ApplicationsSlovarik — working English out of your own meetings
Slovarik — working English out of your own meetings
A working-English vocabulary built out of your own meetings: under every word sits the real sentence somebody said it in.
What it is
Textbooks teach general English, while work needs a particular one: the words that come up in these meetings, with these people, about this subject. The tool builds the vocabulary out of a person’s own meetings — so it teaches the English they will need tomorrow and spends no time on the rest.
Under every card sits the actual sentence the word appeared in, and that is the main difference from a dictionary. A word learned from a definition is a word you recognise in somebody else’s speech. A word learned inside a sentence said by a colleague you know, on a subject you know, is a word you can say yourself. The cards come back on a spaced-repetition schedule.
Specifications: Python, spaced repetition, a desktop shortcut — a session takes about three minutes a day. The tool is deliberately small: a vocabulary trainer that demands half an hour never gets opened at all.
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