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Originally Posted by ArcheM
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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Yeah, smartphone apps can be weird, I did find a German/English dictionary app which if you typed in a word in German or English it would give you the translation and a bunch of examples of uses for the word, well sentences using the word, I forgot what the app is called though, I'll have to look for it again. With books, I just like something tangible that I can read, plus I did find on Amazon books for grammar, verbs, pronouns (I think, I'll have to look again at that one), and a bunch of books with short stories that you can read in German (though it says for beginners I don't think it's for the absolute beginner, so I'll wait on that). But the books I can get either when I do have money or I can ask my Dad to buy some for me.
My problem will be memorizing everything, I can memorize a price of sheet music no problem sometimes within a day I'll have the music memorized, but words I have more difficulty retaining, I don't know exactly why that is, but that is how it is for me, bit I think the more I practice the better I'll get with memorizing the words and retaining them, it'll just be a little more difficult than sheet music.