{"id":141,"date":"2008-02-16T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nihongo.3yen.com\/2008-02-16\/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:51:50","slug":"linq-a-promising-and-cool-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingq, a cool and promising flash card website"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wanted to write a quick post about Lingq<\/a>, a website I just found about today. It’s so cool that I just had to write something about it right away. It’s a real world implementation of some of my ideas for a better flash card program. Instead of having to create your own index cards, the website has a thing called a store which is a library of content for the language you want to learn. You can create and share your own content by adding text and upload images\/audio.<\/p>\n

Flash cards are created by selecting text and clicking a little widget at the bottom of the screen. The flash cards show you a phrase with the word instead of just having the reading and definition like most flash card programs\/websites.\u3000You can add them if you want, however, as a hint.<\/p>\n

This is pretty much exactly what I was talking about. Sharing content and creating flash cards that have meaningful content. Though it doesn’t work for Chinese, Japanese lookups work amazingly well. Now, all they have to add is user ratings to help filter out the most interesting content.<\/p>\n

There are also additional features involving tutors and Skype that I haven’t tried out.<\/p>\n

I encourage everybody reading this to try it out.<\/p>\n

My only minor complaints are that the navigation is hard to get at first and the site seems a bit slow.<\/p>\n

Also, my original idea had linking and giving proper credit to the original content. I guess these guys are not too worried about the ethical implications of uploading other peoples’ content directly to their website without providing any kind of credit. Especially since it looks like they are trying to make a buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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