On 7 March 2013 16:15, Scott Youngman <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps I should explain my point. Making your own cards requires you to >> think about the content and design, and to focus on the information which >> is most relevant to what you want to learn. By writing the card you also >> begin to learn even before drilling it. Neither of those benefits comes >> with a card deck made by someone. >> >> I can think of at least two situations where a pre-made card deck is >> beneficial. One is for a set body of facts and you know you want to learn >> all of them, for example the countries of Europe. In that case, everything >> the deck's author has made is relevant to you. A second is from something >> like a textbook you are studying, for example vocabulary by chapter from a >> foreign language text. >> >> Although the idea is very widespread that creating your own cards is more beneficial, I'm not sure to what degree it is, nor how (or whether) this has been measured. I'd agree that for many situations with a set body of facts, it is much _easier_ for the student to progress since they don't have to spend so much time researching and creating the material. In my case, the effort of creating Chinese cards and struggling to minimise ambiguity and maximise accuracy was very tiresome and took up a very large portion of my study time.
Another situation where I think premade decks are helpful is in sentence mining where you work through a massive number of translated sentences in recognition mode. For example, there are Tatoeba collections with over 10,000 sentences pairs. Obviously you save a lot of time by not having to re-invent your own wheels here. (although speaking of sentence recognition, I just found this: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/10000-sentences-is-dead-long-live-mcds ). Oisín > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:55 AM, m.wunderli wrote: >> > collaborativ flashcard set are the only thing that is worth it. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/hfqlEhm6v1oJ. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
