[kde-edu]: Practice with Parley 0.9.4

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi José,

thanks for your feedback, this is really helpful to improve Parley.

On Friday 03 September 2010 20:05:57 José Troncoso wrote:
> First of all, I'd like to thank the developers for their great work on such
> a useful application as Parley. Now, there have been a few changes in they
> way practice is implemented in version 0.9.4 which I'd like to comment on.
> 
> First, the missing paraphrase practice, which I hope is only temporary, as
> I find it most convenient for advanced learners. Indeed, literal word
> translation is very often misleading, so advanced learners often need to
> learn new words by means of a paraphrase. That's why I think that the
> paraphrase practice shouldn't be left out.

Good to hear this is actually used. We discussed a lot about this and found 
nobody that said he or she used the paraphrase practice. It will be back in 
KDE 4.6 then.

> Second, regarding the example paraphrase, I find it confusing having to
> select practice in L1 to practise examples in L2. For example, I have a
> file with words, paraphrases and examples in English and occasional
> translations in Spanish, and I find it confusing having to select Spanish
> to pratise the examples in English.

I agree. We would like to have a certain consistency... so you always practice 
the language that is on the right such as "Spanish to English" in the list.
I wonder what the best way would be.
Another question is whether we should also display the translation of the word 
when practicing example sentences. I'm not sure about that.

> That's it. I hope you'll find my comments helpful. Thanks a lot.
Yes, since this is the first version after major changes, I'm very keen on 
feedback :)

Greetings
Frederik

> 
> Cheers,
> José Troncoso
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