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[lojban-beginners] Re: Site for beginners was: vlatai and logflash



Parley is part of the KDE Education Project, it's a flashcard program built specifically to showcase different styles of foreign-language learning. Its free and only built for linux as far as I'm aware.

CSV (a .csv file) is literally just a text file with "comma separated values." Excel and OpenOffice can export and import as .csv, and it's really easy to transfer a plain text file (such as a list of gismu!) into csv format for quick creation and manipulation of "decks" of flashcards.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:43, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:


From: Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 8:32:03 PM

Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Site for beginners was: vlatai and logflash


re: Quizlet -- I tried quizlet a while back (and again after reading this email) and my connection is consistently reset (as it was last time I tried), which probably means it's very good, since China's censoring it! I'll fire up my proxy sometime and check it out.

The one thing that would make one of these services killer for me is import and export of plain old CSV files. That's why I like jMemorize, whereas things like Parley have flexibility but need pesky xml markup. Is Quizlet good for this?
 
What are CSV and Parley.  I'm Category 2, remember?


The other reasons I like smart.fm are I think the study sessions are very well-executed containing automatic mp3 playback, and the prompts to type the answers work great with ascii lojban.
 
Yes, it looks good, but it's not ready yet.  In the meantime....


I guess my point of mentioning flashcards in the first place was to say that I don't think it makes sense to design the website to include flashcards when there's free alternatives that are already hosted, maintained and developed elsewhere, and that would also give lojban more opportunities for mainstream exposure at the same time.

You're right of course!  But the beginner website should refer to them, and provide some information that will let the beginner choose the one best for him/her.
 
totus