I read in Gabe Wyner's Fluent Forever that you should avoid at almost all costs using/creating flash cards that use English (or your own native language). I.e. you should create cards with pictures (preferably that you create yourself) on one side and words/sentences in TL on the other. In a nutshell, his argument is that multilingual flashcards merely teach translation which will never produce true fluency because the mental switching involved is slow/clumsy; better to build a direct association between the word (in TL) and the object.
As a practical matter, I've gotten to about 3000 words in my TL and am running into some limitations with this approach:
- I am finding it hard to create unique picture-only flashcards for more complex or nuanced words. E.g. after already creating cards for "flower", "bloom" and "flourish", it's really hard to come up with a unique picture for "blossom".
- I'm not sure I am testing the right type of recall. When the "blossom" card comes up for review, it feels mostly like a test of recalling what I was thinking at the time of creation (was it flower? orchid? tulip? bloom? flourish?) rather than a useful test of the specific word.
What do you think -- do you use multi-lingual flashcards for more complex words or is there a smart way to stick to monolingual even there? Do you find multi-lingual flashcards to be inferior in efficacy? Are there methods, contra Wyner, that achieve fluency using multi-lingual flashcards?
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