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Skritter for English?

OCondliffe   August 13th, 2010 1:52a.m.

Anyone know of a site similar to Skritter for learning English? No need for handwriting recognition, but my students could do with a way of keeping track of their progress, outside of class. Alternatively, a way to adapt Skritter for EFL?

shinyspoons   August 13th, 2010 2:06a.m.

Get them to download Anki - http://ichi2.net/anki/ - it uses Spaced repetition like Skritter so is probally exactly what your looking for and its free.

葛修远   August 13th, 2010 5:29a.m.

+1 for anki!

west316   August 13th, 2010 10:30a.m.

As of two weeks ago, a Chinese friend of mine had a hard time downloading Anki. The site was blocked. She had planned to play around with using it to review her English. When I tried, I couldn't get access to it either. Maybe things are different now, but if your students are in China, then there might be a problem.

OCondliffe   August 14th, 2010 4:34a.m.

Thanks all - I just downloaded it, seems perfect.

P.S. I am in China, I guess they unblocked the site. Shame I can't watch the instructional videos on YouTube without a pr0xy...

jww1066   August 14th, 2010 9:48a.m.

Ehh, you don't need the instructional videos, the Anki wiki is pretty good.

I use Anki a lot. Feel free to email me at jww1066 [at] gmail.com if you have any questions.

James

Shisoik   August 16th, 2010 2:15a.m.

http://www.englishcentral.com

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