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thorn324
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21 June 2010 at 12:15am | IP Logged 
I wonder if any of you has advice regarding the better way to make vocabulary flash cards for the study
of Esperanto. Is it better to put actual (i.e., full) Esperanto words or simply the roots on the cards? Or
would you recommend making cards with both?

Thanks for your help.
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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 2 of 6
21 June 2010 at 1:26am | IP Logged 
It would probably save time/cards to just add roots+affixes (you'd get quite far with ~1000 cards), but I've added anything from roots and isolated words to whole sentences, depending on what I've found useful.


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Disputulo
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21 June 2010 at 2:08am | IP Logged 
Definitely start out by learning as many affixes as you can as well as you can. They are
like multipliers. Your vocabulary is equal to r*(a+1) where r = the number of roots you
know, and a = the number of affixes you know. Well, not exactly, not all affixes work
with every word, but trust me, take the time to learn the affixes and correlatives as soon
as possible. Study them hard and often, know them backwards and forwards, and it will
help immensely.

Bonan Sxancon!
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21 June 2010 at 11:00am | IP Logged 
I created an Anki deck with all basic Esperanto roots, which you can download through the
"Shared Decks" section. Rather than giving a root like interes- I provided the most
important word (interesa = interesting), so that you have an easier time deriving other
words from it. The inherent word type of Esperanto word roots is a point a lot of
Esperantists argue about. I also provided sample sentences and related words.

To thoroughly practise the affixes, try the exercise I put on my blog:
http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/12/30/practise-esperanto -affixes/
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davidwelsh
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21 June 2010 at 10:45pm | IP Logged 
I've made some sets of vocabulary cards for BYKI.

http://www.byki.com/tag/esperanto
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Enriquee
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 Message 6 of 6
22 June 2010 at 8:26pm | IP Logged 
Flash cards:

I believe that if you complete any one Esperanto course, you will be able to start using Esperanto in less that 15 hours. That time wouldn't be enough to create a good set of flashcards.

If you insist in having flash cards you should start with the correlatives, prefixes, suffixes, prepositions, and adverbs ending in -aux. (you may group the correlatives according to their beginnings, 5 of them in each of 9 cards) (you don't need to know all the correlatives to be fluent in Esperanto)

Then ... don't put single words in your cards ... use full sentences. Single words are difficult to remember. Sentences are a little easier.



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