How to Learn Spanish Fast with Flashcards on the iPhone

Besides total immersion (which not everyone has the money or the time for) the next best thing is to memorize spanish vocabulary word lists.
The fastest way to master a spanish word list is to turn your list into a deck of flashcards. The age-old problem with flashcards is that they
can be a pain to manage. With an iPhone app, you don’t have to manage the flashcards. Plus you can do your studying anywhere, at any time.

There is a well-known method for studying with flashcards called the Leitner Cardfile System.
The basic idea is pretty simple. Here is how it works:

First, you make three or more boxes for your flash cards.

reproduced from Wikipedia.org

Each box or stack has a name.

1. unseen
2. got right once
3. mastered

Your mission is to get all your cards into the last box. The Mastered pile.

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Each time you sit down, select a few cards from each box. Select a lot of cards from the first box. Select a bunch, but not as many from the next.
Select a few less from #3. And select just a small handful from the mastered pile, for review.

Now flip through the cards. If you get one that originated from the unseen pile right, promote it to the next box. If you get one right from box #2, promote it to box #3 and so on.
But if you get one wrong, it goes all the way back to box #1.

That’s the catch. If you get the card wrong, it goes all the way back to box #1 — the unseen pile — where it starts again.

Doing this process manually, without the aid of a computer can be a pain in the neck. That’s why we’ve written our Spanish Flashcards iPhone app. It keeps track of all this box ordering for you.
All you need to do is “deal a deck” of cards and start flipping.

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