About
Motivation
Modern flash cards tools like Quizlet offers a great feature set for the daily studying but also are integrating collaboration and AI features into their portfolio. This might work well for most students, but not for me as an individual learner. I prefer a simple and clean approach, where I can organize my study and cards by myself. Language learning is a journey and creating your own sets of flash cards is one part of it. If you agree with me in that opinion, this tool could be interesting for you.
The application breaks down the concept of language learning into 4 components:
- flash cards with a question/response pair including statistics
- groups with one or more flash cards
- sets with one ore more groups
- a learning engine based on the spaced repetition concept
The main idea is providing a structure for the flash cards, which allow to combine them easily. Later, a learn engine takes the card and prepares a learning deck.
Example
You are learning Spanish and have a set of common verbs you want to learn (estar, ser,hacer…). First step is adding them to a tool and creating a group with the verbs. Later you want to combine them with other words for your daily conversation and create a new group for it. What happens to the statistics? Your new words like casa, coche, etc. are now part of the verbs you’ve already mastered. Following the concept above, the Spanish verbs share the progress of your learning.
User Concept
The application has a user concept, and every user owns its own content. Future release might have the feature of sharing cards, but this is not implemented at this stage of development. Like other applications, the user has a password and a mail address. Please note, that I do not store your password. In fact, I am storing a hash value representing your password. Please don’t ask me what your password is, I simply do not know.