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This crowdsourced phrasebook app wants to help South Africans understand each other
South Africa, like our ever globalising world, is made up of a really diverse bunch. It’s colourful but often messy. This is where Aweza steps in. It’s a novel app that wants to help people better communicate and understand each other.
Developed in Cape Town, Aweza is a phrasebook app which essentially pairs pictures with common phrases. It relies on crowdsourcing and gamification techniques to ensure correct pronunciations of South Africa’s 11 languages. Pretty cool, right?
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