Having just completed week seven of my course at university, it’s time for us to face the ultimate challenge - the midterm examinations. On this coming Monday and Tuesday, I will be tested on listening, comprehension, grammar and Kanji. It’s somewhat worrying then that everything I seem to attempt to memorize goes in one ear and out the other.
Thank goodness, then, for jMemorize, which is a fantastic free flash card program. Basically, if you are willing to take the time to create ‘cards’, you can then flick through them relatively quickly, checking your knowledge of grammar and so on along the way. Whilst it is quite a simple program, it does have an awful lot of flexibility and various options to help you focus on particular parts of language.
Here’s an example of it in use. I’m using Darren’s flashcards, who is a guy from my course with far too much dedication and not nearly enough slacking off…
So there you have it. Sorry about the length of this update, it was just a break from copying out thousands of symbols over and over. If you’re wondering, the DIR EN GREY review will come very soon :)
November 16th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Just downloaded jMemorize, sounds really useful! I don’t fancy making all the cards tho! You may already know the site, but you can buy some really good flashcards for Kanji
http://www.whiterabbitpress.us/
Honestly they are brilliant, give stroke order, common compounds, and all different ways of reading. All the snow melted again out here, my winter wonderland lasted only a day. We’re expecting a load more tomorrow tho, Yay!
November 17th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Tim: Good stuff :) You’re obviously getting all our snow because we get none :(
Making the cards is dull but they pay off big time :)