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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 1 of 7 01 November 2008 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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In which SRS programmes you have to actually type in the words (that are then verified by computer) and not to choose how well you know them? Right now I'm using a programme like that but its editor isn't very handy, so I wouldn't mind switching to something else... I would appreciate all your advice.
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6258 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 2 of 7 02 November 2008 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||
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There is a SRS program where you have to type in the words then it verified by the program. Also it can give you hints if you want, if you made a mistake in spelling for example. It is called VTrain. You can download it from this link: http://viewdownload.blogspot.com/2007/12/vtrain-52107.html or http://rapidshare.com/files/79541549/VTrain_v5.2.107.rar 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7246 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 3 of 7 02 November 2008 at 7:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Pauker has a nice text-entry mode. It's free and is written in Java so it runs on any major platform.
BYKI has a nice text-entry mode. It appears to be an SRS these days, but I haven't tried it. It's commercial but there used to be a lite version. It runs on Windows, Palm. and PocketPC. Teach2000 is not an SRS but it's a very nice flashcard program and has a text-entry mode. It runs on Windows. SuperMemo has a text-entry mode, but I didn't like it because it was not case sensitive. It's commercial and runs on Windows. [EDIT] Removed misinformation about FullRecall Edited by pentatonic on 03 November 2008 at 11:48am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| virgule Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6839 days ago 242 posts - 261 votes Studies: Korean | Message 4 of 7 03 November 2008 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's another thing to consider: typos. In Pauker, if you enter a word wrongly, you get to choose whether it was correct or not; so you'll have to be honest to yourself if it was a typo or a mistake. In Byki you can make the program remember alternative answers permanently; however, although the Deluxe version now does repeat words that you haven't encountered for a while, the repetition does not require you to type it. One very nice feature of Byki Deluxe, though, is that if you mistake a word, it tests the other one. For example, it asks "apple" and you enter "Birne", Byki will next test you "pear"... to make sure you don't associate word pairs wrongly.
Out of curiosity, does FullRecall stop you when you're still typing the answer? I wouldn't want this... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7246 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 5 of 7 03 November 2008 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||
I like the way Pauker does it because you don't have to penalize yourself for some silly typo, but you're right that being able to have alternate answers is a powerful feature. I don't think the version of BYKI I used allowed me to mark an answer as correct when I had typed it wrong without also marking it as an alternate answer. Teach2000 is nice in this regard as it combines the best of both these approaches. FullRecall used to stop you at the first incorrect character until you got it right, but I just downloaded the latest and it doesn't appear that you can type at all now. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| interblob Newbie United States Joined 5441 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes | Message 6 of 7 31 December 2009 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
another flashcard program, that has 'fill-in-the-blank' functionality, is Winflash Educator (openwindow.com). Not sure if it has a Supermemo-like SRS algorithm, but it definitely has a Leitner mode with up to nine boxes. The downsides of Winflash Educator are that it's not freeware and that it is Windows only (as the name already implies). Hope this helps. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nadam Newbie Hungary memodrops.com Joined 5453 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 7 of 7 01 January 2010 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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memodrops ( http://memodrops.com ) is such a software. Not only you have to type in the solution in question-answer popups, but it generates crossword puzzles for you, where you can type in lots of words in one puzzle. (This is a faster way of learning; at least for me.) I don't want to write more about the program here, as I've created its own topic. Edited by nadam on 01 January 2010 at 4:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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