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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7005 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 45 03 June 2011 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
Here's to the cavemen like me. Ug! 11 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6262 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 10 of 45 06 June 2011 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I must be one too. I prefer paper cards/index cards, small notebooks etc. Apart from anything else, I can study anywhere with them, even while walking in the countryside or sitting on a park bench. I can't take a computer everywhere. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5420 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 11 of 45 06 June 2011 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
I tried Anki and decided it was too much work when I could get the same results with pen and pieces of paper. I like actual physical cards that I carry around with me and write on easily. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6001 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 12 of 45 06 June 2011 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I like Anki because it's a quick and easy way to build custom material for my students.
There's many things I'd change about it, so maybe I'll write my own flashcard software in the next month or two.... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jean-luc Senior Member France Joined 4950 days ago 100 posts - 150 votes Speaks: French* Studies: German | Message 13 of 45 07 June 2011 at 10:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Anki is a free software (GPL 3) written in a relatively easy programming language (Python). Why don't you try to write plugins or even to be part of its development instead of developing a brand new soft ?
You can also give feedbacks or ask for feature here : http://anki.uservoice.com/forums/63835-general And let the developer do the work :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6572 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 14 of 45 07 June 2011 at 11:15am | IP Logged | |||||
Only cavemen use Anki on the computer. Put it in a smartphone and step into the 21st century! 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6262 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 15 of 45 07 June 2011 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't have a smartphone and in many respects I preferred the 20th century anyway.
I use the Internet and a PC, but otherwise my language-learning is low-tech and low-cost. I am fascinated by how people learned languages prior to the Internet, and even prior to having recordings of languages available. The fact is that languages were learned (sometimes even under dreadful circumstances, like in concentration camps). 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 16 of 45 18 June 2011 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I used a DOS (remember DOS?) flashcard programme for Biblical Greek, called memcards. When I was learning German, I put about 1500 German words into the programme.
It was brilliant because I could make sets based on the text I was studying, and it sorted words by "not learned, short term and long term". It even separated them like this within a set, which was very useful. I have tried a couple more recent flashcard programmes, and none of them seemed to do this. Does Anki have a system for sorting by how well you know a card? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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