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>Hi, >I’ve been using vtrain for a while now and really like >it. I have two questions about soundfiles: >a) Although I have checked ‘Play answers >automatically’ the program does it with one cardfile >and not with another. Why? >b) Frequently, when recording sounds, the program >displays a seemingly arbitrary file (the same again >and again) when skipping to the next, i.e. it promts a >soundfile (not even of that card) again and again. >Why? >I would be grateful if you could let me know if >there’s anything I can do about that or whether it’s >just a bug of the program. > >If any of you are involved with the development of the >program, congratulations. I have previously designed a >testing program myself when I had no access to >internet or other programs and worked a lot with it. >Therefore, I have a lot of experience with working >with this kind of program and I have to say that you >have almost all the features I would like to have. In >case you are looking for new ideas, here a few: >1. I use a three tier system to learn, first in >sequence, than random, than against time, each >progressing to the next when reaching about 80-90%. >All this can be done with vtrain. There is one thing >that tops it as a fourths stage that increases mastery >and reduces waste dramatically. If you speed check >your content, there are small differences in >hesitation or delay that are sufficient to make a >relevant hierarchy out of the time needed to answer. >From this observation emerges the following cool >feature: Once the content is mastered fairly well >offer to check against time. Measure the response time >for each answer, put them in order according to speed >and then offer to retest the 50% that are slowest. Do >that repeatedly, in other words, if you test 200 >terms, retest the 100 slowest, than the 50 slowest, >than the 25 slowest, than the 12 slowest. I call it >Mastery Pyramid Speed Drill but call it anything you >like and use it as you please if you like it. >2. Sometimes there is a temptation to try correcting >oneself, guessing half a dozen times, until one has >got it right. This may be cheating oneself, though, >giving the impression that one knows what one doesn’t. >Therefore, a great feature is an automatic display of >the answer – and record as not known – if one has to >be corrected (“Well … words are missing or wrong”) >more than x (2 or 3) times. >3. Something that would be great with vtrain would be >a template with images of items that one can >superimpose the language that one wants to learn on. >I.e. picture of clouds, a car, a bus etc. I know the >value of imagery but I found it too laborious to make >the files, finding photos, pasting etc. > >I have more ideas but I have (intentionally) no email >address and rarely internet access, so I have to kind >of throw this at you without being able to gradually >check out what kind of comment or feedback you >welcome. You have offered me the license for free >because I live here in Cambodia and could not really >afford it otherwise, so this is just one small way I >hope to make some kind of contribution to show my >gratitude, so forgive me if this is not really what >you’re looking for. >All the best, Philipp

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