Somali Medical Phrases

Somali medical terminology phrases for medical professionals and language learners. With Somali text and audio.

Using this app, you can select an English phrase and view its translation and how to pronounce it in the foreign language.

This app was originally developed as an entry to the 2010 CIO/G6 "Apps for the Army" competition, and it is based on the modules publicly available online from the U.S. Defense Language Institute. While this app's subject matter relates mainly to military topics, the app is broadly useful with content relating to a range of topics.

• Contains over 600 phrases with native speaker audio recordings

• Dictionary-style lookup: Type or say what you want to search

• Pronunciation help: See the transliterated/Romanized text

• Good for language learning, or as a reference

This app is part of a series of phrasebook apps published for many different languages and dialects. Phrasebooks in the series are available as "basic" and "medical" variants.

• Text may be exported as Anki flash cards

• Works offline: No network connection is required

• Search bar for quick vocabulary lookup

• No login or registration needed

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Many of the languages covered by this series of phrasebook apps are under-resourced, with translation apps and dictionaries not widely available from other sources.

Categories

Introduction

Guidance

Registration

Assessment

Surgical Consent

Trauma

Procedures

Foley (Catheter)

Surgery Instructions

Pain Interview

Medicine Interview

Orthopedic

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Pediatrics

Cardiology

Ophthalmology

Neurology

Exam Commands

Caregiver

Post-Op/Prognosis

Medical Conditions

Pharmaceutical

Diseases

How to use

1. Choose a subject category from the menu. That category will be expanded.

2. From the expanded list of phrases shown, tap on the phrase you want.

3. On the phrase detail page, the Somali phrase is shown alongside its pronunciation and the equivalent English phrase. Press the Play button to hear the audio pronunciation by a native speaker.

Ideal for

• U.S. Military service members

• Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals

• Travelers

• Aid workers

• Linguists

Languages and dialects available in this series

Albanian, Algerian, Amharic, Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Egyptian, Emirati, French, Gan (Jiangxinese), Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian, Hassaniya, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa), Iraqi, Japanese, Javanese, Jordanian, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean (North), Kosovar (Albanian), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lebanese, Libyan, Lingala, Malay, Mandarin, Mongolian, Moroccan, Nepali, Palestinian, Pashto (Afghanistan), Pashto (Pakistan), Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Punjabi, Quechua, Russian, Saudi, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali, Sorani, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Venezuela), Sudanese, Swahili, Syrian, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamashek, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tunisian, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Shanghainese, Yakan, Yemeni, Yoruba

Making flash cards: Launch app and choose "Flash cards" from the menu in the top corner, and follow the prompts.

Materials in this app are adapted from publications authored by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (www.dliflc.edu). This app is not affiliated with DLIFLC or any other government or military organization.