Learning a language? Voluntary online DB with sentences

[Henrik in Oslo]

I use Mnemosyne for instance for re-learning German. I find the Cloze-deletion card-type very powerful. 

Using online dictionaries are ok, but I always prefer to see (and laern) the word(s) in a context. I came across this resource http://tatoeba.org/eng/home Provides lots of example sentences in many languages. Looks very promising! Example of how I use it in Mnemosyne 

GER: Nicht für [die] [Schule], s[ondern] für [den] [Spaß] [lernen] wir. 

ENG: We do not learn for school, but we learn for fun.

(after having improved my skills for a while I can of course use (part of) the same sentences for "front to bacK" and vice versa cards)

[Peter Bienstman]

Thanks for sharing this! Now that we're on the topic of useful
resources, I like the concept of http://rhinospike.com , although it
depends on how popular your target language is.

Also, for those of us that don't follow Google+, the development
version now has a new card type Sentence, which is essentially a cross
between Cloze and Vocabulary, and where you can do

Nicht für [die] [Schule:school], s[ondern] für [den] [Spaß:fun]
[lernen:to study] wir.

Peter

[herma...@gmail.com]

Sounds good, Peter, thank you! How do we get that new card type?

[Peter Bienstman]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 08:51:15 PM herma...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sounds good, Peter, thank you! How do we get that new card type?

It will be in the next official release. If you're anxious to try it out, look
through the comments on our G+ page for a link to a dev release.

Cheers,

Peter