WordSteps: Learning foreign words online

This guest post is written Vladimir Saranchina.

Recently, I wrote a series of articles on which there are ways to learn foreign words. In particular, the most popular way - use of words cards. Remind its essence. Take a stack of cards of small size (for example, as a business card) on one side write the word, on the other - its translation into the desired language. We try to remember the words, mix cards, remember orders and so on, until you remember all the words from the stack.

Automate and significantly enhance the ability of the method will help the Internet, or rather interesting service for learning foreign words - WordSteps.com. You may ask - how? I tell more. In WordSteps based on a set of specialized dictionaries, allowing the study of words in different 9ti languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Users can create their own dictionaries to use dictionaries or other participants in the service.

For example, you decide to create your own set of words. The procedure for entering words as much as possible automated. You enter the word, Google Translate service here built also offers a suitable translation. In addition to English words transcription registers automatically. Most of the words voiced by native speakers. We made dictionary and get access to 6-exercises, including one of the main "card of the word." True service WordSteps performed this exercise has a few more features than the word translation. First, you can turn on suggestions mode. Secondly, being full statistics of correct and incorrect answers. Statistics saved in the student's profile and allows you to track the progress of vocabulary.

You can also use ready-made sets that were created by other users of the system. Most dictionaries are selected by voting.

In fact, the word cards - this is only a small fraction of the possibilities offered service for memorizing words. WordSteps idea is the ability to quickly and efficiently learn new words. For this project proposes to use the free mobile application WordSteps Mobile Client. You can download dictionaries from site, and to learn words in a road with the help of 5-accessible exercises.

Developers also try to offer in utility WordSteps Reader, The essence of which is the ability to translate unknown words when reading texts and then form one word, and upload to the site. Next, go to your profile and learn the words of the text is the familiar exercise.

In general, if you have problems with remembering words or tired of cramming, WordSteps help to diversify and improve the quality of training memorize foreign words.