WordsMemorizer

Foreign words memorizing tool
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  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Chesnokov Yuriy
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Chesnokov-Yuriy
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 189 KB

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WordsMemorizer Description

The WordsMemorizer application was developed to be a foreign words memorizing program for people eager in the superior knowledge of several foreign languages. Sooner or later, you might be bored with having just one foreign language (English) knowledge in the case of non-English speakers, or any other single language for English speakers. Apparently, in the era of globalization, the more languages you know, the better you'd be appreciated in a large company operating worldwide, as a person with the knowledge of several foreign languages will be invaluable for them (I presume the value/number of languages plot will have an exponential curve). That will be valid until devices come in, that translate foreign audio speech to your native textual representation and vice versa, recognizing your utterance, and pronouncing it itself in another language.To be more specific, the problem I faced before with English, and now with Espanol and Italian languages, is to keep your learned foreign words vocabulary up to date in your mind. The more information you receive, the brain tends to get rid of the old ones, which is not renewed from time to time. That does not concern the simple ones (e.g., school, boy, to do, el niño, la mujer, tengo hambre, caja de muerto, figlio di putana etc...) which you hear every day, and they become hard coded in your neural paths, but the more complex ones of the advanced literary genre, e.g., you read Poe or Shakespeare and there is stupendous score of them you are not likely to encounter unless you spend all your free time in Poe's literary societies.Obviously rereading all your previous texts and words you had been studying takes enormous time and effort. But, if you have all your words in digital form, you may take them in random order from time to time to refresh your knowledge. Also, memorizing them in the same order you have written down before will help you to memorize the words in a series of patterns, e.g., recalling certain words will be impossible unless you encounter the previous ones from that list.To facilitate the situation, I developed a simple GUI program in C# which takes your digital lists of foreign words + translations, takes them in random order, presents to you either the foreign word or the translation, and asks you to type in the corresponding translation or foreign word. It provides the total score you achieved as a percentage of your mistakes to the total number of words you answered. There is also a very nice feature; it estimates the time you spent before seeing the word and typing in its translation. All errors are logged into an error.log file so you may start studying them again.


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