A simple way to improve effectiveness
A flashcard application for learning foreign language vocabulary.
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#2 A simple way to improve effectiveness
Hi,
maybe you already thought of that and you decided not to implement it, but I've studied a bit language teaching, and you know, I believe a very important feature toMOTko is lacking now is the chance for the user (=the student) of actually writing him/herself the correct answer for the current card. You might add such test modality, it would be very easy to code, and would improve greatly the effectiveness of the software.
I think you can do that adding an operator in the Actions -> Preferences -> Quiz -> + part, in which you can choose whether just push the box in the quiz window normally as you would do now, affecting the sequence only, or first push a "?" botton, then the box, resulting in the revealing sequence in something like ?(a) meaning the software will actually ask you to input the correct answer. Or anyway a similar solution...
Advantages of such solution: more types of memory would be involved in the process of learning, resulting in a faster grasp of the words, as well as a more conscious/proper use of vocabulary in real-world situations.
Can't wait version 0.12.X with the SuperMemo-2 algorithm!! ;)
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, nothing prevents you from writing the answer on paper :-) That's what I was doing when learning Japanese. Especially useful for memorizing kanjis.
Anyway, I don't dismiss your proposition. It's just that I don't have much free time lately and I don't expect things to change anytime soon :-( That's too bad because v0.12 is almost complete (on the Zaurus version in fact). Well, it works but there are still some bugs to fix and some polish to apply.
By curiosity, could you tell me on what platform are you using toMOTko?