Re: [lojban] smart.fm flashcards - obvious wrongness

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

(this should really be on the beginner's list)

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:55:23PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
> I'm trying using the gismu set on smart.fm <http://smart.fm/goals/
> 266809>.
> 
> I find that whenever I'm quizzed about a gismu place, the answer
> is always obvious because the current session is dealing with only
> a few gismu, and out of all the possible answers there is only one
> item which (if Lojban->English) is plausibly for that gismu or (if
> English->Lojban) is one of the gismu sumti being used in this
> test.
> 
> As a result, it doesn't really challenge me to learn the
> *positions* of the places of a gismu (e.g. that the route is {te
> klama} as opposed to {ve klama}, because the answer will always be
> the only one having to do with klama/going).
> 
> Is there any chance of some sort of solution to this?

There is no technical solution to this in the smart.fm setup that
I'm aware of.  My personal solution is to not click "quiz me" or
"next" until I'm sure I know which it is.  I haven't gone so far as
to deliberately click a wrong answer if I get it wrong in my head,
but I'm considering it.

I find the drill application more likely to come up with two
genuinely likely options than the iKnow application, by the way.

-Robin

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