The phrasebook

Ready phrases for the air and the pontoon: English text, translation, a Cyrillic transcription and voice. Works offline.

How it is built

The phrasebook: categories and search

“More → Phrases”, or the quick button on “Today”. Phrases are grouped by situation: calling a marina, port control, a bridge, fuel, anchoring, distress calls. The search understands both a word from the phrase and the situation — “marina”, “fuel”, “bridge”, “anchor”.

A phrase card

A dialogue: lines, transcription and voice

A category is not a list but a dialogue: lines in turn, each marked with who is speaking (you, the marina, the port, the bridge, the station). Every phrase has:

the English text and a translation;

a Cyrillic transcription — visible while the “Cyrillic transcription” setting is on;

Speak and Slowly — the phone’s voice reads the phrase out;

“If you did not understand the reply” — a fallback line such as “Say again slowly, please”.

“Play the whole dialogue” plays the lines in order — the rhythm is easier to remember that way.

Favourites

The phrases you need are starred and collected in a separate list: before a manoeuvre it is easier to open five of your own than to scroll through all of them.

Phrases and the voice files are downloaded as the “Phrasebook and voice” offline pack.

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