Thread: Vocab Tutor

I found this site where you can download for free a small program to help memorize vocab with access to vocab lists in several languages including Russian. What do you think?
http://www.superliminal.com/tutor/tutor.htm

Some one on another forum recommended Interlex (http://www.vocab.co.uk/download.htm) and I've been really impressed with it. You can load a series of subject-related dictionaries and it has some nice quizzing features. There seems to be a good base of Russian support -- I think about 25 different card sets to choose f rom. You can also create your own, as I did to help me through some readings. The on DDT posted isn't bad, it just seems to be extremely basic. Better yet, use both of them, since they're both free.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Some one on another forum recommended Interlex (http://www.vocab.co.uk/download.htm) and I've been really impressed with it. You can load a series of subject-related dictionaries and it has some nice quizzing features. There seems to be a good base of Russian support -- I think about 25 different card sets to choose f rom. You can also create your own, as I did to help me through some readings. The on DDT posted isn't bad, it just seems to be extremely basic. Better yet, use both of them, since they're both free.

I downloaded both of them. The first one, though basic, has the advantage of repeating the words that you get wrong, peiodicaly, throughout the session which increases my ability to absorb the word.
The second program only repeats the words you get wrong until you get it right the first time which doesn't really mean that the word has been learnt.

EDIT: For the benefit of the Russians who are learning English and those Yanks that don't know much English.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/ ... ing/learnt

Originally Posted by DDT

I found this site where you can download for free a small program to help memorize vocab with access to vocab lists in several languages including Russian. What do you think?
http://www.superliminal.com/tutor/tutor.htm

I had Lingvo Tutor for the same purpose and found it useless.
I tried to learn some German words in that fashion and discovered that I couldn't remember a single word in just a few hours (except for the self-explaining words like "Fahrrad" constructed from the words I already knew).
So I think the only effective way to learn words is to learn them in some context (a text, a song etc).

Originally Posted by DDT

I downloaded both of them. The first one, though basic, has the advantage of repeating the words that you get wrong, peiodicaly, throughout the session which increases my ability to absorb the word.
The second program only repeats the words you get wrong until you get it right the first time which doesn't really mean that the word has been learnt.

I believe the Interlex program DOES let you do multiple occurances of the word -- otherwise I'd agree with you that it's not very thorough. You should be able to set up "penalty points" as they call it by going to Options->Question->Penalty Points and checking the box and setting a number.

I have been playing around with the vocab tutor
http://www.superliminal.com/tutor/tutor.htm

It crashes if the text file contains cyrillics so I had to transliterate everything - ugh. Anyway, if anybody is interested in learning some nouns, here is the list I have been studying.

I never learned how to transliterate so I made the following substitutions.
ы = ui
ю = yu
ц = ts
ж = j
- = ь
-- = ъ

I also should have CAPITALIZED the stress, but I was too lazy.

WORD,TYPE,IMPORTANCE,DEFINITION
fermer,noun,7.796572,farmer
povar,noun,6.365934,cook
polyuc,noun,7.513760,pole
promah,noun,8.976242,miss or blunder
protsent,noun,8.976242,per cent
pol,noun,6.893369,floor eg. tile floor
ujas,noun,7.418106,terror
protses,noun,3.252358,process
sklon,noun,9.467017,slope
fason,noun,4.937100,fashion
trap,noun,9.199119,ladder
ugol,noun,7.418106,angle or corner
ugol-,noun,8.354057,coal
trus,noun,8.743625,coward
sklad,noun,6.893369,warehouse
sled,noun,6.416333,footstep
poroshok,noun,8.857511,powder
ubuitok,noun,7.531572,loss or damage
tros,noun,9.103292,cable
prohod,noun,8.976242,passage
sluh,noun,6.590509,hear
polden-,noun,6.893369,afternoon
turist,noun,4.810495,tourist
pod--em,noun,9.122607,rise
porez,noun,8.309955,cut
pokoi,noun,8.976242,rest
proigruish,noun,6.893369,loss or failure
protivnik,noun,8.022871,opponent
pozor,noun,8.153757,shame
skachok,noun,6.655417,jump
tur,noun,8.355790,tour
sluga,noun,7.506268,servant
slon,noun,10.000000,elephant
tuman,noun,7.546241,mist
udar,noun,6.320694,shock
povelitel,noun,7.380757,lord
topot,noun,8.976242,stomp
sluchai,noun,7.643290,case
pol,noun,7.790414,sex eg. male or female
hleb,noun,8.976242,bread
poisk,noun,5.335232,search

Forget what I said in the previous post.

I downloaded Interlex last night http://www.vocab.co.uk/download.htm
and it is far better. It accepts cyrillics, it has tons of preloaded words separated by category so you do not have to make your own vocab lists. The option is still available to create your custom lists. Its the best thing since sliced хлеб.

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Forget what I said in the previous post.

I downloaded Interlex last night http://www.vocab.co.uk/download.htm
and it is far better. It accepts cyrillics, it has tons of preloaded words so you do not have to make your own vocab lists separated by category. The option is still available to create your custom lists. Its the best thing since sliced хлеб.

Just FYI, you can get more vocab lists, by subject here: http://www.vocab.co.uk/exchange.htm