USER GUIDE
Introduction
German 4K is an educational tool allowing you to test yourself against a database of over 4,000 German translations, including nouns, adjectives and verbs.
German 4K allows you to select your test criteria across a range of 12 subjects, including the 3,000 most common German words.
German 4K also lets you select the number of questions you wish to be tested on and the direction of translation, i.e., English to German or vice-versa.
I hope you enjoy using German 4K. If you have any questions or comments, you can email me me directly from the INFO button on the app’s home page by selecting Help/Feedback.
HOME SCREEN
The Home screen has 3 sections:
No. of Questions
You can choose between 3 options, 10, 20 or 30 questions to be tested on.
Subjects
Here there are 12 options, these represent the type of vocabulary that you will be tested on. The subjects available are: Animals, Food, Top3000(the 3,000 most common German words), Clothing, 100 Verbs, Body, Family, House, Jobs, Numbers, Personality and Time.
Direction of Translation
Here you are presented with 2 options:
English to German
German to English.
If you select English to German, then you will be presented with an English word and given 6 German words from which to select the correct translation. It will, of course, be the opposite way round if you select German to English.
Note, each time you return to the Home screen the following choices are pre-selected: 10 questions, Animals and English to German.
Once you are happy with your selections, you can press the START button to begin the quiz.
QUIZ SCREEN
At the very top of the quiz/test screen will be the word you are being tested on. This will be either an English or German word depending on the direction of translation chosen in the home screen.
Below the image, indicating your chosen subject, will be 6 words, one of which will be the correct translation of the word at the top of the screen. Press whichever word you believe to be the correct answer.
As soon as you have made your selection, you will receive feedback:
If you are correct, then the chosen answer will turn green, the image will change to a large tick and the word you were tested on changes to “Correct”.
If you are wrong, the chosen answer will turn red, the image will change to a large X and the correct answer will appear at the top of the screen.
When you are ready to move to the next question, press the NEXT button.
Please note, the next button will disabled until you have attempted the current question.
Once you have completed the number of questions selected on the home screen, then you will automatically be moved to the Score screen.
SCORE SCREEN
The score screen gives you feedback on your quiz results.
You will see a score out of the chosen number of questions and a few words of motivation.
Finally, you will have 2 choices as to how to proceed:
Press the Home button and you will be taken back to the home screen to remake your selections.
Press the Retry button and you will be taken back to the quiz screen to re-attempt the test based upon your original selections.
INFO SCREEN
The Info screen can be accessed from the Home screen by pressing the small Info button in the top left of the screen. This will present a table listing the following:
Current app version
A link to our privacy policy
A link to this user guide
An easy way to mail me, if you have any questions or comments.