Best Systems when Creating Flashcards: Your Thoughts?

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Hello everyone,

 

I’m both a language learner and teacher.

 

I’ve been teaching, creating and using flashcards using spaced repetition for some time now. However, I feel that I could be teaching / creating them in a better way and wonder if you have any useful tips.

 

System

I’m currently working with a two-way strategy:

 

  • Decks for sentences (where I want to use the words myself: SW)
  • Decks for words (where I want to recall meanings if someone else uses them: RL)

 

Flashcard creation

 

L1:L2 language usage

 

I’m regularly unsure of which way is best here. Let’s look at how I advise my learners:

 

Beginners L1:L2 (front:back)

 

 

 

Sabah

 

Öğleden sonra

 

Akşam

 

Gece

 

 

 

 

(in the) Morning

 

(in the) Afternoon

 

(in the) Evening

 

(at) night

 

 

Higher levels L2:L2

 

 

Tiring (adj)

 

 

 

After a tiring day, I like to play games to help me relax.

 

 

Synonym+: exhausting   [L1: yorucu]

 

 

Any level for grammar issues L2:L1

Oh! We don’t have any milk!

 

Ah! Sütümüz yokmuş!

 

 

In this last situation, I’m going from L2:L1 so it’s a reading comprehension exercise essentially. I tried L1:L2 to be able to assist with speaking, but found it was too hard to remember all the grammar structures and got exhausted with making mistakes all the time. I feel that this isn’t the best way.

 

Questions

 

Q1: Is there anything particularly wrong with what I’m doing here?

 

Q2: How could these methods be improved?

 

Thanks so much in advance!

 

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