language learning over the years,particularly focusing on various aspects of vocabularyacquisition.Music has always played a central role in James’ life from anearly age. He is still an avid music enthusiast and even enjoyscreating music himself in his free time as well. He believes thatmusic has the power to heal, inspire, and bring people togetherbeyond borders, and believes that musical education is somethingevery person should have access to.Making Genres into not only an engaging textbook, but also atextbook that helps students learn language faster could not havebeen accomplished without the help of its translation team:Harue Usui (Japanese)Qinhan Chen (Chinese)Jiyoung Kim (Korean)Their amazing translation ability has helped to make Genres intoa truly efficient language learning aid.How to Use GenresGenres is quite a flexible textbook, so it can be used withstudents from a wide range of proficiency levels. Learners at anintermediate level of proficiency (TOEFL 350-450) is an idealtarget, but certainly not a strict limitation.Through the 500 songs recommended, teachers can also easilyprovide students with listening practice by choosing a particularsong to make a cloze exercise from its lyrics. Not only is this agreat way to hone one’s listening skills, but it also serves toincrease motivation as simply listening to music is an enjoyableexperience. Students can also practice speaking by discussing whatthey think certain song’s lyrics mean, and also via pre-readingdiscussions of what students already know about a particulargenre.While every learning situation is unique, it is estimated thatGenres can provide enough content to fill an entire semester of atypical university course (thirty 90 minute classes). In additionto the textbook, teachers can contact the creator of GENRES toobtain a huge database of cloze questions for each of the 170 keyterms taught. Furthermore, teachers can also obtain three readingcomprehension questions for each of the 34 music genre chaptersthat can also be easily used for creating quizzes, mid-term andfinal exams.

This app teaches difficult pronunciation points for Korean learnersof English.

Hi! My name is James Rogers. I’m a university professor with over10 years teaching experience, and have used my PhD research anddiscoveries made by my over 30 member research team to providelearners with resources to help make language learning moreefficient. I hope that you find them useful on your journeylearning a foreign language. This app teaches Korean learners 500useful idiomatic phrases of English. It contains over 20,000 wordsof content. It is a textbook written by myself andresearcher/translator Wonkyung Choi, and is a collaboration withthe best-selling app Flashcards Deluxe. This app contains 500idioms, an explanation of them in English and Korean, an examplesentence, fill-in-the-blank questions for each sentence, andpronunciation for all English contents. Also included is a customquiz function which you can use and send your results to yourteacher with via email. This app also automatically sends all itemsyou miss often to a special “tough item” folder to make it easy foryou to concentrate on them. What’s more is it features one of themost advanced Leitner algorithms on the market to help you learnmore efficiently: you mark items you don’t know wrong and they comeback more often, giving you the necessary exposure to master them.Items you mark correct don’t come back as often, so you don’t haveto waste your time with items you already know. This method isproven by linguistics research to be the most ideal way to learn.We hope our app helps you improve your English!

This app teaches the most difficult pronunciation points forJapanese learners of English. It includes over 45 minutes of videosthat teach all the sounds of English that are difficult forJapanese learners, and even includes a special quiz with 60 audiofiles to practice listening with. What is Smart Smart?(www.smartsmart.org) Hi, my name James Rogers. I’m a universityprofessor with over 10 years teaching experience in Japan. I’m alsoa PhD candidate who does corpus linguistics research, the presidentof Kyoto JALT, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Kyoto JALTReview, and also the founder and head of a 27 member linguisticsresearch team. With the resources on this site, I hope to achievemy life goal of making learning more efficient. I consider myselfto be a linguistics researcher and a language teacher rather than abusinessman. My research team has made some major breakthroughs inour research in the last few years, and thus the materials on thissite should prove to be very valuable to learners. Smart Smart hasapps for language learners of all ages, and even native Englishspeakers. We have a VERY powerful children’s (ages 2-10) languagelearning app available in 7 languages. We also have a major, veryadvanced app for learning English vocabulary/phrases which includesover 10,000 phrases and example sentences, with all contentstranslated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. We also havepronunciation apps for these three learner groups. Smart Smart evenhas a VERY engaging textbook to learn English via modern music forthese three groups as well. Finally, we even have a textbook fornative English speakers to learn everything about modern music aswell (best suited for young teenage music fans or even adult musicfans). So, basically, there’s something for nearly everyone! Thematerials on this site are all based on the most serious andadvanced linguistics research. I have published, alone and with myresearch team, a large number of articles in blind peer-reviewedinternational linguistics journals, and spoken at countless eventson language related research. Thus, there are no gimmicks in ourmaterials whatsoever. We have developed true ways to make you learnmore efficiently, and as long as you are motivated to study, youWILL learn quicker using our materials…guaranteed.

This flash card app, Japanese learners, general English to learnthe app, you can learn a phrase that has been used most often inEnglish as a phrase.

This app will help Chinese learners master English vocabulary andcollocations.