Integrated Chinese, 2nd Edition word lists added

Thanks to Andrew Pardoe, the first eleven lessons of the textbook Integrated Chinese, 2nd Edition have been posted.  You can grab them here.

Add comment July 22nd, 2007

ZDT 0.7.0 beta 2 available

It’s been awhile, but the beta version of the next ZDT release is out. If you’re willing to put up with some general bugginess, please check it out and help me test it. You can download it here. Also, thanks to Rocky for some of his help in developing several features.

What’s new since 0.6.1.

Major Features

• Interval flashcard testing. The better you know a flashcard, the less often it gets shown to you. Shamelessly copied from the excellent flashcard program IFlash.
• Custom import. (still a work in progress) You can now import word lists that come in a variety of formats.
• Resume last flashcard session. If you close the program or stop a flashcard session in the middle, you will now have the option to resume from where you left off.
• Multiple sound plugin support. If you have multiple sound plugins installed, they will both be available to you to play. NOTE: The old sound plugin will not work from this version on. Please download the net.sourceforge.zdt.sound.adso or net.sourceforge.zdt.sound.roddy sound plugins instead.
• Roddy sound plugin available. Sounds given to me by Roddy from chinese-forums.com. Male voice, no neutral tones.
• Keyboard hotkeys can be changed via preferences.
• Migrated to the Eclipse 3.3 codebase.

Minor changes

• Categories can now be reordered. (Rocky)
• Manually adding or editing an entry will now accept pinyin with tone marks.
• Definition Test no longer selects an answer by default. No longer have to randomly pick an answer if you don’t know it.
• Number of cards in category is displayed in category view and in editor tabs. (Rocky)
• Flashcard character size can be independently adjusted. (Rocky)
• Many other bugfixes!

Add comment July 18th, 2007

ZDT wiki page

Sourceforge has recently added a wiki function that projects can use so I’m testing it out right now.  The ZDT wiki can be accessed here: http://zdt.wiki.sourceforge.net/ZDT

It’s currently public to everyone, but that might change depending on whether it starts getting spam on it… So feel free to contribute.  I will be expanding it more in the future.

2 comments July 9th, 2007