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The most popular chinese flash cards |
Requirements
- Java runtime 1.5 or higher
- Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98) , Mac OS X or Linux platform.
Main features
- cross-platform application (Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT), Mac OS X, Linux
- available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese,
- dictionary specifically designed for beginners and mid-learners (*),
- decomposition of each character in its radical components,
- character pronunciation (native mandarin voice),
- hand written character recognition,
- 4 learning strategies (discovery, visual recognition, manual writing, hearing),
- essential information on a character (stroke number, pinyin, radical decomposition, meaning, category, commentary, memorizing tips) are displayed in a flash card,
- display of all the characters at a glance,
- management of personal flash cards and personal character lists,
- traditional or simplified character visualisation,
- printable flashcards,
- searchable database (by "writing it with the mouse, "radicals", "meaning", "pinyin", "commentary" or "memorizing tips"),
- customizable chinese character font,
- 3 cards visualisation orders: random, ascending, descending,
- more than 39 character filters (radical, non radical, pictogram, etc),
- graphically close characters selection,
- character type statistics,
- radicals tab,
- automatic cards displaying (automatic navigation mode),
(*) The MyChineseFlashCards dictionary :
MyChineseFlashCards's goal is to help beginners or mid-level learners in chinese to be able to read a newspaper. Instead of providing a traditional dictionary, we chose to design a dictionary specifically designed to reach that goal. This dictionary has the following features:
- only the 1,500 most usual characters, are provided. These characters are normally enough to be able to read a Chinese newspaper and understand most of its contents. Thus, the learner doesn t waste time learning rarely used characters,
- the characters are sorted from the most frequently used character to the less frequently used,
- new characters are introduced only in combination with characters already learned. Benefits are twofold: learning the new combination is much easier. Besides, the review of the characters already learned helps the memorisation,
- the history of the character and the category it belongs to is provided, helping the student to memorize it.
Features to be implemented in the future
In the future, the following features will be added :
- dictionary printing,
- dynamic character drawing.
