Where can I buy flash cards?

mimerim · **Posted:** Wed 11 Apr 2012 3:21 pm

Anyone familiar with the flash cards available to print on talkirish.com?
Does anyone know where I could buy a set of already printed cards like these?

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 3001

mimerim wrote:

Anyone familiar with the flash cards available to print on talkirish.com?
Does anyone know where I could buy a set of already printed cards like these?

I like Flash my Brain

http://www.flashmybrain.com/

They have flashcards made by people in many languages. The Irish section is extremely small.
The best feature is you can make your own cards.
I use them for Welsh.
(not sure how good their after sale service is though, but I've never had a problem with the software)

Aislingeach · **Posted:** Wed 11 Apr 2012 9:50 pm

I assume you mean purchase a box of them rather than print them out? If so, the only ones I have seen are these:

http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/catalo ... fc&id=1715

You can also get them through Amazon, and a much better product description (word list, etc.) can be found here:

http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Words-Fl ... 0746067933

franc 91 · **Posted:** Thu 12 Apr 2012 11:23 am

If you want to, you can buy flash cards in English or any other language for that matter, and stick the words in Irish on them. I also happen to make my own, as well as card games, dominoes and board games and so on for teaching English (but I do some in Irish as well) - you can cut up the pictures that you find in all that publicity that you get in the letterbox from the supermarkets. There is however one big drawback with flashcards and that is that there's no sound with them. Usborne do in fact publish in France in French. The ones I recommend are called 'Je découvre l'anglais' because they're not just vocabulary cards but they have simple dialogues as well (English on one side of the card and French on the other) and it says on the pack - with pronunciation on the Internet - which you can get on their Quicklinks website. Well if someone could try and nudge Foras na Gaeilge perhaps they could do the same for the Irish flashcards. Meanwhile there are the various educational websites that deal with the teaching of Irish that do offer theme-based materials. When I find them, I post them up in the Useful Links Section - unfortunately sometimes the pronunciation isn't up to standard ie it's Urban or as they say here - Dublin 4. There's quite a lot you can find on YouTube in the way of visual flashcards with the sounds. It's a pity that there don't seem to be any children's learning magazines in Irish, which are such a valuable resource in English, French and other languages - what we call para-scolaire in French.

mimerim · **Posted:** Thu 12 Apr 2012 4:23 pm

The Usborne ones are exactly what I'm looking for. It's a pity there's only 50 cards in the set! But it's enough to get me started and see if they work.

Good idea to buy English ones and add the Irish. I should have thought of that... :rofl:

Printing my own is just so time consuming. But I'll remember Flash My Brain if the Usborne ones end up working better than my little memo book I carry around and peek at during the day. Then taking the time to print them might be time well spent. Thanks everyone!

Scooby · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 7:18 pm **Posts:** 576

On the Amazon site you can get a limited preview. Why does it say Féileacán with a picture of a flower over it on page two? Have they been using 'word of the day' on IGTF?

Aislingeach · **Posted:** Thu 12 Apr 2012 6:08 pm

Scooby wrote:

On the Amazon site you can get a limited preview. Why does it say Féileacán with a picture of a flower over it on page two? Have they been using 'word of the day' on IGTF?

Damn! I never thought to look at the pictures. :bash:

Breandán · **Posted:** Thu 12 Apr 2012 6:58 pm

I have made thousands of cards over the years for many languages including Japanese and Irish. In the end I switched from making cards to making short lists on pocket sized cards. I still have a couple of boxes of them in storage.

What I eventually found out though is that the process of looking up the words and writing them down was more important and beneficial than actually learning from the cards themselves. I found Foclóir Póca had about the right volume of information to make the process useful. When I was studying that way, I would write out the examples under each entry and also write out the declensions of the nouns in full.

If it's for your own study, writing on the English cards would be more beneficial than buying a set of ready-made cards. (If you were using them to make a class interesting, etc., though, that would be a different matter.)

mimerim · **Posted:** Fri 13 Apr 2012 3:29 am

Breandán wrote:

What I eventually found out though is that the process of looking up the words and writing them down was more important and beneficial than actually learning from the cards themselves.

So very true. If I don't write it down at least once, it's hopeless. My little memo book serves well for this.

Breandán wrote:

If it's for your own study, writing on the English cards would be more beneficial than buying a set of ready-made cards. (If you were using them to make a class interesting, etc., though, that would be a different matter.)

I'm trying to spark more interest in my 4-year-old. He's started saying stuff like, "That's enough, mom," when I'm asking him the words we're learning.

Breandán · **Posted:** Fri 13 Apr 2012 3:35 am

Ah, learning through teaching. 'Tis a good method.

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