General Discussion - Some suggestions for 'The Fix'
There have been many useful additions to Chinesepod over the past few months, and 'the fix' is one that I especially appreciate. I've been quite busy these days and haven't it used it too often, but I can see the value of it. Reminds me a lot of what I liked about Pimsleur - the interaction with the student is incorporated in the design.
I just used it for the recent Intermediate lesson 'Free Association'. After having completed the online lesson and review in the morning, doing the fix in the evening was a useful refresher and review. As I see it, there are three phases:
(1) vocab drill slowly,
(2) random drill faster
(3) randomized sentence making
I have a few suggestions (which I'm really only basing off of my experience with intermediate level Fixes)
- During Phase 2, all of the words from Phase 1 need to be tested. However, in 'Free Association', 求神拜佛 was not tested in Phase 2. Also, it seems odd that certain words are tested significantly more than others - maybe just a result of your randomization function? For example, in this lesson 烧香,悲伤,状态,and 万万were tested 3-4 times, while others were tested 1-2 times. I can say I won't forget
Posted by foleadu July 31, 2007 in the Group General Discussion.
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