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| Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6539 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 16 01 November 2009 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Does the this software allow the user to have each prompt set on random(a prompt could be "Do you have x") so as
to not have "Do you have shekels" followed by "Do you have dollars"? Each prompt could have an array(or whatever you programmers call it) of 20-30 variations. I really need to get my programming and multimedia skillz on so I can try this myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6260 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 10 of 16 01 November 2009 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Because the default is that there are 5 new words only in every lesson, there are (unfortunately) gaps of silence in the first lesson because there aren't any old ones, but thankfully it's only a small problem because only lesson 1 is affected; if a user can be persuaded to bear with it for a while, it will get better later. To see what kind of thing it is doing, have a look at the technical graph on the web page. Look at it full screen if possible. It shows 5 new words with lots of older words in between. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6260 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 11 of 16 01 November 2009 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
You can use as much prompts as you can. There is no limit. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 12 of 16 02 November 2009 at 3:28am | IP Logged | |||||
I feel the software should set the time to match the material -- if there isn't enough material, it should ignore the requested lesson time and make it shorter. It's not like I'd be doing any less work that way. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6539 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 16 02 November 2009 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
What I meant is having a variable prompt inside of a prompt so as to increase the variety of vocab. "I have dollars" and "I have shekels" is really the same prompt. Changing one word isn't really helping the learner when it comes to learning the languages's structure. For example, here are 5 prompts: How do you say "I've driven to Berlin" Ich bin nach Berlin gefahren =>Variables would be location and subject How do you say "I've driven the auto to Berlin Ich habe das Auto nach Berlin gefahren =>Variables would be subject, direct object and location How do you say "I gave the aunt to the communist" Ich gab dem Kommunisten die Tante =>Variables would be subject and the other objects How do you say "I live in Berlin" Ich wohne in Berlin =>Variables would be subject and location...maybe throw in time How do you say "He died in Berlin (using conversation past)" Er ist in Berlin gestorben =>Variables would be subject and place Just changing the location, the direct object, and the indirect object shouldn't warrant a new prompt, but the learner should be exposed to a variety of locations and objects to increase the vocab. Not to mention that some objects do a good job in explaining the case system. Edited by Kugel on 02 November 2009 at 7:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hoopskidoodle Senior Member United States Joined 5501 days ago 55 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 16 03 November 2009 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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This looks interesting.
Too bad I already manually converted most of the Pimsleur French Course series to Anki flashcards w/ audio (ripped from the Pimsleur CDs) Edited by Hoopskidoodle on 03 November 2009 at 6:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6260 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 15 of 16 03 November 2009 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why too bad? this is good news, now you can easily put them in Gradint. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hoopskidoodle Senior Member United States Joined 5501 days ago 55 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 16 of 16 04 November 2009 at 3:18am | IP Logged | |||||
Upon further perusal of the Gradint page, I suppose that this could be useful as a supplement to Anki, for use during those ever so brief moments when I have access to neither a computer nor my iPhone. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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