All great tool! It´s nice because we can use it for many things and not only to study english. It´s looks a excellent tool for kids to learn forms, numbers, to write and so forth.
José Daniel Parley looks also nice, the open source and free community always make great job. Plabo, did you already use anki and mnemosyne ? what did you like more ? take care ed. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:05 AM, José Daniel <[email protected]>wrote: > > I haven't tried any of the others programs (neither anki, nor > mnemosyne) but it seems that they are used to memorize. > > I'm so happy with Parley because it is so simple and powerful and when > you want you test yourself. You can use simple words or idioms or > phrases or fonetic transcription. > > Now when i find a word or an idiom (by the way, like those i find in > your great blog)i write down in the program to make a lesson (your > lesson can have all the entries you want) and from time to time i test > myself (i like so much multiple choice, but you can choose several > options to test yourself like writting the entire word, or find a word > in mixed letters) > > And the good thing we can share our lessons we do !!! > > -- > Best regards > > On May 2, 6:39 pm, Pablo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi José, > > > > It seems Parley is a Linux-only tool :( Some days ago I wrote about > > tools like Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) and Mnemosyne ( > http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/). Have you used it? If so, could you > please > > make a comparison for us? > > > > By the way, for the benefit of others, something important: don't > > focus around single words, instead focus on phrases. Learning single > > words doesn't help much if we don't know how to use words, I mean we > > need a context. We can get examples of phrases from 'modern' > > dictionaries or from linguistic corpus like the ones available from > > this page: > > > > http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/ > > > > or simply, searching in sources such ashttp://blogsearch.google.com/ > > orhttp://news.google.com/, etc. > > > > Regards, > > > > Pablo > > > > On 2 mayo, 06:05, José Daniel Martínez <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > I would like to introduce you a great tool to learn a language. It's > called > > > Parley and it comes with GNU/Linux distributions (I'm using it with > Fedora) > > > but I suppose you can find it with any distribution. > > > > > Parley allows you to write in columns (1st Language, 2nd Language, > idioms, > > > pronunciations...) words and idioms. The good thing is that after you > have > > > written some words you can test yourself in several ways: multiple > choices, > > > written and the program can track of your progress. > > > > > Some snapshots (I'm Spanish so the translations are in Spanish) > > > > > 1) Building your lesson: > > > 2) Testing yourself (multiple choices) > > > > > Another reason to choice GNU/Linux!! > > > > > Regards > > > > > parley1.jpg > > > 154 KVerDescargar > > > > > parley.jpg > > > 56 KVerDescargar > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
