flashcard player

[Joan Finlay]

Here is a website that compares a number of flashcard apps - written 
April 2011.

http://sites.google.com/site/richardmilena/using-an-android-smartphone-to-learn-vocabulary

Joan Finlay

On 29/05/2011 6:09 AM, Josh Berer wrote:
> 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!
>>>        
>>
>>      
>    

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