Internet Vocabulary Training Exercises

Greetings!

This site is meant to replicate on the Internet a means of learning words and phrases in different languages. I have found the technique used in this site to be helpful in learning vocabulary for two reasons:

1. The vocabulary is presented randomly, emulating as nearly as possible the "flash-card" technique.
2. The user may keep score, thus monitoring progress.

Note that this site is not meant to have dictionary capability, rather, words are mapped one-to-one between languages. The French tests use the indefinite article for nouns where the gender would not be given by using the definite article.

The user taking the tests can choose to ignore extended characters (i.e. they would just use the standard 26 characters) so that their answer will be judged correct even if the correct extended character has been left out. They also have the option of enforcing the perfect spelling of the word. If you are not enforcing extended character checking for the German tests, you can type the vowel without the umlaut, or add an e after the vowel to replace it.

The tests work on phones and tablets as well as on computers. You may create your own tests with extended characters on the Create a Test page, practise them right away, or download them as a single file to use on your portable device, even without an internet connection.

If you would like to see the word lists, you can do so by selecting the appropriate test under the Word Lists link.

I would like to emphasize that this is essentially a personal site. I in no way advertise myself to be a language professional (I am not), rather someone who tries (struggles) to keep his vocabulary current. It is as a result of this struggle that I started this site. There is a lot of quality software out there created by professionals that I would encourage you to investigate. That being said, I appreciate very much receiving suggested corrections to the tests.

I would like to thank those who have forwarded enhancement requests and have made suggestions for improvements. The "do not retest correct", "word lists" and "keyboard only" features as well as the "prepositions" test have been implemented as a result of such input. Thanks.

I've added instructions on how to create apps for your Android and iOS portable devices (see Links). This should be of interest to iPhone users in particular, who should now be able to answer questions using their voice and thus practise their pronunciation. You might want to make sure the first letter of your correct answer is capitalized if using the voice method to answer, because the first letter of the word or phrase you speak is always capitalized.

Finally, you may reproduce my tests with your own words, create your own tests through "Create a Test", put them on your site, do whatever you wish to do with them. I ask only that you leave a comment at the top of your HTML code indicating my initial authorship of the test engine.

Thanks for visiting my site, and I hope that you find it useful.

Rene