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Hieroglyph flashcards
Start with the alphabet of one-sound signs, then add the two- and three-sound signs, the determinatives and real words. Say the answer to yourself, flip the card and rate how well you knew it; each card comes back just before you would forget it.
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❓ How the flashcards work
- Pick a deck below. The alphabet is the place to start: the 25 one-sound signs in the order Egyptologists list them.
- Say the answer before you flip. Trying to remember, even when you can’t, is what makes a sign stick.
- Grade each card. Again brings it back in a minute; Hard, Good and Easy send it further out (each button shows when you’ll see it next). This is spaced repetition: cards you know come back after days, then weeks.
- Which side first: Hieroglyph first shows the sign or word and asks for its sound or meaning; Sound or meaning first asks you to recall the sign; Both makes two cards of each.
- Sounds are shown in transliteration with the way Egyptologists say them (“nefer” for nfr) and the Manuel de Codage typing form. Nobody knows exactly how the vowels sounded.
- Keys: Space or Enter flips; 1–4 grade (Again, Hard, Good, Easy); S skips.
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Want the grammar too? These signs and words come from Middle Egyptian I on the Egyptology Ladder, where each one is taught with practice.