Tag Archives: english

I’ve got 500 sentences in my anki

Posted on April 3, 2010 by sting

After a month’s study, I’ve got 500 sentences in my anki. Just take a snapshot as a souvenir.

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Lingoes 2.7: a good choice for english study

Posted on April 2, 2010 by sting

Lingoes 2.7’s mini window mode is really convenient. Open mini window and stick it on the top, enable its “Translate selected text”, when selecting a word, the translation will be shown on the mini window automatically. Very handy!

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How to “Improving your english vocabulary”?

Posted on March 26, 2010 by sting

I find a good article on how to improve english vocabulary: http://www.english-at-home.com/vocabulary/improving-your-vocabulary/. I used to add the sentences read from books into Anki directly without adding them into a notebook. However, after a month’s study, I find that even I … Continue reading →

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Anki sync on my touch works again

Posted on March 19, 2010 by sting

I adjust the time on touch and it works again.

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SRS is not the silver bullet

Posted on March 18, 2010 by sting

SRS （Spaced Repetition Software, like supermemo, anki, mnemosyne) can help you to remember the words, sentences, but it doesn’ mean you can speak them fluently nor you can recall them when you want to use them. You still need to … Continue reading →

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Why my google customized search is not as good as google site search?

Posted on March 13, 2010 by sting

I created a customized search engine to search ivyenglish.com.cn, but I find that I cannot use phrase search on it. For example, I search “problem for” and will get nothing. But I search the same phrase using google site search: … Continue reading →

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Switch to mnemosyne

Posted on March 13, 2010 by sting

I switched to mnemosyne from anki for my english study recently. Anki’s online synchronization is good and it also can be used on my touch. (It was broken, though.) But I don’t like its review is minute-by-minute, not day-by-day. I … Continue reading →

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听ESL podcast居然自动搜出了lyric文件

Posted on February 23, 2010 by sting

在Windows 7上用media player听ESL podcast，居然搜出了lyric文件.. 真是不错啊

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推荐一个英语学习网站：http://www.ivyenglish.com.cn

Posted on February 3, 2010 by sting

这是赖世雄老师在大陆的网站，里面有很多免费的英语学习资料。 他把自己的美语从头学，唱歌学英语等的文章和音频全部放到了网上。还有像每日一读，每天都有精彩的文章。 在下载专区里面，还可以找到赖老师介绍如何学习英语的一些视频。 真的觉得赖老师很无私！！

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