flashcard player

[Claire Bowern]

Looks like the other cell phone apps are free too (another argument for a
Droid :) ).
This looks fantastic. I tried another flashcard program a while ago and it
was a real pain. This looks much better.
Claire

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

> I just discovered Anki - a free flashcard program that has a large
> community of users and lots of free source material in many languages.
> It lets you include media with the words so has lots of possibilities
> for exporting from Elan or Transcriber.
>
> http://ankisrs.net/
>
> It also has an app for ipod that costs less than $20 and takes the
> same flashcards as the laptop
>
> Here's the blurb:
>
> Anki
> Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a
> lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either
> greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the
> amount you learn.
>
> Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit
> from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio,
> videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are
> endless. For example:
>
>    learning a language
>    studying for medical and law exams
>    memorizing people's names and faces
>    brushing up on geography
>    mastering long poems
>    even practicing guitar chords!
>
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