Study Tool

The popup thing doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using Firefox.

Wow! You rock. Thanks for the quick improvements. I love the color coding. I will definitely use this now that it has traditional support.

Ok guys, I added some improvements.

1) Support for traditional characters

2) Simplified characters are colored green, Traditional characters are colored red. Characters that are the same in traditional and simplified form are colored blue.

3) Moving the mouse over a simplified character will show a pop-up with the traditional character (and vice-versa)

4) A button to exclude all at once has been added.

Have fun

Nice work, Nitrox. What a cool idea for an app. Along the lines of what Clay mentioned, I think if you had a 'Select All' button and also turned each x button into a checkbox and then allowed the user to 'Save' many changes with a single postback, it would be sweet from a usability/performance standpoint. I see you're using asp.net which I use daily in my job :-)

Very nice! Thanks for sharing your work with us...

nitrox,

I really like what you put together. If one was able to unselect all the characters you wanted down the list instead of having to do them one by one (and the page refreshing every time) , I would use this program daily.

Great job with the program.

I've excluded 442 characters now. :)

Weixiao, I agree completely. To me, characters look completely different (obviously) on the computer screen than handwritten on paper. As if learning hanzi isn't difficult enough.

Nitrox, thanks so much! Sometimes it's hard being the traditional outcast that no one wants to play with :)

No rush of course.

Nitrox, you are so clever. This is really so helpful. It is now in my bookmarks as I plan to use it often. Now can you figure out one that can measure how many characters you can actually write from memory. I find that reading and writing memory are completely two different entities. Does anyone else have that problem? If I can read the character, why is it so hard to remember how to write it?

calkins, i will probably make a new release supporting traditional hanzi at some point. I just didn't do that so far because I don't plan to learn traditional. But it shouldn't be to hard to add.

frances, i expect the program to not correctly identify all multi-character words. Mainly because the program does not do any semantic analysis of the text, but also because CEDICT does not contain as many entries as some other dictionaries.

Oops. I see you already said that it's CEDICT.

It's very fun. What dictionary are you using? The context column is interesting, though it did not correctly identify all of the multi-character words in my sample text. It did pretty well.

I've excluded 212 characters now. :)

Impressive application! Thanks for sharing nitrox. Would it be too hard to make it work with traditional hanzi?

ah, and thanks you guys for the feedback !!!

Bazza, you seem to have clicked a lot of buttons already :-) My score is 103 so far, which means a few more years of studying ahead of me. By the way: The program uses the free CEDICT dictionary file for the word matching.

This is great for lesson analysis as well.

Thanks for sharing that Nitrox. I will definitely use it.

May i also say without sounding like i have shares in the company (which i do not)

i use NJStar for translating Hanzi and word processing, and it uses pop ups to explain the hanzi and pinyin.

it does however cost money to use,

I just find programs like this utterly invaluable

:)

谢谢！

very neat program!

This is excellent for working out how many characters you already know. I tried it on a chaper of the bible and I've so far excluded 107 characters that I know. :)

hi nitrox,

It is very cool , thank you for sharing this!^_^

That's pretty neat. I think others who are seriously learning/studying Chinese should try it; I did it once just for fun and it's cool. Thanks for sharing.

hi Nitrox

nice litte program for copying and pasting into, :)

very simple and handy

nice job

Phill :)

Wow, that's very cool.