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Old Mar 15, 2018, 11:43 AM
ArcheM ArcheM is offline
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You young people these days and your smartphones. I just had an opportunity to look at Facebook on desktop (a friend's account) and there everything is in order. I suppose things are different on smartphones.

Yeah, flashcards are also... oh, yeah, not a desktop but a laptop, to be precise. I use flashcards on my laptop. Deleted the smartphone app. It doesn't work for me when I look at the question and then just flip to the translation word. If I forget a word I have to look at the context, and I prefer to google it anew for new examples. Otherwise it eventually becomes a meaningless and useless sequence of letters. This need makes the smartphone app very cumbersome.

I don't know if there's a unifying cause with all this, that you have to get physical books and dictionaries. I mean, with an online dictionary (like Glosbe) the number of words is much bigger than anything in print, endless examples, and you can set the font size (or zoom, I guess) to anything you want... Oh, and it's free!

I mean, there was a need to save money in our conversation, right? Today I looked at a Welsh textbook for around $15, found its approach and exercises unbearably boring (plus you have to buy audio materials separately), and I think I'm going to stick with free websites.
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