Quizlet: Online Flashcards for Language Learning

Today I'm giving a presentation to the language faculty at St. Olaf about the use of the online Quizlet flashcards.  Above is the Google Docs presentation that I'm going to use during my talk.  We found Quizlet last summer and have created approx. 80 flashcard sets for Beginning Norwegian I (Sett i gang I) and 40 sets for Intermediate Norwegian I (Stein på stein I). In general, we emphasize more global skills and learning the language in larger segments in our courses, but there is a place for focusing on the details as well.  We have found that Quizlet makes the mundane parts of language learning more fun as well as more efficient.

Users do not have to register to use the Quizlet flashcards that are already online.  However, if they complete the free registration, then they can create their own sets, form groups and join other groups, customize the special characters, and keep track of their studying progress.