Just one thing which can serve as a bridge between the book-eaters and the anki/wordlist ironmen: If you want to learn words from books then scan a...
Just a few points First about deleting old and/or hard Anki cards. I don't use Anki, but I have never liked to go back to old wordlists and...
Interesting article, but with a few weak points. On of these is the passage "The more mental sweat it takes to dig it out, the more securely it will...
I just know that I soon get tired and bored if I sit in my own room and speak to myself, whereas I can keep thinking silently for much longer -...
The 70% resp. 80% refer to coverage: 70% of all word forms in a standard corpus represent approximately 1000 unique wordforms, and 80% correspond to...
For me it is the time to look things up that makes writing easier. But it certainly also plays a role that I spend much more time reading than...
I would also have expected the sequence with a regular 2. repetition round and then Anki to function better than a sequence with an Anki round...
More destillations wouldn't help. I don't remember the information about the 70%, but my argument is a simple one: I put 4 x 25 words into a machine,...
I have now checked my resultats after the Goldlist - 3 column - 'lazy' list experiment. and the results were more extreme than I had expected. First...
The next Polyglot Gathering in Berlin is scheduled for May 2015, but I have seen different dates - in some places the dates are given as May 1-4, but...
I hope you can find a place for the soft cushions and the comfy chair (from Monty P's version of the Inquisition)
Well, you can adjust the difficulty of the words on your lists (whether golden or not) simply by choosing different words. I include a number of...
I would find both reading and translation much easier than speaking in every single language on my list, and even though I may be more 'letter...
Actually the gold- and other lists involved in this experiment are in Russian, but the overlap in vocabulary with Serbian/Croatian is so big that I...
One's native language or some other wellknown language can actually be used to ease the understanding of constructions which are very different from...
Using three-column wordlists as an introduction to the words which you then follow up through Anki seems to be a very sensible model - the only...
In my Serbian vocabulary project I have reached a milestone: I have reached the end of the alphabet and done at least two repetitions of all the...
It is not easy to put all these methods on a line. I keep a logbook at HTLAL, but it is not a place where I learn things (I report them, and I train...
My basic premise is that my chances of understanding a word in a given context and understanding what it has to do there are much better if you...
That is true, but as you probably remember I made word counts in Serbian for both pages in the part of the dictionaries I just had worked on with my...
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