Hi my name is Jimmy and I’m a Product Manager here at Livemocha working on the Flashcards feature.
Since we’ve added Flashcards, some of our international members have been asking what a flashcard is and how can they can use it to help them learn.
Flashcards are widely used as a learning tool to aide memorization. These cards are usually grouped into sets, typically named after the subject matter that you are learning. The student writes vocabulary, sentences or conjugations they are learning on the front side of the card and the answer on the back side.
For example, if you wanted to learn English travel terms using Chinese, you would name your set “Travel Terms” and for each card in the set, the front would show an English word, and the back side would show the Chinese translation.
On Livemocha, we’ve created a couple of ways to create Flashcards.
While you are learning new terms in the Learn section of a lesson, you can create a set and save the terms you want to remember. You can then review the cards you’ve saved by clicking the My Flashcard Sets link.
You can also create Flashcards from the My Flashcard Sets section. From this page you can create blank sets and cards. This is a good place to create sets in your native language to give back to the community or to create sets from words you may have picked up elsewhere.
If you want ideas on what a Flashcard set should look like, you can now browse through all the sets other members have created. From the main menu, click Practice and then Flashcards in the sub menu. The sets you create will also show up here.
We believe Flashcards are a fun and effective way to help you memorize your new language terms.
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