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diff --git a/spanish.org b/spanish.org index 387b37a..3e6fcb5 100755 --- a/spanish.org +++ b/spanish.org @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ llamar = to be named # that character is considered to be a `hint', and will remain visible when the # rest of the clozed text is hidden. -# Set the variable `org-drill-use-visible-cloze-face-p' to `t' if you want +# Set the variable `org-drill-use-visible-cloze-face-p' to `t' if you want # cloze-deleted text to be shown in a special face when you are editing org # mode buffers. @@ -59,27 +59,27 @@ To form the plural of a noun ending in a consonant, add [-es] to the end. *** Grammar Rule :drill: -To make the plural of an adjective ending in [a stressed vowel or a consonant +To make the plural of an adjective ending in [a stressed vowel or a consonant other than -z], add /-es/. ** Grammar rules 2 -# An example of a 'multicloze' card. One of the areas marked with square +# An example of a 'hide1cloze' card. One of the areas marked with square # brackets will be hidden (chosen at random), the others will remain visible. *** Grammar Rule :drill: :PROPERTIES: - :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: multicloze + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: hide1cloze :END: -To form [an adverb] from an adjective, add [-mente] to the [feminine|gender] +To form [an adverb] from an adjective, add [-mente] to the [feminine|gender] form of the adjective. ** Vocabulary # Examples of 'twosided' cards. These are 'flip cards' where one of the # first 2 'sides' (subheadings) is presented at random, while all others stay -# hidden. +# hidden. # There is another builtin card type called 'multisided'. These are like # 'twosided' cards, but can have any number of sides. So we could extend the @@ -110,22 +110,15 @@ the cat *** Noun :drill: :PROPERTIES: - :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: twosided + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: hide1cloze :END: -Translate this word. - -**** Spanish - -el perro - -**** English - -the dog +Sp: [el perro] +En: [the dog] **** Example sentence -Cuidado con *el perro*. +Cuidado con *el perro*. Beware of *the dog*. @@ -160,7 +153,7 @@ Translate this word. caliente -**** English +**** English hot @@ -172,11 +165,90 @@ The water is very hot. ** Verbs -# An example of a special card type. The information in "spanish_verb" topics -# can be presented in any of several different ways -- see the function -# `org-drill-present-spanish-verb'. +[[Regular Verb: bailar][Below]] is an example of a complex drill item. The main item is itself a drill +item which tests your ability to translate 'bailar' to and from English (which +direction is chosen at random). + +The item has several child items, some of which contain notes about the verb, +others of which are separate drill items relating to the verb. In this example, +all the child drill items test verb conjugation, and have the 'conjugate' card +type. Which tense to test is specified by the =VERB_TENSE= property in each item, +and the information about the verb is retrieved from the parent's +=VERB_INFINITIVE= and =VERB_TRANSLATION= properties. + +Some of the conjugation items are empty -- this allows the user to past in +conjugations as they are learned. + +Following this item is an [[Old Style Verb][example]] of the "spanish_verb" card type. This is not +as sophisticated or useful as the above example, but is intended to demonstrate +how a function can control which subheadings are visible when an item is +tested. + + +*** Regular Verb: bailar :verb:drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :VERB_INFINITIVE: "bailar" + :VERB_TRANSLATION: "to dance" + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: hide1cloze + :DATE_ADDED: [2011-04-30 Sat] + :END: -*** Verb :drill: +Sp: [bailar] +En: [to dance] (verb) + +**** Notes + +This is a regular verb. + +**** Examples + +Bailé con mi novia. +I danced with my girlfriend. + +**** Present Indicative tense :verb:drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :VERB_TENSE: "present indicative" + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: conjugate + :END: + +| yo | bailo | +| tú | bailas | +| él/usted | baila | +| nosotros | bailamos | +| vosotros | bailáis | +| ellos/ustedes | bailan | + +**** Participles :verb:drill: +Present participle of bailar: [bailando] +Past participle of bailar: [bailado] + +**** Preterite tense :verb:drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :VERB_TENSE: "preterite" + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: conjugate + :END: + +| yo | bailé | +| tú | bailaste | +| él/usted | bailó | +| nosotros | bailamos | +| vosotros | bailasteis | +| ellos/ustedes | bailaron | + +**** Imperfect tense :verb:drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :VERB_TENSE: "imperfect" + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: conjugate + :END: + +**** Future tense :verb:drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :VERB_TENSE: "future" + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: conjugate + :END: + + +*** Old Style Verb :drill: :PROPERTIES: :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: spanish_verb :END: @@ -212,3 +284,30 @@ to sing Regular verb. + +** Random Numbers + +Below is an example of a card that tests the user's ability to translate random +whole numbers to and from a non-English language. For it to work correctly, you +must have the third party library [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/spell-number.el][spell-number.el]] installed and loaded. + +The meaning of the item's properties is as follows: +- =DRILL_LANGUAGE=: any language recognised by spell-number.el. At the time of + writing these include: catalan, danish, dutch, english-eur, english-gb, + english-us, esperanto, finnish, french-fr, french-ch, german, italian, + japanese, norwegian, portuguese-br, portuguese-pt, spanish and swedish. +- =DRILL_NUMBER_MIN= and =DRILL_NUMBER_MAX=: the range between which the random + number will fall. + + +*** Random Number 20-99 :drill: + :PROPERTIES: + :DRILL_NUMBER_MIN: 20 + :DRILL_NUMBER_MAX: 99 + :DRILL_LANGUAGE: spanish + :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: translate_number + :END: + +# This comment is included so that the item body is non-empty. Items with +# empty bodies are skipped during drill sessions. + |