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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!