Practice

Flash Cards

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 Hint 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 Answer Later button, the word will show up again at a later time.

New word

Pressing on the Continue 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 I Did not Know it button. If you did remember the answer, press the I Knew it 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 Continue button, you can also use the Space key.

New word - confirmation

You can stop practicing anytime by pressing on the Stop Practice button.

Mixed Letters

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:

New word - mixed letters

Should you wish some help, you can press on the Hint button, which will give you the solution one letter at a time. Of course you can also decide to Answer Later 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 Continue button.

If your answer was correct Parley will tell you so and you can press Enter again or press on the Continue button to go ahead with the next question.

New word - mixed letters right

Should you enter a wrong answer, you will be told to try again:

New word - wrong answer, try again

If you don't know the answer, just press on the Continue button a second time. Then the following comes up and you are shown the solution. Go ahead with Continue.

New word - wrong answer, show the right answer

You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.

Multiple Choice

Automatic selection of the possible answers

In Multiple Choice mode you are shown a number of potential answers, of which only one is correct. By pressing on the Hint button, Parley excludes one of the wrong answers so that your choice gets more and more restricted with each further press on Hint. The answer is revealed when only one option is left and the question is counted as wrong. Of course you may also choose the Answer Later button.

New word - Multiple Choice mode

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 Continue button.

New word - Multiple Choice, right answer

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 Continue button.

New word - Multiple Choice, wrong answer

You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.

If you wish to stop practice, just press on the Stop Practice button.

With yes/no answers

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:

Specific page

If you have just two choices like yes/no in the section Multiple Choice set the Number of choices: to 2.

Written

When you select the option Written to do your practice you are supposed to type in the solution. You can use the Hint button, which will start to give you the result one letter at a time. Of course you can also decide to Answer Later by pressing on that button.

New word - Written Practice Mode

Once you have entered the solution, press on the Continue button and Parley will show whether your answer was correct. Go ahead by pressing on Continue again.

New word - Written Practice Mode, right answer

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 Continue button, the solution will be shown.

New word - Written Practice Mode, wrong answer

Go ahead practicing by pressing on Continue or stop by pressing on the button Stop Practice.

You can overrule how your answer is counted. See Practice Overview.

Reset Practice to Initial State

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 right mouse button on the unit to reset and choosing Remove confidence levels from this unit or by choosing Remove confidence levels from this unit and all sub-units.