Hmm, the Leitner idea seems good. It reminds me of an idea I had recently, which was to crawl a bunch of internet news sites in the language of choice, build word lists, and flash-card the most commonly occurring words. It would be helpful to have access to a machine-readable dictionary, but not essential, because this could be fixed up by links to web-based dictionary sites and of course by linking to the source news item so you can see the word in context.
Whilst being a constant source of studyable vocabulary, it has the advantage of staying up to date, whilst also guarateeing to teach the most useful words first (i.e. the minimum words necessary to understand the greatest amount of news content). It may help to upgrade the weighting of unknown words that appear on their own in sentences, but that is something that could be figured out. Hmm... Maybe I'll do some CGI hacking at the weekend and see what falls out.
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Date: 2005-10-21 12:20 pm (UTC)Whilst being a constant source of studyable vocabulary, it has the advantage of staying up to date, whilst also guarateeing to teach the most useful words first (i.e. the minimum words necessary to understand the greatest amount of news content). It may help to upgrade the weighting of unknown words that appear on their own in sentences, but that is something that could be figured out. Hmm... Maybe I'll do some CGI hacking at the weekend and see what falls out.