An iPhone application to help you learn
It has long been known that one of the best ways to learn a new language, learn vocabulary, or learn any sort of written information is to use flash cards. They allow you to see both the known and unknown information at a glance, and focus your attention on a manageable piece of information at a time. Once you have mastered the information you are studying, you can move on to the next.
However, creating flash cards can be a bit laborious, and once created you often don’t have them with you when they would be most useful - when you have unscheduled downtime. You will most certainly have your phone with you, though. So, its natural to include a flash card application on your phone that makes it easy to create, modify, and use sets of flash cards.
On the iPhone, you may have noticed that flash card applications already exist, varying in price from free to $4.99. Some are targetted towards children, some to medical students, and some at a wide range, able to load vocabulary from a variety of word lists.
I like the latter approach, where the application can help you learn what you want; just select a word list and use it. There is no limitation by the application for what types of words you can use. However, even this approach is a bit limiting. If I create an absolutely fantastic list of Swedish verbs, and want to, I should be able to share them with others.
VocabViewer will have an option to enable sharing of word lists, which will upload additions to existing, or new, word lists to our servers. Once their, they will be verified by our moderators to ensure that they fit the category and are appropriate, and will then be available for others to use.
How will VocabViewer do this? Check out my post at Kin Development for some insight into the process.
- Mark