Simple Flashcards

A computer is not just a powerful means of entertainment, being also a solid method of education. Specialized applications aim to help you learn just about anything, without spending too much time looking up things on the web. For instance, Simple Flashcards is an intuitive program which aims to teach you basic English words.

For starters, the application can be launched as soon as download is done, because you’re not taken through a setup process to ensure functionality. More than that, you can use it on other computers directly from a USB flash drive to have this learning tool at hand, without affecting stability because registry entries remain intact.

The whole experience is pretty straightforward. Everything you work with is found in a clean window, which relies on a large font to show source words, which you know or don’t. Every time an answer is provided, the application picks a random, new one from its predefined list.

Unfortunately, there’s absolutely no control over the list of words. This isn’t really a major inconvenience, but considering it only contains basic words, practicality on the long run is highly questionable, because you don’t really get to enhance your vocabulary, or really learn anything new every time.

Score piles up for words you know or don’t, depending on the buttons you press. Sadly, there’s no history tracker to help you view progress, and the application resets the score on exit. A useful function here is the support for Windows voice, which can be activated at the press of a button to learn the pronunciation of the current word.

To sum it up, Simple Flashcards runs on a pretty intuitive concept, which also tracks your current session progress. However, there’s little to learn on the long run because of the rather poor choice of words inside the predefined list you can’t modify or update with new entries.