Thanks Peter! My solution so far is to use copy and paste to make a new card and delete the old (or, more frequently, retype the card to solidify memory).
Hi Francesco. I do not necessarily agree with all the research on memory, though I am certainly interested in the research. I do not know what people are trying to memorize, but I have always found cloze deletion and particularly mnemonic devices to be of no personal help in memorization. School experience has taught me that, when it comes certainly to the memorization of vocabulary, perhaps I'm an outlier. But, if there is no effort on my part to memorize, my recall is terrible (for example, trivial knowledge like the names of actors and actresses is extremely difficult). As for my use of the program, I can offer many more examples from German (where I am a beginner) than Spanish (where I am only adding more advanced vocabulary cards). In learning a language, you will often learn a number of prepositions. Some lessons later, you will find that particular cases (genitive, dative, accusative) govern an individual preposition. As these parts of speech are some of the most difficult for a reading knowledge, I've found it beneficial to go back and edit the card to make it clear that memorization requires an understanding of the case(s) triggered by the preposition. There are also "word families" in German. Say I come across "die Arbeitenlosigheit" (unemployment) and I didn't immediately recognize it. I will edit my "arbeiten" card to include that and any other members of the word family that strike me as worth writing at the time, even if they are fairly clear in context (and in my opinion not worth their own card): der Arbeitgeber, der Arbeitsnehmer, arbeitenlos, and die Arbeitenlosigheit...And if I cannot recall any word in this word family, I will mark it a "1". For me, a reading knowledge would require fairly immediate recognition of all words in the "word family" represented on the card. I have seen much advice on how to make cards on the SuperMemo site. I would encourage my method for any involved in an "accelerated" course where reading knowledge and not speaking/writing the language is one's objective. -- 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/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/1ea87edb-ae97-49f2-8457-a84a54693b97%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
