Cardhopper      computer aided learning     

Creative learning on PC or PDA - free to download and easy to use software

How to best prepare the questions and answers

Learning and having fun? Unbelievable! Take into consideration - winning always is fun and you can win new knowledge, or impress your loved ones with never again forgetting birthdays or other special days!

The "flow of the index cards" is the secret.

One questions tends to always go back to box 1? Check your question - if it is too complex, make two out of one.
One question goes straight through and out and when you need the answer you still do not know it - your boxes probably do not have enough questions.

Think about your questions before preparing your cards.

You will have to prepare the text file anyway. Why not give it a thought more? Your questions will be well-planned and this is the first step of learning.

Everybody has a different learning behavior - do experiment and be creative.

Learning vocabulary certainly is one possible use. Cardhopper provides you with an information text field. Why not put there how to pronounce the word(s) or a word to word translation (Birkenbihl method)? Latter may sound a bit strange, but helps you unconsciously to learn the structure of the target language.