Learning Arabic – Word Search Brain Puzzle Game Review

I’m in the process of teaching myself Arabic and found this app. It’s helping me learn to dissect combined words and then find the individual letters on the word grid. The app works flawlessly and, in my humble opinion, is a marvel considering the languages being used in one app. This must take a lot of time to make it work so smoothly. I have yet to experience problems with it freezing or shutting down unexpectedly. It also opens quickly without delay. I have a lot of fun running my fingers down the grid to see how the individual letters (in Arabic) will combine in different ways. In Arabic, the letters will change depending upon where it falls in the word. When you tap & drag, the letter combinations will show up above the grid and I have learned a few unexpected letter combos (in Arabic) while doing this. I notice the app does this ( having the letter combo above the grid as you look for a word) for all the languages it contains so this is a nice feature. The Arabic font of the word list is tiny, even on my iPad. It could be that I’m older but it would be nice to be able to zoom in a bit. My work around is I take a snapshot of the app interface and use the picture in my photo folder to zoom in that way so I may figure the words out. The font used for German, Italian, English, Spanish, etc are perfectly fine, even on my iPhone, so it’s obviously an issue for a non-native reader such as myself but I thought I’d bring it up. The Arabic letters are not horizontal like you see in teaching textbooks but slant with letters somewhat on top of each other. I assume this is how most people native to the language read the words. I rather enjoy this as it increases the complexity of the app and is helping me learn more about the written language but may frustrate those learning the language. I don’t see a way to save my progress. That would be a nice option. It’s not a killer issue as I’m not obsessed with “winning” but to some I’m sure it would be a bother. I really like this app.
Review by bubblybabs on Word Search Brain Puzzle Game.