{"id":10898,"date":"2015-01-30T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10898"},"modified":"2015-01-30T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:04:13","slug":"flashcards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10898","title":{"rendered":"Flashcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m focusing on improving my Russian and Czech, and am trying to keep my other languages ticking over. I&#8217;ve starting using <a href=\"http:\/\/ankisrs.net\/\">Anki<\/a> to store and learn words and phrases, and am finding it very useful. For words that can be visually represented, I use pictures rather than translations on the flash cards &#8211; an idea from Gabriel Wyner&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385348118\/omniglot-20\"><em>Fluent Forever<\/em><\/a>. For other words and phrases I use English translations. I&#8217;ve briefly dabbled with SRS programs like Anki before, but never really gave them much time. Now I&#8217;m starting to see how useful and effective they can be, especially if you make your own lists, rather than relying on those made by others.<\/p>\n<p>Another way I&#8217;m using to help me remember words is to learn the equivalent signs from the appropriate sign language, which I find in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadthesign.com\/\">Spread The Sign multilingual sign language dictionary<\/a>. So I&#8217;m learning Czech words and Czech Sign Language signs, and so on. This gives me gestures I can link to the spoken and written words, and I hope it will help me to remember them.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use Anki or other SRS \/ flash card programs? Do you find them useful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m focusing on improving my Russian and Czech, and am trying to keep my other languages ticking over. I&#8217;ve starting using Anki to store and learn words and phrases, and am finding it very useful. For words that can be visually represented, I use pictures rather than translations on the flash cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,13,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}