5 applications to silence your brother-in-law at Christmas

It's inevitable: the Christmas holidays arrive and family reunions take place day after day. There are families whose members get along well. Especially if there are few members. The problem comes with the massive congregations on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. Discussions tend to reach a high temperature, especially in thorny issues about politics or religion And when it comes to Christmas discussions, the character of the brother-in-law takes the cake as soon as to prominence.A leading role sometimes unwanted, which can drive the most patient of mortals out of their boxes.

In tuexperto we know very well to what extent the figure of the 'cuñao' at Christmas can be annoying. The 'cuñao', of course, does not have to be your sister's husband. Not even your girlfriend's brother. It will be any familiar figure (political or not) who thinks he knows everything, and whose arguments are usually based on clichés and set phrases 'I know a mechanic who can fix it for you for less', 'From Madrid to Seville by motorway I take less time than you', 'A child could paint that'… These are some of his favorite phrases and arguments.

And as we know it well, we have prepared a Christmas special for you to shut up your brother-in-law at Christmas. And if you think that there is no brother-in-law in your family... Be careful. Maybe the brother-in-law is you.

Mobile Wikipedia

The mother of all Internet encyclopedias. A collaborative space in which knowledge comes from the average user. This is in charge of editing, modifying and supervising all the entries that have a place within the encyclopedia. Although it is true that jokers sometimes sneak in, Wikipedia is the closest thing we have today to the heavy encyclopedias that adorned the living rooms of apartments during the 80s and 90s.

The Wikipedia application is one of those utilities that must be downloaded on any self-respecting smartphone. Avoiding being just another consultation application, with Mobile Wikipedia we can follow web trends day by day, highlighting the most interesting things happening in the world and linking with its entry on Wikipedia. For example, on October 21, 2017, pop icon and serial murder ideologist Charles Manson passed away.Opening the app today, we found your Wikipedia and related entry (for example, we found Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson clan).

In addition, we can create reading lists to consult articles offline, apply dark theme to read at night, consult article history visited and see what articles on Wikipedia there are in relation to the site you are on. Very useful for when you travel and want to know more about the monuments that surround you.

Download Wikipedia Mobile for free now in the Play Store.

Fundéu

The Urgent Spanish Foundation (Fundéu) is a non-profit institution created by Banco BBVA to promote the proper use of the Spanish language. On a daily basis, through their website, they publish tips and recommendations about our language, in addition to responding to the queries that arrive daily from their Twitter account.

Your Android application is a good adaptation of what we find on the website. Every day, the Fundéu publishes an article with advice, recommendations, common mistakes and curiosities of our mother tongue. Foreign words that we use in the kitchen and that we can substitute for Spanish words, how to correctly write 'Jehovah's witness' or the appearance of new terms such as 'Pornovenganza'.

A very simple and very basic application (we can simply activate and deactivate notifications, and uncheck and mark the issues we want to be informed of) in which we miss some online consultation section.

A more cultured day

As its name indicates, with this free Android application you can be one more cultured day, every day of the year.Its interface through cards is very practical and useful for reading. It is divided into two sections: Fun fact and Categories. It seems easy to use, but you have to be careful because there is much more material than it seems a priori. If we click on one of the 'Fun facts' it will open in a large size and we can read the corresponding article. But we will not only have that one: by sliding the screen we will have a whole gallery with many more articles.

Taking this small detail into account, 'A more cultured day' is a very useful application for those moments of leisure in which we don't want to 'waste time' playing mobile video games either. A well-designed app that is a pleasure to read and with which you will learn something new every day And, who knows, if you can also keep your brother-in-law quiet.

Download A More Cult Day, free, on the Play Store.

Quizlet

A game of questions and answers with which you can learn a lot of subjects. You need an account to be able to use the app, so you can track your progress much more comfortably. Among the categories we find Geography, Biology, and Languages. Although they are not all the units that we can find: in the magnifying glass we can write what we want to learn and thus find the syllabus that has been created for the corresponding topic.

Download Quizlet for free on the Play Store.

RAE

You could not miss the official application of the Royal Spanish Academy in our selection of applications to silence your brother-in-law. With this application you will learn a new word every day. In addition, it will help you with any questions about how to write a particular word The application is completely free, but if you want to purchase the dictionary completely offline you will have to pay a price only 10 euro.