On 3 November 2011 17:39, George Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Often one simple picture or video clip, worth a million words, > disambiguates the possible meanings to attach to the (single) word. When > you are lucky the graphic is all you need as a prompt. > > George > Perhaps sometimes, but this can be difficult to scale up, and is cumbersome or impossible with abstract words or those that represent grammatical structures. I have almost 4,000 cards in my Chinese deck now, including sentences (recognition) and characters (production). When you're under a heavyish workload every day and the task at hand is going to take years, the quicker you can create new cards which are as simple and succinct and possible, the better. I did use graphics when teaching my daughter to read, but on the answer side. Kids love it, BTW! We'd get to the end of the scheduled words and she'd be like "can we do more now? Why didn't my Dora words come up?" :D Now I'm using images on the question side, for learning some Rubik's cube algorithms. Hoping that will turn out well... > > On 03/11/2011 09:59, Oisín wrote: > > On 3 November 2011 03:59, Lindsey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm learning Chinese. You have to memorize at least a couple thousand... >> > > Hi, > > I'm also learning Chinese and I struggle with this problem sometimes. > Murray's idea is interesting and probably better for learning, but I'd > probably find it difficult to gather all the required sentences..... > > > > ================= > > Murray James Morrison > > Saxophonist, Composer, Music Educator > > > > Tel. 780-791-4651 (Canada) > > +86-18608001531 (China) > >> > Email. [email protected] >> > Website:http://www.murrayjames.net >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
