Today in China

Are Quizlets the next evolution of Flashcards? On Quizlet.com you may start to learn vocabularies in a wide range of different languages; amongst them: Chinese.

While the Quizlets provided for for Chinese are still very limited, you might want to take a look and maybe help the community by providing vocabulary lists from your own Chinese lessons.

Here is the mission statement of Andrew Sutherland, the guy behind Quizlet.com:

My mission for Quizlet is to make learning vocabulary not a chore. I know a lot of teachers assign vocabulary to students, but few students actually “absorb” words into their vocabularies after they take their test. Which kind of defeats the purpose, right? So Quizlet is my response - it aims to make learning fun, thus make learning effective. At the very least, it can help students do better on quizzes and tests even if they don’t fully “absorb” their words.

And here is the explanation about how it works:

1. You enter a vocabulary list of any words or data you want. (ex. SAT words, history dates, French-Spanish translations, etc.)
2. Quizlet gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates to help you study those words.
3. You ace your test.

Couldn’t be easier!