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VocabuLearn Italian
Italian, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn’s publisher, Penton Overseas, was a victim of the global economic crash. The company no longer exists under that name, but the CDs it used to make are gradually finding new life on the web in the form of…
SparkNotes French Vocabulary Study Cards
French, Flashcards, Vocabulary
These are great. Blue on one side, white on the other, clear print, sturdy, and a good choice of words. Plus inexpensive. Or at least they used to be. Unfortunately, between the time I began this review and the time…
Visual Education Arabic Vocabulary Cards
Arabic, Flashcards, Vocabulary
This product from Visual Education includes 1,000 vocabulary cards, each of which contains an Arabic word, and sometimes additional related words. I used them back in 2009 when I was studying Arabic, and was mystified by some of the choices made in…
Your First 100 Words in Arabic: Beginner’s Quick & Easy Guide to Demystifying Arabic Script
Arabic, Books, Flashcards, Vocabulary
This book by Mahmoud Gaafar is one of a series of similarly titled books for various languages. The concept for the series comes from Jane Wightwick (who also wrote the Easy Arabic Grammar reviewed in this directory).
SparkNotes German Vocabulary Study Cards
German, Flashcards, Vocabulary
Some people are partial to electronic gadgets for their vocabulary-building needs, but in my mind there is nothing like good old-fashioned flashcards. SparkNotes offers great ones in several languages. Or rather, offered. While in the process of writing this review,…
VocabuLearn Arabic
Arabic, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn Arabic comes in two different levels, for a total of six hours of vocabulary instruction. Each level of this product, originally published by Penton Overseas, used to consist of four CDs organized by parts of speech: nouns, adjectives and…
Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary (Second Edition)
French, Books, Vocabulary
I like many of the Practice Makes Perfect books (offered for multiple languages), including their vocabulary books, but I’m afraid this was an exception. The exercise design in Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary just…
Visual Education Chinese Vocabulary Cards
Mandarin, Flashcards, Vocabulary
You can buy these Chinese vocabulary cards directly from the publisher, Visual Education, or from other distributors such as Amazon.com. Each card has both Chinese characters and pinyin on one side, and English on the other. When I…
FlashcardExchange.com
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FlashcardExchange.com claims to be the “world’s largest flashcard library.” It was founded in 2001 by a guy named Culley Harrelson, who was studying for an exam using a giant stack of paper flashcards. Apparently he didn’t find…