Anyone familiar with late iKnow study?

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Reply #1 - 2009 January 17, 2:08 pm
cloudstrife543 Member
From: tallahassee Registered: 2008-10-26 Posts: 82

Is anyone deep into iKnow to tell me what difficulty the sentences become? The reason I ask is because the "steps" are ranked on difficulty like intermediate, advanced, etc.

I guess my question is does the sentence grammar scale with that difficulty note? Or does that difficulty put next to each 'step' have to do with something else?

Thanks.

Reply #2 - 2009 January 17, 5:33 pm
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

Why not just click on one of the later ones and look at the sentences yourself?  You don't even need to sign up for the course.

Reply #3 - 2009 January 17, 6:29 pm
tibul Member
From: UK Registered: 2008-07-17 Posts: 110 Website

Cracky is one of the furthest along at these forums i think, but like wccrawford says you can just click on one of the further along courses.

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Reply #4 - 2009 January 17, 7:41 pm
Nukemarine Member
From: 神奈川 Registered: 2007-07-15 Posts: 2347

That's not a completely reasonable answer. See, what's difficult when you start and what's difficult 2000 words in are two different animals.

I think he wants the "what's it like for those that got to the point".

At 1400 in, I think the words are building on each other well. I like it if vocabulary is seen again in other sentences as reinforcement. However, both Cracky and Hashiriya both are commenting that Intermediate lessons are pretty difficult. Still, Cracky is over 3000 studied and 2000 complete and still going strong. For those sentences, no photos were developed which may have added to the difficulty.

Difficult, but not impossible. Kind of like for those that went past the first 400 vocabulary (basic) to the intermediate.

Reply #5 - 2009 January 17, 7:54 pm
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

The words in 2000+ are definitely hard and the sentences often contain several difficult words (I skipped the 2000 first ones so I'm not sure how many of them were mentioned before) but the grammar itself is IMO really easy. Since I'm not a beginner however, I can't really judge how hard it will be for people who finished RtK and then started iKnow... but I THINK Tae Kims guide is more than enough to explain anything that comes up.

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