From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 02 09:16:12 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 02 May 2005 09:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DSdae-0003Xy-3A for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 09:16:12 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DSdae-0003Xr-0v for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 09:16:12 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 09:16:12 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [ANN] LearnLojban for the PalmPilot Message-ID: <20050502161611.GL29072@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <42745406.4010704@gulik.co.nz> <7dc831ed050501233213587f21@mail.gmail.com> <200505021517.j42FHFTd008306@mole.e-mol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505021517.j42FHFTd008306@mole.e-mol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1400 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:17:15AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > What I want to know about the applications is whether they support > backward flashcard memorization which language learning seems to > need. In other words, when you are shown a Lojban word and asked > for the English word, and then given the English word and asked > for the Lojban word, does the program know that these are the same > information? Does it link them together in any way so that they > stay together in the schedule? For myself, in SuperMemo, I have each direction in a seperate database. I like to have them come up as far *apart* as possible. Otherwise, seeing one direction artificially reminds me of the other. Treating them seperately is harder, and hence better for my actual performance in the real world. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/