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Languages, yes. There are plenty of pre-made decks for learning the basics of pretty much all the major languages. Beyond that it's a mixed bag. There are usua
by joshvm 8y ago
Languages, yes. There are plenty of pre-made decks for learning the basics of pretty much all the major languages. Beyond that it's a mixed bag. There are usually decks for things like verbs and common nouns. Getting comprehension practice (e.g. grammar) is harder because that only comes with ingesting lots of material from different places (otherwise you tend to 'overfit' and rote learn the flashcards).
Making your own cards is more effective than using someone else's deck, simply because it's tailored to you. For anything other than a language, unless it's pop trivia, you should try to make your own cards. You typically have to work methodically through the thing you're trying to learn, which can help a lot. If you go with a pre-made deck then you're relying on what someone else thinks you ought to know.
- corecoder 8y ago> There are plenty of pre-made decks for learning the basics of pretty much all the major languages. I tried a few of them and the quality varies. The Arabic one I tried was very funny, it would show you something, like أ, and then ask: does it mean "Alif" the letter o does it mean: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood". Pretty useless.
- yorwba 8y ago> Getting comprehension practice (e.g. grammar) is harder because that only comes with ingesting lots of material from different places (otherwise you tend to 'overfit' and rote learn the flashcards). That could be solved by not treating flashcards as units of knowledge you need to memorize, but as tests that you can only pass if you know a certain set of things. Then you would simply add new things to learn (e.g. vocabulary, grammar rules) and the system selects appropriate flashcards from a large set of examples to test your knowledge. I've been working on something like that using example sentences from Tatoeba, but I didn't get very far yet, partially because defining the set of learnable grammar rules for a language I do not speak yet is a bit difficult.