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Lists vs Flashcards
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Poll Question: Which is more effective:
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Lists	13	[44.83%]
Flashcards	16	[55.17%]
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s_allard
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Message 33 of 34

16 September 2012 at 7:03am | IP Logged

I'm a great fan of physical flashcards because I can make notes on them. I always work with entire sentences. I believe that learning individual words is a waste of time. I've done some Anki but I decided that despite the cumbersome format good old-fashioned paper flashcards can do the job. I also use a notebook with a few hundred entries and all sorts of scribbles. Maybe it qualifies as a wordlist. When I have a bit of time I simply read through the book to remind myself of certain things.
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montmorency
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Message 34 of 34

16 September 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged

s_allard wrote:

I'm a great fan of physical flashcards because I can make notes on
them. I always work with entire sentences. I believe that learning individual words is
a waste of time. I've done some Anki but I decided that despite the cumbersome format
good old-fashioned paper flashcards can do the job. I also use a notebook with a few
hundred entries and all sorts of scribbles. Maybe it qualifies as a wordlist. When I
have a bit of time I simply read through the book to remind myself of certain things.

While I think that both words and sentences can be useful (and phrases which are not
complete sentences), why, as a matter of interest, do you think that learning
individual words is a waste of time?

Edited by montmorency on 16 September 2012 at 4:25pm
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