A Way To Learn

I've been bumming around on Dave's ESL trying to learn information about Bucheon-si and my school (no luck on my school!). It's a helpful site where you can get honest opinions on really any ESL topic- not just those related to Korea! Forums for each location are further broken down into sub-forums about jobs, living, general, etc. One post I was reading was about how many new vocabulary words people found that they could successfully learn per day. Amidst all of the numbers and explanations that were posted in response, I found a beautiful link. It was to a project called Mnemosyne. It's a flash card-based learning software that allows you to imput/import Q&A information. It even allows you to do image and title cards! (This would have been helpful for all of those art history courses, yeah?) The coolest part about this project, though, is that it allows you to rank the ease at which you remembered the question/image/phrase (0-5). Using the ranking that you provide, it then judges how frequently it needs to bring the card back in front of you so that you remember it well. If you rank it a 0 or 1, the card will resurface very soon. If you rank it between 2 and 5, the card will appear less often and sort of on a sliding scale with 5 being the least often.

Please go to their site and read all about it if you're curious. It's so interesting! They even have "cards" on the site that you can download and import into the program. The "cards" they have available span far beyond languages and each category is further broken down. I downloaded this 3000-words-in-Korean package. Intense! But I want to build my vocabulary, so it's perfect.

This image is their logo, and the caption is a link to their site. I've been having a pretty nice time with this software. :)

mnemosyne

Thanks for reading! May you enjoy this gem as much as I am.