I am not satisfied with Anki it does not review for me many of new words that i added I don't know how to manage learning new words :(
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Pablo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > I think Anki and Mnemosyne are good free software alternatives. But > at this point in time I found Anki more evolved and friendly, e.g. it > supports pictures and sounds. Anki let you record your own voice, > although with a little of background noise. > > I was playing with both programs, e.g. exploring about import/export > options. That's very important, do it once, and share it! And > learning to incorporate lists of words/expressions, 'massively', and > how to include sounds in the same way. > > Well, the idea behind this is as follows: Ideally we could build a > multimedia Anki database, including: > > 1. Lists of words/expressions > 2. Pictures for each word or expressions if available > 3. Bilingual sounds > > Or at least the lists (item number 1), if there are no pictures/sound > available of you don't have much time. > > Ok, this activity can be time consuming if you want something 'good', > and you need to build your lists, or use some already-made lists, but > if they aren't free, you can't share them! :( I mean, just for private > use. > > I create a Spanish-English database with some 100 or so words and I > saw my wife interested, 'studying' them. It works! > > I wonder if some day we all together could build some free lists, e.g. > conditionals, or phrases with 'I wish', etc. We could made them up! > > Regards, > > Pablo > > > On May 3, 10:47 pm, Eduardo Costa <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > -- "When you know what you want,and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it." "Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". 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