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Jan

Flashcards gem

Sometime last summer, I visited Prague, Munich and Budapest a few times. Wanting to learn enough conversational German, Czech and Hungarian I had the idea that if I put the words in front of my face repeatedly while doing other tasks, I could learn enough to at least be polite.

The quickest way to do that was to hire a small child to hold up flashcards, but obviously that would have been highly questionable, so I used growl and ruby instead.

I created a quick gem called flashcards instead. Check it out. Assuming you have growl and rubygems