Grablevskij
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- Aug 17, 2007
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Russian Federation
I'd like to try flash cards. My level seems to be advanced. But I find my active vocabulary very weak.
That is why I'd like to use cards to convert words from pasive vocabulary to the active one.
This means mainly memorizing:
1. Translation.
2. Ethimology.
3. Phonetics.
4. Language constructions (example: abandon something to somebody/something) and pharses They had to abandon their lands to the invading forces.
5. Idioms.
Let the goal to be to activate Oxford 3000. Well, it is not that high a level. Maybe 3000 words is for itermediate level or something. So, this is not scary. I mean 3000 words.
But as far as I remember the principles of using flash cards, only one piece of information shold be on a card.
Well, combining translation, ethimology and phonetics seems ok for me. At least I don't mind that.
But it is reasonable to dedicate a whole card to each phrase. Reasonable because otherwise there will be a lot of hints for the phrase. And we don't want any hints. We want to be honest with onselves.
So, each phrase has a separate card. But we already have 3-4 phrases wor a word, plus a couple of idioms. We'll get at least 15 thousand flash cards.
Is this reasonable? Do you yourself practice such amount of cards?
That is why I'd like to use cards to convert words from pasive vocabulary to the active one.
This means mainly memorizing:
1. Translation.
2. Ethimology.
3. Phonetics.
4. Language constructions (example: abandon something to somebody/something) and pharses They had to abandon their lands to the invading forces.
5. Idioms.
Let the goal to be to activate Oxford 3000. Well, it is not that high a level. Maybe 3000 words is for itermediate level or something. So, this is not scary. I mean 3000 words.
But as far as I remember the principles of using flash cards, only one piece of information shold be on a card.
Well, combining translation, ethimology and phonetics seems ok for me. At least I don't mind that.
But it is reasonable to dedicate a whole card to each phrase. Reasonable because otherwise there will be a lot of hints for the phrase. And we don't want any hints. We want to be honest with onselves.
So, each phrase has a separate card. But we already have 3-4 phrases wor a word, plus a couple of idioms. We'll get at least 15 thousand flash cards.
Is this reasonable? Do you yourself practice such amount of cards?