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Remember Your Spanish with Flashcards
How do you remember words that you learn? If you don’t do anything to remember them, chances are that they float gently out of your memory over time. I am a fan of using flashcards, and I have used paper … Continue reading
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Now I Am Liking Physical Flash Cards More
I’ve written about using flash cards for learning Spanish before, but most of that has been about using inexpensive or free programs that you can use on your computer. (Scroll down and click on Flash Cards in the sidebar to … Continue reading
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Oops, Been Bogging Down on Flashcards
I am convinced that using computer flashcards is an incredibly valuable way to learn Spanish vocabulary. Even essential — unless you are a child or have a photographic memory. I feel even more strongly about this now than when I … Continue reading
Tackling Past Tense Verbs with Flash Card Programs
I’m becoming more and more of a fan of using flash card programs, as I’ve been using VTrain long enough now ( a few weeks) to notice that I’m remembering things I tended to forget before. So I decided to … Continue reading
Flash Card Programs and Your Memory
Of course you know how paper flash cards work, for learning Spanish or anything. You turn them over and see if you had it right, then make piles of which ones you know and which ones you don’t. I thought … Continue reading
VTrain Flashcard Software: A Review
When I was looking for a good Spanish flashcard program to use on my computer, I came across several recommendations for VTrain… that’s short for Vocabulary Trainer. You can download it and try it for 30 hours, after which the … Continue reading
Anki: A Popular Free Spanish Flash Card Program
Anki is a free language flash card program for Windows, Mac, Linux, and some mobile platforms which I turned to after exploring another one called Mnemosyne. For an overview of Spanish flash card programs, this link takes you to my … Continue reading
Mnemosyne: A Free Spanish Flash Card Program
Mnemosyne is one of two free programs descended from a commercial flash card program called SuperMemo. SuperMemo exists but I found a number of references online to its being buggy and these two programs being better than it, so I … Continue reading
Spanish Flash Card Programs: An Overview
There are flash card programs that will present you with the cards at intervals that correspond to how our memories work, and they come in both free and low cost versions. I examined three programs that seem to be widely … Continue reading