Language Learning on the Boox Note Air 2 Plus

Part of a series of articles explaining what I do on e-ink.

According to Duolingo, I have been learning Welsh for over 1,400 days. After making slow and steady progress (emphasis on slow), I enrolled onto a Welsh class earlier this year. The classes are a highlight of my week. Language learning is all about immersion and flow, but sometimes this is easier said than done when you have so many resources to use: apps, videos, audio drills, coursebook PDFs, short works of fiction, and the copious (and messy) notes that we take along the way. One of the reasons I purchased the Boox Note Air 2 Plus was to help me organise some of this material more effectively, while avoiding gawping into another LCD screen (I get enough of the latter at work). I’m not a particularly good language learner (my school reports for French make for humourous reading), so please take what follows with a rather large pinch of salt.

The Boox range of e-ink devices run Android 11. This means apps. Lots of them. I downloaded Dropbox, where I have all of my course materials and then downloaded Duolingo, Kindle and Borrowbox (an app used by my local library). All of these apps gave me access to material I had already been using before purchasing the Note Air 2 Plus. As you’d expect from an e-ink device, reading books in any language is a joy (the fact I can get them from almost any source, and not be locked into only using Kindle books is a bonus!) Duolingo works surprisingly well. The Boox Note Air 2…