Hoi Peter, This is probably exactly what I am looking for. I just started to use Mnemosyne for learning French and noticed that just single words felt empty. (copy and paste lists of words) Lots of question marks would pop up in my head, where exactly can i use this word???
So I thought about adding a few more words just to make it make more sense. (lot of work) Plus I looked for lists of short phrases. Today I read more of the documentation and saw the 'sentence' option. That's also good. (even more than a lot of work?) But I would love to see and read more of what you described. Is it possible that we can see it or even use it? Greetings. On Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 12:11:16 PM UTC+2 Peter Bienstman wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is interesting to anybody, but I thought I'd share how my > methods for language learning have evolved over the years. > > As you can image, I spent quite a lot of time doing flashcards, amassing > more than 30k of them over more than a decade. However, when I started > hitting 300 daily reps, I realised this was not sustainable anymore. So, > that's why two years ago, in Mnemosyne 2.8, I added a feature to stop > showing cards once they had a certain number of successive successful > reviews. > > That helped getting my workload under control, but after a while I started > to realise that if you're doing a lot of flashcards, you're getting really > good at... doing flashcards... I didn't really feel like the flashcards > improved my actual language abilities a lot. This was even when using > sentence cards, because I would often remember what a sentence meant simply > by reading the first few words. So, reading the rest of the sentence had no > more benefit. > > Rather then using fixed sentences, I then started experimenting with > having different sentences for a word each time. I initially thought of > doing this inside Mnemosyne, but the interface was not a good fit for this, > and grading became kind of meaningless anyway with this approach. So now I > have a bunch of scripts which pull words from a list, using a finite and > fixed sequence of intervals, and then collect sentences from the web > (mostly from Reverso Context, but I even experimented with using ChatGPT > for this). I originally generated an epub ebook from them, but now they are > collected in a webpage, so that I still have the benefit of using > browser-based dictionaries, sound files, shuffling word lists, etc. > > Anyway, over the last year or so, I felt that spending 15 minutes doing > this generated far greater dividends than doing flashcards for 15 minutes. > In hindsight, this should have been obvious: if you want to get good at > something, you should practice exactly that, and not something that's > tangentially related to this... > > Cheers, > > Peter > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/2217e212-cd3b-49de-9663-bbac09eaad22n%40googlegroups.com.
