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| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 8 06 April 2005 at 11:02pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but iTunes, the iPod and probably other programs and devices have a function that allows you to apply a rating to songs. This function is intended to allow you to indicate how much you like or dislike any particular song to the program. Then you can create "smart playlists" that include songs based on how much you like them, when you last listened to them, and a host of other variables. So every time you listen to the playlist it changes based on those variables.
How cool would it be to have all your vocabulary on individual tracks? You could create a smart playlist to play vocabulary based on how well you remembered it last time, and when was the last time you heard it. SuperMemo for the iPod!?! Edited by heartburn on 06 April 2005 at 11:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| manna Groupie Kyrgyzstan Joined 7257 days ago 94 posts - 112 votes | Message 2 of 8 07 April 2005 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
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I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist yet. However, given the popularity of the iPod, you might suggest that to SuperMemo themselves...
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| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7246 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 3 of 8 07 April 2005 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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Yes that would be very cool. You could periodically review your vocabulary word list and rank words as to how well you know them. Here's where grouping your words would save a lot of time.
Ranking music is a great idea but I've only seen it on the iPod. However, I believe you could simulate the same thing on other players by adding multiple entries for each song. It would be easier if you could automate the process somehow like with a macro. Then you could listen to the play list randomly and periodically remove entries for each word or group until you're left with only one. Re SuperMemo on the iPod: I've toyed with the idea of writing a program for one of the sound enabled PDAs. But the more I think about it the more it seems like the initial learning on your MP3 player and then some sort of scheduled review (through SuperMemo or whatever) on a desktop PC would be just as good. Unfortunately, the OSes for these MP3 players seem to be closed and there don't seem to be any development kits available. I have a Nomad Zen Xtra and Creative offers an SDK but it's just for accessing the player from the PC. There are also Linux SDKs for the same thing in development. These could be used to automatically create and load play lists for new vocabulary or for review. But since you have an iPod, you may want to check out iPod Linux. Maybe you really can write your own SuperMemo for the iPod! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 8 07 April 2005 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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No manna. You don't understand. I wasn't suggesting that this was actually a real product. I was just trying to get your attention.
What I meant was that you can create a very simplified "SuperMemo-Like" smart playlist. It is something you can do right now. Unfortunately Apple has not yet released an SDK for the iPod. So 3rd party applications aren't really possible. Not yet, anyway. Edited by heartburn on 07 April 2005 at 10:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 8 07 April 2005 at 10:29am | IP Logged |
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I've thought about iPod Linux, but I'm scared :)
Another idea I had was a Java program to manipulate the iTunes library. It could have a flashcard interface and reorder your playlists based on the results of tests. The iTunes library file is xml. I imagine most other desktop players are similar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| egg_uk Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6417 days ago 203 posts - 204 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 8 29 May 2007 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
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just found this old thread, 2 years old. think it should be more possible now.
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| zigzag Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6562 days ago 50 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 8 29 May 2007 at 8:29am | IP Logged |
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I don't think it is possible to do a graded recall.
But I found a few days ago Clip2Go which transforms your ipod into a speaking dictionary. Maybe a good idea. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| virgule Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6839 days ago 242 posts - 261 votes Studies: Korean | Message 8 of 8 30 May 2007 at 7:34am | IP Logged |
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Transparent have been advertising iPod use for a while... BYKI. It costs money, and I have no idea if/how you can add more vocabulary... Also, at first glance it appears that all you get is the audio in MP3 format... a bit like Vocabulearn then? Edited by virgule on 30 May 2007 at 7:36am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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