Flashcard Fish Program?

rich
 January 15, 2008, 11:29 PM posted in General Discussion

Hey all,

I am looking for a resource that I believe was posted on here not long ago, maybe half a year ago.  It was a flashcard game in which fish would swim down the screen and you had to type the pinyin for the character before the fish reached the bottom.  You could use your own text file with Chinese characters.   Anyone know?

Or has anyone got any other good recommendations for character flashcards that one can share with others, and use their own vocabulary files?  Trying to put together something for my class here at Edinburgh for the book we are using.  Thanks! 

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bazza
 January 16, 2008, 12:15 AM

Not sure where to download it now, but it's called WeiLiYu.

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GreyPhoenix
 January 16, 2008, 01:06 AM

http://weiliyu.sourceforge.net/ This looks like the program. Enjoy!

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rich
 January 17, 2008, 05:51 PM

啊，就是那个。谢谢你们！真的给我很多的帮助。 别人有没有electric flashcard的建议？

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GreyPhoenix
 January 24, 2008, 04:48 PM

Rich - I just use cPod's flashcards when it comes to drilling vocab. If you're interested in characters, tho (apparently you are!), I highly recommend Tuttle's "Chinese in a Flash" series (available on Amazon). My character knowledge was very low, and Tuttle's cards are arranged in such a way that I could almost immediately begin writing sentences in Chinese based on prior knowledge (spoken Chinese) and the flashcard-taught characters. It's great!