After having activated the Flash Cards on the Practice Mode section and having pressed on the Start Practice... icon in the toolbar the following screen shows up. The Flash Cards Training Mode works just as if you would do it with “real” flash cards. You imagine the result and should you wish some help, you can press on the button, which will start to give you the result one letter at a time.
You can also decide to skip a word for now. When you press the button, the word will show up again at a later time.
Pressing on the button reveals the solution. At this stage you then have to tell if you knew the answer.
If you did not know it, press the button. If you did remember the answer, press the button.
This will take you to the next question.
On the left hand side bottom of the screen you have 7 boxes that show how good you know the vocabulary. These 7 boxes correspond to the blocking levels set under Blocking page in the Configure Practice dialog.
Tip
Instead of pressing the button, you can also use the Space key.
You can stop practicing anytime by pressing on the button.
Mixed Letters is a training method that provides you with an immediate help: all letters that are part of the solution are shown mixed up:
Should you wish some help, you can press on the button, which will give you the solution one letter at a time. Of course you can also decide to by pressing on that button.
To give the answer type it in the blank field below the mixed letters and press the Enter key or button.
If your answer was correct Parley will tell you so and you can press Enter again or press on the button to go ahead with the next question.
Should you enter a wrong answer, you will be told to try again:
If you don't know the answer, just press on the button a second time. Then the following comes up and you are shown the solution. Go ahead with .
You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.
In Multiple Choice mode you are shown a number of potential answers, of which only one is correct. By pressing on the button, Parley excludes one of the wrong answers so that your choice gets more and more restricted with each further press on . The answer is revealed when only one option is left and the question is counted as wrong. Of course you may also choose the button.
Once you made your choice by clicking on what you believe to be correct or type the number in front of the choice, Parley shows up with the screen below if the answer was right. Go ahead with the next question by pressing on the button.
If your answer instead was wrong, the correct answer will be shown in green and the wrong one in red. Also here you go ahead by pressing on the button.
You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.
If you wish to stop practice, just press on the button.
Normally Parley automatically proposes one correct and several wrong answers in Multiple Choice mode. For some exercises instead you will have preset answers like yes/no or similar. And for these you have to configure the practice by selecting the Configure Practice... icon in the toolbar.
Select the Specific page and you will get something very similar to the following screenshot:
If you have just two choices like yes/no in the section Multiple Choice set the Number of choices: to 2
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When you select the option Written to do your practice you are supposed to type in the solution. You can use the button, which will start to give you the result one letter at a time. Of course you can also decide to by pressing on that button.
Once you have entered the solution, press on the button and Parley will show whether your answer was correct. Go ahead by pressing on again.
Should you give a wrong answer, you may try again several times to find the right answer. If you don't try again, and just press on the button, the solution will be shown.
Go ahead practicing by pressing on or stop by pressing on the button .
You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.
You can reset all your practice scores (remove the confidence levels) to the initial state. You can reset your confidence levels for individual units from within the Practice Overview icon in the toolbar and by clicking with mouse button on the unit to reset and choosing or by choosing .