Flashcard/Slideshow app?

I have an original iPhone. I've been looking for an app to do something fairly simple, which is to make flash cards for learning a language. For example, first card says "gracias," (in pretty large letters), then you flick your finger to go to the answer, "thank you." You would need the ability to go into the mode to create the cards, perhaps change font, font size.
However, in my case I want to learn Thai, so it would need to handle a Thai font. (Of course there could be more features, but this is the basic requirement.)
In a different vein, I've heard the iPhone 3G (with the newer firmware), can now handle PowerPoint slideshows. Perhaps if I got the newer firmware (and/or new iPhone), I could at least make the flashcards as PowerPoint slides on my Mac, then view that file on the iPhone?
Any ideas/tips would be appreciated.
Also, can someone recommend someone to talk to about developing this kind of app?
Thanks much,
DP

The fact that Thai's "direction" is "both" (vowels may be before, after, above, or below consonants), it requires right-to-left text direction installed in the Mac. I think this poses an additional difficulty to getting input and display entirely correct on the iPhone.
While it can be hard to get totally correct placement of Thai vowels and tone marks, right-to-left text direction (as needed for Arabic/Hebrew) is not a requirement. Thai vowels happen to be typed in visual rather than logical order, and even if they were not (as is the case in Hindi for example) the system would not need to use RTL to display them correctly.
Thai should be easier to put on the iPhone in some kind of acceptable fashion than Arabic or Hindi I think.

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Example: http://www.gpmalone.com/ (my portfolio)
Software homepage: http://imagevuex.com/
The website doesn't show a trial offer, but if you contact them and ask nicely they'll oblige.

Try this:
http://www.tutoriallounge.com/2009/08/15-stunning-adobe-flash-xml-slideshow-tutorials/

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Hey 02_drummersteve_02. I didnt know how to directly message you, so Im asking here. Did you find a solution for the interference you were talking about on this topis?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2189000?start=0&tstart=0
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