Vocab Wars

Learning foreign words through Flashcards with images… Sounds too basic to be effective, right? Well, that’s what I tried to find out in the fourth… Read More »Vocab Wars #4 Flashcards with Images

There are flashcards…..and then there are Smart Flashcards. Smart Flashcards follow the idea that it’s easier to remember something if we couple it with something… Read More »Long-Term Results of Vocab Wars #3: Smart Flashcards

Ever since I started its sessions, I’ve been very eager to find out the long-term results of Vocab Wars #2. The method of choice in… Read More »Long-Term Results of Vocab Wars #2: Writing Sentences with Foreign Words

That what’s close to us is easier to remember. So it makes sense to couple those things to new information we want to learn. Let’s… Read More »Vocab Wars #3 Testing Smart Flashcards + Long-Term Results of Vocab Wars #1

Would you remember more writing something down as opposed to just typing it? Studies suggest: Yes. And it makes sense: Typing is just pushing some… Read More »Is Writing Sentences With Pen and Paper a Good Way to Learn Foreign Vocab?

Time for something new. I always thought it would be great to run some tests and publish the results on Smart Language Learner. You know,… Read More »I Tried to Learn 50 Foreign Words in 100 Minutes with Basic Flashcards – Here are the Results