Using images with Core?

xiows New member

Registered: 2011-12-17 Posts: 3

Hi,

I am working my way through Core 6K. The decks I have do not have the images that used to be on the smart.fm site.

I wanted to ask those who have done this already whether they found the images helped or not. I have just started to test it out by google/image-ing the vocab word and finding a suitable image to put on manually. However, this takes a bit of time and can add up when done for each card (I am adding quite a lot of new vocab cards a day). Whilst this may be aiding my memory/association, it may also be a lot of procrastinatory busy work.

In your opinion did the accompanying images help at all, is this worth continuing?

Kuma01 Member

From: The Netherlands Registered: 2011-02-07 Posts: 120

For me it seemed to work as well as the keyword association wise after seeing it so many times on each card. But I honestly don't think it helps you remember, atleast I never noticed any retention differences between decks.

ryuudou Member

Registered: 2009-03-05 Posts: 406

I don't think so. This is just speculation, but if anything having images can serve as a "memory crutch" before the cards are mature, and in real-life context without the image you might have a harder time.

If you're interested I think images for the Core 2k deck are linked in Nukemarine's stickied guide thread. Maybe you could experiment with those.

JapanesePod101 Sponsor

Index » General discussion