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| Mysteryfaith Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5039 days ago 14 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 1 of 9 02 February 2011 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, hallo, bonjour and... well, I don't know how to do Russian letters, so. :(
I am a big supporter of flashcards - I constantly make them or plann to make them and take them with me to pick up and look at during school breaks, the walk home and other random times. But I think you'll all agree that using just one technique can get a little repetitive - and I don't know how much paper I'm wasting by printing out all these simple terms that I may only need to look at once before I can recite them on my own. So, what techniques to learn can I use on the go other than flashcards? Preferably something I can take in my pocket with me, or that will be an easy enough technique to use. Thanks, danke, merci! :) ~Myst (P.S. I know that the best option would be to 'just learn them', but when it comes to the Russian alphabet, my brain turns to mush: all I think is, "oooh, it's a backwards R, lol!" rather than what I SHOULD think: "oh, that's pronounced so-and-so..." Hopefully some new techniques will help me get to grips with all this new information. :D) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6574 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 9 02 February 2011 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Look up Spaced Repetition Software. You can have it in your phone. It's like Flashcards: the Next Generation. Not only will it save you time in printing, it takes care of your review schedule, maybe reducing the repetitiveness. Also, if it's in your phone it's a lot easier to take with you.
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| Mysteryfaith Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5039 days ago 14 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 3 of 9 02 February 2011 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, Ari! :) That software looks really good. I'm off to investigate. >D
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6003 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 9 02 February 2011 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I prefer Gradint to general SRS. Generate a pile of MP3s on your home computer and shove them on an MP3 player. No smartphone required, and when you're out and about, it's pretty much hands free operation.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5122 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 9 02 February 2011 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Interesting program. Had not heard of it before. Only thing is the computer-generated voice. While the little bit of testing I've done with it on a Linux PC works fine, the voice drives me nuts. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5038 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 9 02 February 2011 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Flashcards Deluxe on my iPhone and recommend it highly: http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/Default.aspx Edited by Arthaey on 02 February 2011 at 6:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 9 02 February 2011 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Potentially interesting programme. First I heard of it. Could you give us a bit more information, seeing as the website is extremely succinct? Edited by Arekkusu on 02 February 2011 at 8:04pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6003 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 8 of 9 03 February 2011 at 11:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Basically, you collect a series of sound clips in your native language and your native target language and then it produces lessons with revision of material following something like Paul Pimsleur's original proposed Graduate Interval Recall schedule (which is slightly different from what was used in the Simon and Schuster courses, so I'm told).
If you can't get clips, it has voice synthesis available for several languages, but it's a bit rubbish. It introduces each phrase on first use by telling you it and getting you to repeat. On subsequent revisions, you're expected to recall it from the native language prompt, then repeat the correct version. All the pauses are calculated by the software (they're too long during the first few lessons, but they soon sort themselves out). The basic prompts (how do you say...? etc) come preprogrammed in the synthesised voice, but you can record your own version if you prefer. The program was written by a visually-impaired computer programmer because he couldn't find any decent material for people who can't use books. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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