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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5772 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 17 of 23 28 December 2009 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Agree with all the others, super thread, Zenmonkey.
I really love mindmaps. I read a book on them once and I seem to remember that drawing them by hand is supposed to be part of what makes you remember the words. That said the "Water" map was awesome! DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GOOD MINDMAPPING SOFTWARE? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5701 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 18 of 23 28 December 2009 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think you can use www.mindmapper.com.
But drawing and learning: words ? I have just seen an exhibition on the Chinese Orchid Pavillion and have been exploring this combination of drawing and writing...But where could I find more information ? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6486 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 19 of 23 04 May 2011 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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As far as software goes, I've played around with
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| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5701 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 20 of 23 04 May 2011 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know whether it is useful, but there is of course visualthesaurus.com...
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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6486 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 21 of 23 18 February 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
... and another example from my daughter.
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| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5701 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 22 of 23 19 February 2012 at 9:54am | IP Logged | ||
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You know, I like it, and find the prefixes very important (and very well explained !), find surveys very interesting, but is the mindmapping so interesting???
I'd rather represent the meanings visually by for example breaking up 'zer', by stretching the 'ver' in order to suggest perfective aspects. I remember making walking sticks of the l's in the Finnish kavella , which helps me to remember it is walking. I do believe in lists, or no surveys, but I want them to have another structure than an alphabetic one, in some mnemotechnical form. Could you convince me of the usefulness of mindmapping in the above case ? (I might be too shortsighted...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6486 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 23 of 23 19 February 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
You can add any image or move them around however you like, that is the nice thing about mind mapping -- it isn't in a box - you move it around as you see it. The reason the example above of German Prefixes is in alpha-order in this map is that we both (my daughter and I) use it as a reference list - so looking up the seperable/inseperable by alphabetical order works for us. We could have mapped it differently. Colors help us group by type. you could map - horse. cheval. chevalier, kavella if that works for you. Mind mapping is just creating the visual associations that work for you. And if it does not work for you, well, I'm not selling software. :) This just barely touches the use of mind-mapping. There are several youtube video of people using it for language learning Here is another example: 
For case-pronouns, in Arabic I've gone back to a table because that works for me. You can see that in another thread, here. Edited by zenmonkey on 19 February 2012 at 3:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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