Those seem like great apps! Duolinguo, which is free, is very highly recommended by teachers of Italian. The only app I'd question is "Medinaction," which promises to send a qualified doctor to your hotel if you get sick, like a house call. You pay through the nose on that.

By law, all emergency medical treatments in Italian hospitals are free. If you go to the ER because you are having a heart attack and they do emergency cardiac surgery, and you are in the intensive care unit for a month, and in the hospital for two months, it is free, regardless of where you are from. You might have a 20-30 euro co-pay, and that's it.

If someone doesn't want to go to the ER and is willing to pay the 150 euro fee, that's a personal choice. But if you are sick, they are going to send you to the ER because there is nothing they can do for you in a hotel room that a trip to the pharmacy can't do. Pharmacists have a lot more scope than in the USA.

Thank you, I downloaded more than a few of them.