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"Fluent Forever" has a suggestion of putting a picture (from, say, google image search) on the front of the card, and the foreign word as the answer. That way y
by drivers99 8y ago
"Fluent Forever" has a suggestion of putting a picture (from, say, google image search) on the front of the card, and the foreign word as the answer. That way you test yourself by producing the correct word without translating it from language 1 to language 2.
Example for Spanish:
Front: picture of a "gatito" from google image search.
Back: gatito
The word "kitten" is not used at all. No translations!
The reason you search images in the foreign language is that sometimes the foreign word has a different connotation, and isn't a direct translation. (The example he used was for "girl" in Russian. девушка supposedly means "girl" and yet when you search it, it's (mostly) seemingly a certain type, not "girl" in general.)
- purerandomness 8y agoWhat you say makes sense. In that particular case however, there might be a simple mistake: девушка doesn't mean "girl" in russian - it means "young woman". A "girl" would be девочка.
- adrianN 8y agoThat only works for simple words. For example when I google for "Zufriedenheit" (satisfaction), I get a picture of a red boat.