Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 1 of 2 13 September 2012 at 12:50am | IP Logged |
Oh my, I'm so relieved. I've realized I don't hate exercises at all - I hate the boring sentences in them! So I realized I basically need to make my own exercises somehow - does anyone do that? Cloze deletion comes closest, of course... I also remember seeing a site with *word games* where you can paste any text and it'll randomize the words, so that you have to put them back in order. probably useful for languages with a complicated word order :) Can't find the link unfortunately.
Ideally, it would be great to automatically remove some "little words" and/or endings. But does anyone know ANY tools for custom exercises?
Or also, any courses with funny/weird/crazy exercises? Even in Assimil they are usually boring although the dialogues/texts are great.
edit: oh I'm sleepy. came here from the Madrigal method thread and thought I was posting this into the methods subforum. Sorry. Fits here too though - I don't mind whether you move the thread or not.
Edited by Serpent on 13 September 2012 at 12:54am
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2 of 2 17 September 2012 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
Oh yay! It actually exists!!!
Some more tools for teachers there too. OMG so many options. Especially fantastic for where you can list the possibilities, such as with genders.
Warning: if you generate randomly, don't list 1 as minimal length. it'll mostly pick spaces XDDD
Think I'll use the interactive option and start with showing nothing and then try other ways for words i can't guess (no vowels or anagrams for example). The "interactive exercise" option allows you to type and check your answers.
Edited by Serpent on 17 September 2012 at 2:13am
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