I still love using flash cards and am going to start making more. What you you want to see made out of curiousity? In the past I was always taking things out of text books, or adding cards “randomly” when I ran into something I didn’t know, but I think I’m going to make some “themed” based ones.
Ones on my mind are:
Technology
Measure Words
Language Teaching (saying stuff like present progressive and simple progress in Chinese)
Video Games (names of popular games and systems)
Movies
Things like that. What think you? I’ll get a site up with the ones I make and a person should be able to (theoritically) download them and turn them into anything they want (they’ll just be txt files.) I also had an idea of making a Wiki where groups of people could somehow colaborate to make and maintain flashcards, but…’
These will just be regular text files, I won’t be doing anything particularly special. Though I do agree with have the radicals (oops… uh uh section heads) a different color. Someone else turned me on to that some time back, though I’ve never used it myself.
Any chance of doing a set on food. By this I mean names of dishes from “Zao dian’s” and then progress to the same for lunch and dinner. I hate to just point at the signs.
I just got a PDA and Pleco and I was going to do this myself.
That’s something I considered in the past. Like stuff you’d see on a breakfast, lunch or dinner menu. Maybe even more “high tech” menu items you wouldn’t normally find.
But I don’t have a problem reading menus anymore. If there’s interest, I’d do it for fun in me freetime though.
That reminds me (don’t as why .) I want to do a set on kungfu moves and vocabulary as well.
Miltownkid, honestly, you should just make the flashcards for whatever you’re interested in studying. It’s not like you have so much free time that you can be taking requests from everybody.
As far as tone numbers or tone marks are concerned, I don’t think it matters a whole lot. Even if tone numbers are slower to read, so what? It’s not like you’re reading paragraphs at a time on the flashcards. It’s usually just one to four characters at a time. I personally use the tone numbers too because it’s easiest to type, and you don’t have to worry about unicode support or whatever you would need for the tone marks to be able to display properly.
I still use text books a lot for studying since my Chinese is not all that great now. I’m currently on ShiDa Book 3, but I’ve already completed Taiwan Today recently. After that, I’m not sure which book I’ll choose, but it’s probably going to be another one of the books produced by ShiDa since I already have a lot of them at home. Books aren’t the only way to study, but it’s a convenient way that can be used to supplement other ways of studying.
If you are interested in some random databases for Supermemo, try this page. It’s from a guy who used to post on forumosa a while back. I find a lot of these sets a little too academic for my tastes, but everybody is different. geocities.com/mangalica/
I’ll definitely be interested in seeing any flashcard sets that you make. Hopefully you can get treated to some beers or some paypal donations for your efforts.
I was thinking about making sets for the sole purpose of selling/trading them (with my LETS things), so I thought I’d see where people’s interest lay. I was also just knowledge digging to see if someone would come up with anything I hadn’t thought of.
Yes it would, but I think you’re better off just learning the whole song “straight up.” The lyrics with pinyin under them is what I’d do (and did.)
No, but that made me think about doing some cards on the major (and minor) Chinese “Gods”, holidays, Historical folk, etc. I would like that and it would be fun putting together.
.) I want to do a set on kungfu moves and vocabulary as well.
