flashcard player

[Josh Berer]

I don't know if you've tried MentalCase, but its AWESOME. It links in
automatically to flashcardexchange.com which has hundreds of thousands
of flashcards free for download, not just language related (although
that is a large component) but biology, history etc.
I think the Ipad app is like 5 bucks.
J

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>
>