Show HN: Boethius, smart flashcards for the classical liberal arts

https://www.boethi.us/

by virissimo • 6 years ago

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virissimo3• 6 years ago

Boethius (https://www.boethi.us/) is an app I made for my 7yo son to supplement his homeschooling curriculum. It involves completed "daily workouts" of exercises drawn from the seven classical liberal arts (grammar, arithmetic, astronomy, etc...).

The "Try Random Exercise" button lets you see immediately what it's like to use, but signing up is required to get most of the benefits, such as:

* A logical ordering of exercises (learn how to recognize nouns before learning about pronouns, learn what an argument is before learning the difference between validity and soundness, etc...),

* Spaced repetition (you review those you are struggling with most, but those you ace are brought up less frequently over time)

* Configuring your experience (select the number of exercises you need to complete each day for your "daily workout", whether to play audio by default or not, etc..)

* Creating any number of child accounts so you can keep tabs on your kids' progress over time

AMA

schoen• 6 years ago

Fun!

I had a hard with with "collections of nouns are called" (even though what I know what declensions are) because of a lack of context -- I answered "noun classes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class

because that is another kind of collection of nouns that has something important in common grammatically. :-)

I might suggest "collections of nouns that use the same endings" or "collections of nouns that use the same inflections" or something, in order to be less ambiguous.

Tibi gratulor et filio tuo fortunam bonam exopto.

virissimo3• 6 years ago

schoen, thanks for giving it a shot!

You are absolutely right about the declension exercises: they are ambiguous. I'll add more context to the statement when I get back to my workstation.

Gratias tibi!

Show HN: Boethius, smart flashcards for the classical liberal arts

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