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User since 2008
Posts: 1

9 Aug. 2009

My question: If I know the right translation which button I have to use:
"No need to review" or
"I knew it"

Bernd Christmann

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AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
10 Aug. 2009

The five options for answering are graduated.
No need to review -> I presume the expression will never come back.
I knew it -> I take it as "I knew it but I wouldn't mind getting it again one of these days."
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I didn't know -> I noticed it showed up in the very next lesson.
The five options for answering are graduated. No need to review -> I presume the expression will never come back. I knew it -> I take it as "I knew it but I wouldn't mind getting it again one of these days." ... ... I didn't know -> I noticed it showed up in the very next lesson.
Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
14 Aug. 2009

Hallo Bernd,
it depends on your desire to meet the words again.
If you're a surgeon you surely aren't too fond of medical vocabulary. If you are an accounter you certainly need the special accounting vocabulary just once.
But as a journalist, an artist, a child, a story teller you're perhaps so interested in all fields of life, that you would like to read the words again and again after weeks or months, enjoying the fact that you always know the right translation.
Hallo Bernd, it depends on your desire to meet the words again. If you're a surgeon you surely aren't too fond of medical vocabulary. If you are an accounter you certainly need the special accounting vocabulary just once. But as a journalist, an artist, a child, a story teller you're perhaps so interested in all fields of life, that you would like to read the words again and again after weeks or months, enjoying the fact that you always know the right translation.

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