Bug 170558

Summary:	possibility to only practice N word from lesson
Product:	[Applications] parley	Reporter:	Oliver Putz <Regnaron>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Parley Developers <parley-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ansa.ansa, inge
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Oliver Putz 2008-09-06 21:53:31 UTC

Version:           0.9.1 (using 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.1), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7

Imagine the following use Case: When you enter vocabularies you separate them into three or four categories (lessons): verbs, nouns, and so on. This means that your lessons can easily become quite huge. Thus, when you want to practice e.g. the verbs you have a practice session with possibly thousands of words in it.

I would suggest a setting like "Configure Practice -> Advanced -> Active entries during practice" where you can say how many of the words in the current lesson should be used for the upcoming practice session. (e.g. a practice session that is a subset of 20 or 50 or 100 or however many vocabularies from the currently selected lesson.)
This would also come in handy if you just want to learn / repeat all words in multiple small chunks over the next couple of weeks (regardless of any particular order [lessons])

Comment 1 Ansa 2012-11-25 21:19:41 UTC

This can be partly solved with the feature that divides a given lesson into sublessons of given sizes.

However, the requested feature would also be extremely useful when lots of vocabulary accumulate for revision---it would choose only the given number of entries for the current session. For example, these could be chosen as the entries that would expire soonest (which would basically mean that entries on low levels would be chosen with priority, but if some entry on a high level has not been practiced for so long that its expiry date is very soon, then it would be chosen instead). Thus, when it happens that a large number of items need to be revised, this feature has two advantages:
- it helps to concentrate on the entries that are most likely to be forgotten soon, which is not necessarily the same as the entries on the lowest levels;
- if some entry is answered incorrectly, it comes up within the same short session---as opposed to just starting the revision practice with all words that have accumulated and simply ending it after N words have been answered correctly.

Comment 2 Inge Wallin 2014-04-11 07:35:17 UTC

Hey, this is done now.  :)

It's in master and will be released with KDE applications 4.13.  You can configure it in the "configure training" dialog in the "General" tab under "Sessions".