A Few Examples of the "Foreign Language Vocabulary Builder" (FLVB)

Compare the 3 Online Versions

• Here are the 3 versions of the program using the same English-English data.
  • Flash A: Opposites Flash with the Correct Answer Required
  • Flash B: Opposites Flash with Multiple-choice, Flashcards and Matching
  • JavaScript: Opposites JavaScript
• Here are the 3 versions of the program using the same Chinese-English data.
  • Flash A: Continents (8) Flash with Correct Answer Required
    Flash A has multiple-choice questions that you must answer correctly before moving on.
  • Flash B: Continents (8) Flash with Multiple-choice, Flashcards and Matching
    Flash B has another kind of multiple-choce questions, and also has flashcards and matching.
  • JavaScript: Continents (8) JavaScript
    The quiz template we have been using since the beginning. If you are using an iPad or other device that doesn't support Flash, you can use these.

Examples of Multiple-choice, Flashcards & Matching

• Two-field Data
  • Bulgarian-English
    • Days (7) Violeta Tsoneva
  • Chinese-English
    • Continents (8)
  • Czech-English
    • Clothes (18)
  • Finnish-English
    • Emotions (23) H. S. Longstroth
  • French-English
    • Christmas (26)
  • German-English
    • Numbers (21)
  • Italian-English
    • Days (7)
  • Russian-English
    • Adjectives Related to Personality (51)
  • Thai-English
    • School Subjects

• Three-field Data
  • Arabic-English
    • Bank - Perhaps it's right-to-left causes the "bug" in this one.
  • Japanese-English
    • Words for Academic Purposes - Level 8 (61) (with Hiragana)
    • Commonly-used Japanese Words (1,554) (with Romaji)
  • Korean-English
    • People (12)

Help

• How to Format the Data

Examples of Multiple-choice with Correct Answer Required

• Students must always get the correct answer before moving to the next question.

• Two-field Data
  • Bulgarian-English
    • Days (7) Violeta Tsoneva
  • Chinese-English
    • Continents (8)
  • Czech-English
    • Clothes (with Flashcards and Matching) Same words with more options.
  • Finnish-English
    • Emotions (23) H. S. Longstroth
  • French-English
    • Christmas (26)
  • German-English
    • Numbers (21)
  • Italian-English
    • Days (7)
  • Russian-English
    • Adjectives Related to Personality (51)
  • Russe-Français
    • 700+ Words
  • Thai-English
    • School Subjects

• Three-field Data
  This program still has problems with 3-field data. Sometimes, you have to click the answer twice to get it to work.
  • Japanese-English
    • Words for Academic Purposes - Level 8 (61) Kelly Quinn
    • Commonly-used Japanese Words (1,554)
  • Korean-English
    • People (12)

Brief History

• I began programming this kind of thing in the early 1980s.
• I've written similar programs in various computer languages on Commodore, NEC 9801, Apple ][ and Macintosh.
• On the Web, I've written various versions of this in Flash and JavaScript.