Archive for May, 2006
It was a bit harder then I thought it would be, but I have a build of the zdt available for Mac OS X. There are still some issues with the build, for example, they keybindings don’t seem to work properly. But I think the major functionality works.
If you have OS X 10.4.6 installed (or have installed java 1.5 yourself) then please send me an email if you would like to help me test. I’ve only tried this on an Intel based Mac, so I’d like to make sure it works on PowerPC as well.
May 30th, 2006
I just wanted to pass a long a couple of really good links that I recently found out about (from chinese-forums)
Rutgers Multi-Media Chinese Teaching System - There are about 80 lessons and each lessons contains dialogs, vocab, grammar lessons and speech patterns. It also includes audio.
Speak Mandarin Campaign - This site has a bunch of dialogs here with audio (real player though…ugh). They also have several vocabulary lists like Common food items and Common Items in Home and Office that seem like they could be very useful.
May 27th, 2006
Well, I’ve been stuck in jury duty for the past couple weeks and it looks like I still have a few weeks more to go. So not much work has been done and probably won’t be done for a bit.
I did get my new Mac mini a couple of days ago, so hopefully I will have a Mac port of the ZDT out sometime in the near future.
May 19th, 2006
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