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| construct Newbie United States Joined 5439 days ago 36 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 6 30 July 2011 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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This may have been asked before, but I was curious, for those of you who use flashcards, which member from each
word family do you put on your flashcard? I generally try to put the verb if its convenient to do so, because I consider the verbs to be the engines of a language and that way I don't have to bother with gender. But I am certainly open to being persuaded to switch to nouns, or even adjectives, if anyone has good reasons for doing so. If it makes any difference the languages I study are Spanish, French and German. Edited by construct on 30 July 2011 at 12:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The Stephen Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4987 days ago 65 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Czech, Hungarian | Message 2 of 6 30 July 2011 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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I don't understand what you mean by "word family". Would that be a set of words from the same root word, like (in German) üblich (adj), Übung (noun) and üben (verb)?
In any case, my general opinion on flashcards (well, not just with flashcards) is to directly attack what you find hard or inconvenient, not avoid it. If you don't want to "bother with gender", then work on a bunch of nouns, so you learn their gender. That way their gender won't be a bother anymore :) (not trying to be a smartass by the way). I'm guilty of being rather lax with noun genders too, but I'm paying for it now with the uncertainty and lack of confidence in speaking, which is more annoying than learning the gender in the first place. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6844 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 6 30 July 2011 at 11:41am | IP Logged |
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Actually I think the original poster just puts one word class on the flash cards - in this case, verbs. If this means that he has knowledge of every other word, then fine. If not, he'd better add more words (provided that he wants to review them).
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| oldearth Groupie United States Joined 4830 days ago 72 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 4 of 6 30 July 2011 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
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The American school I attended taught that the broad categories such as noun/adverb/adjective/verb are called
the parts of speech. Personally, I always include this information on my cards because the definition of a word often changes depending on how it is used. If I didn't do this, I think having the back of a single card carry a large number of different definitions for different use cases would not be efficient for studying. The less information per card, the better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5163 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 5 of 6 01 August 2011 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
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Use all three. That way they'll reinforce each other. I.e., "What's the adjective meaning gluttonous? Well, I knew the verb for to eat a lot is Eatalotar. The adjective might be... eatalotado. Look at that, so it is."
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| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6844 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 03 August 2011 at 10:58am | IP Logged |
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Original poster, where are you?
I still think the main issue was which "part of speech"/"word class" to add to a card - not necessarily out of a group of related words, but rather in general. To me, the first post definitely looked like: "What kind of flashcards do you add? I only add verbs. Would I benefit from adding nouns instead?" If one decides to use flashcards (especially a software, like Anki), I think one should add just about everything one wants to review, nouns, adjectives, verbs, irregular plurals, phrases etc. and definitely to the same deck. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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