Comments on: Patrick’s Spanish Study Methods http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/ A little place for learning languages Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:32:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thomas http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-324 thomas Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:55:22 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-324 @peter and Jeff: I've used both Mnemosyne and Anki and Anki is by far the superior program. You can customize your cards however you want, format text any way you want, and it gives you a bunch of different graphs and statistics to look at so you can see how you are doing and what's coming up. @peter and Jeff: I’ve used both Mnemosyne and Anki and Anki is by far the superior program. You can customize your cards however you want, format text any way you want, and it gives you a bunch of different graphs and statistics to look at so you can see how you are doing and what’s coming up.

]]> By: peter http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-323 peter Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:34:08 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-323 @Jeff: I personally use Mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/), but it does not have an online component. Lots of people use Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) which has an online component, but I've never used it. @Jeff: I personally use Mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/), but it does not have an online component. Lots of people use Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) which has an online component, but I’ve never used it.

]]> By: Jeff http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Jeff Thu, 29 May 2008 15:39:17 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-320 I can personally attest to how well Livemocha.com works (at least for me). It is a great language-learning social networking site that allows you to enroll in language "courses." There are many courses for Spanish, which I am working on now, as well as Brazilian Portuguese, which I have just begun. I also feel that flash cards are very helpful tools, as opposed to just reading words in a dictionary. However, I feel that it is counterproductive to use paper flash cards, so I am thinking of making the transition to online flash cards. Any recommendations for which program to use? I can personally attest to how well Livemocha.com works (at least for me). It is a great language-learning social networking site that allows you to enroll in language “courses.” There are many courses for Spanish, which I am working on now, as well as Brazilian Portuguese, which I have just begun.

I also feel that flash cards are very helpful tools, as opposed to just reading words in a dictionary. However, I feel that it is counterproductive to use paper flash cards, so I am thinking of making the transition to online flash cards. Any recommendations for which program to use?

]]> By: peter http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-315 peter Wed, 21 May 2008 16:26:14 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-315 @thomas: I've not used the program for very long, but the part of it I did try consisted of showing you four pictures, and a word or phrase was spoken and displayed on the screen, and you had to choose the picture that matched the phrase. It starts simple with things like "boy", "girl", etc. and builds up slowly to things like "a boy under an airplane" and "a girl riding a horse". I'm sure it gets more complicated than that, but like I said, I haven't used it much. @thomas: I’ve not used the program for very long, but the part of it I did try consisted of showing you four pictures, and a word or phrase was spoken and displayed on the screen, and you had to choose the picture that matched the phrase. It starts simple with things like “boy”, “girl”, etc. and builds up slowly to things like “a boy under an airplane” and “a girl riding a horse”. I’m sure it gets more complicated than that, but like I said, I haven’t used it much.

]]> By: thomas http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-313 thomas Wed, 21 May 2008 10:49:22 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-313 I've never used Rosetta Stone before - it looks too expensive to buy. How does it work exactly? I’ve never used Rosetta Stone before – it looks too expensive to buy. How does it work exactly?

]]> By: Patrick http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Patrick Tue, 20 May 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-312 Forgot to mention something. Ive found some online flash cards for verbs and they work really well. I dont have the link because i was on my laptop at the time. And as it is, I am too lazy to go and get it. Google spanish flash cards and you can find it. The flashcard program lets you pick which ones to keep in your pile. So that way you can get rid of ones that you know you wont forget. There was like 82 or so verbs in different tenses so it was helpful. Forgot to mention something. Ive found some online flash cards for verbs and they work really well. I dont have the link because i was on my laptop at the time. And as it is, I am too lazy to go and get it. Google spanish flash cards and you can find it. The flashcard program lets you pick which ones to keep in your pile. So that way you can get rid of ones that you know you wont forget. There was like 82 or so verbs in different tenses so it was helpful.

]]> By: peter http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-311 peter Tue, 20 May 2008 13:27:15 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-311 @Ramses: I've personally only played with Rosetta Stone for a few minutes, but I would agree that any study method supplemented with SRS is beneficial. I hope to introduce Patrick to SRS soon. @Ramses: I’ve personally only played with Rosetta Stone for a few minutes, but I would agree that any study method supplemented with SRS is beneficial. I hope to introduce Patrick to SRS soon.

]]> By: Ramses http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Ramses Tue, 20 May 2008 12:57:04 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/spanish/patricks-spanish-study-methods/#comment-310 Well, I think Rosetta Stone is only good for vocab building along with SRS. As said, it doesn't cover much grammar so just spending some extra time with your SRS sentences is much more effective (and cheaper!). Well, I think Rosetta Stone is only good for vocab building along with SRS. As said, it doesn’t cover much grammar so just spending some extra time with your SRS sentences is much more effective (and cheaper!).

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