Wordalist
The Slavic department at Stockholm university has developed a very efficient language learning tool, Wordalist: www.wordalist.com
Main features:
- Statistics driven practice engine: Wordalist gathers data and gets to know each individual user and presents questions the user needs to practice more often, and those the user knows better less often, thus optimizing user experience and learning efficiency. Data from all users is also used in the algorithm; Wordalist knows which questions are hard and which are not.
- Extremely user friendly interface strictly focused on learning: we’ve stripped the layout from all distractions. It’s only you and your exercise. No obstacles; everything can be handled from your keyboard - just type your answer and hit enter and you’ll get the correct answer along with the next question. Wordalist is made with daily use in mind; there is nothing to distract you or irritate you. Our goal has been to create a feeling of ”flow”. Wordalist works both on computers and mobile devices.
- Creating new exercises and editing existing content is very simple and straightforward. You can also export and import questions with standard csv-files.
No learning tool, however competent, is worth using unless it contains high quality learning content. This is also the problem with many of the tools you find on the internet; they rely to heavy on the amateur user for content. In Wordalist anyone can set up new exercises, so students use it for their purposes of course, but the core learning content is created by professionals and you can easily find these exercises by filtering out content by popularity and/or size. Naturally we hope you will find Wordalist useful and choose to contribute and create your own exercises, but to get your students started we’re translating a quite extensive vocabulary exercise from Swedish/Russian to English/Russian. Altogether approximately 2400 words/questions divided into three main levels and sub-divided into sections to enable a progression from absolute beginner to intermediate:
http://wordalist.com/exercise/852 (600 words; ready to use)
http://wordalist.com/exercise/863 (700 words; ready to use)
http://wordalist.com/exercise/872 (still being translated; will contain 1100 words upon completion)
To use Wordalist you need to register: