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Commentaires sur Building vocabulary through spaced repetition par Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Sun, 18 May 2014 01:28:58 +0000

I am a well-educated, native speaker of American English, currently studying Spanish very seriously, and I have been very pleased with the results I have gotten with Anki. I made a list of the most frequent Spanish words, taken from a frequency dictionary, and in about eight months I have mastered about 5,000 words, in frequency order.

It should be understood that flashcards will not give you full mastery of a foreign word, but rather are just an efficient way to gain passive recognition ability. However, given that much command of the most frequent 5,000 words, you will be able to read nearly everything in the way of ordinary text (e.g. newspapers and magazines) with rather little trouble. Each page will still have some words that you do not know, but you will still understand more than 95%, so learning the remaining words is pretty easy, because you will understand the context in which they are being used.

In short, I highly recommend both Anki and the use of word frequency lists. The combination leads to quite rapid buildup of useful vocabulary.

One key point is to limit the new words to about 20 a day. That will seem very slow at first, and you will be tempted to do more, but you really will do better at the more modest rate. Also, the results add up fast. Twenty words a day for 250 days is 5.000 words. That is really a lot, and doing it in such small steps will make it very easy to persist with the practice, because it is only a few minutes a day.

Again, there are very few language study tools that are anywhere near this effective for their purpose.

Commentaires sur Saving time on lesson plans par ian

ian — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:42:10 +0000

..about 2 weeks after this was posted we released ‘upload my content’ so you can now upload your own files. We’ve also introduced CEFR leveling, student accounts so you can share, assign and track progress, plus we now have video activities with captioned news content for listening activities and writing activities where the student and teacher can analyse their written answers with our analyzer. Video is not on public release and writing activities requires a student account. We’re offering free trials for schools that are interested. Just get in touch. Happy to organize a webinar if you’d like. thx, Ian

Commentaires sur American or British? Divided by a common language par Simon Bourn

Simon Bourn — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:10:33 +0000

Interesting – thanks for that. It’s not so black and white then. English vocabulary is certainly becoming more globalised. Out of interest, what region of the UK are you from?

Commentaires sur American or British? Divided by a common language par Mikeyc

Mikeyc — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:48:39 +0000

This is highly inaccurate, in the uk we don’t use pillar box, we use postbox, we use green pepper and spatula, it’s bedsit not bedsitter and the rest are generally poorly researched

Commentaires sur Building vocabulary through spaced repetition par Simon Bourn

Simon Bourn — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:08:08 +0000

Thanks for your comment. There is a huge range of flashcard and space repetition apps - many of which have appeared since I wrote this post. For Android you could try Study Droid, gFlash+, or Kaka Flashcards. Here is a long list of flashcard apps for iPhone. Failing that you could try desktop apps like Popling - there are also many others... Happy searching.

Commentaires sur Building vocabulary through spaced repetition par IELTS Singapore

IELTS Singapore — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:52:14 +0000

I’ve been looking through posts on Spaced repetition software. I’ve been implementing the use of it in my English teaching. I’m wondering if you hve any updates and views on other software. Anki is good but it costs a bit for the iphone app which is not good for my students. Thanks.

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Commentaires sur How to get to grips with the verb « get » par Jeff Keith

Jeff Keith — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:39:40 +0000

I conceive of « get » as having several different synonyms: get-obtain, get-become, get-move yourself, and get-arrive. I note that you didn’t mention « get-arrive » above. « What time does the train get to Philadelphia? » « What time does the bus get to Market Street? » I am a native speaker in the USA, and I certainly disagree with Bill above that « get » is slang. (But I don’t write academic papers; I just teach ESL a lot.)

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Commentaires sur How to get to grips with the verb « get » par Simon

Simon — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:47:40 +0000

Thanks Bill, although as « get » is one of the ten most common verbs in the English language, I’m not sure that it’s very practical to try and avoid it.