Super awesome tools for memorizing new words (language learner) By Kun
Today, I'm going to show you guys a really cool stuff which is called Supermemo. Basically, it's an app that help you memorize new words and study new articles. How it works? Well, as you have known, there is a rule called Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve. In other words, you can just study in some specific time instead of study every day. Supermemo has a really amazing story, and it may be older than you. If you want to know more, you can go to Wiki for help.
I'm going to tell you how I use Supermemo for studying English. First, I want to tell you how I met Supermemo. I am a junior now, and I need to prepare SAT for the next year, so I began to memorize words as many as I can. I plan to memorize 200 words every day. At the first day of my plan, I found it's very hard for me to remember those new words. I can just barely remember almost 100 hundreds words, which are far from my goal. Then I stopped my plan and tried to find if there’s some tool, I can use. (Good Plan+ Good Tools= Success :-)
Then, I found two apps that can help me remember words. One of them is Anki (暗记：It means “memorize” in Japanese). The other one is Supermemo. I will list the differences between Anki and Supermemo below, and you can decide which one you want to use.
Anki may be more popular than Supermemo because of its simple and beautiful template. If you are the first time to use this kind tool, you’ll find you can easily use it without looking the Help. And there has already been lots of word lists in their website. You can easily download it from Anki for free. You can also make your own dictionary. Anki’s apps for mobile phones are much better than Supermemo. They have the apps for almost every kind smart phone. However, the only defect of Anki is the code (We can regard it as the app’s Brain) is a very old version from Supermemo (SM2), and Supermemo’s code is higher than SM7. However, there are still many Anki’s fans think it doesn’t matter. It’s hard to say which one is better.
Supermemo has a really long history and reputation for its function. The latest version for PC is UX and 2008. It’s a challenge to use Supermemo 2008, the template looks too difficult, and you may give it up without looking it again. But Supermemo UX is a pretty one. It looks simple and fancy too. It looks more beautiful than Anki in some words. I began to use SM UX first. SM UX is free, but you need to buy the word lists from its website. Nevertheless, I don’t want to buy the word lists which I don’t like. So I began to search how to make my own word lists. The first word list I wanted to make is SAT Barron 800. It’s harder to make SM word lists than Anki's lists. The word list format should be Q&A, for
Q: abate
A: vt. 使(数量、程度等)减少, 减轻 = wane = annihilate = eradicate = exterminate = extirpate; (法令等)被废除 = abolish
To be continued
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