Category Archives: Software

Native Anki App is out for iPhone / iPod Touch

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Josh

If you don’t follow the Anki Google group, you might have missed something rather exciting: Damien, developer of Anki, has had the first version of Anki for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad approved by Apple. Take a look.

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Cyrillic Handwriting – Should You Learn It?

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Josh

I saw a forum post at How To Learn Any Language which caught my interest. Namely, Iversen (who’s word list method I’m still using, by the way) said: I disagree with Chelovek on one point – his recommandation of cursive … Continue reading →

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Top Result for “Language Learning” = Rosetta Stone

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Josh

I just put in “language learning” at Google, and discovered that the top result is Rosetta Stone. Seeing it made me curious – what do you folks think of the software? I’ve used it before, and didn’t much like it. … Continue reading →

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Anki now supports changing of text color

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Josh

I forgot to write a quick post on this at the time of it happening, so here’s that post a bit late: Damien, the maker of Anki, has put out a number of updates over the past weeks. I wrote … Continue reading →

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Farewell, SuperMemo; Hello, Anki.

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Josh

I’ve finally given up on SuperMemo, the beefed up flashcard program I’ve been using for vocabulary acquisition. After having used it for a few months, I had become accustomed to its idiosyncrasies, if not having fallen in love with them. … Continue reading →

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