First off, I would like to say that I really like Pleco and the enormous gains it gives me in being portable and feature rich. The reader is amazing and all the dictionaries are superb.
I was trying to make some flashcards with just a list of chinese characters and realised how difficult that was. At least compared to the desktop learning tool I have been using - Pingrid (and Pablo)http://ehaton.blogspot.com/. The structure is very different. All I need to do with Pingrid is open the file with the list I want to learn. The pinyin and definitions are automatically taken from CC-CEdict. Where this would differ from Pleco using just one dictionary is that when there are multiple pinyins / meanings. Pingrid just merges all the different pinyin and meanings together to give the character as full a description as possible. Below is Pingrid training the third 100 most frequent characters. All I did to create this file was to copy characters number 201 to 300 from excel into notepad. Open with Pingrid and away with learning I go - at a desktop.
On Pleco, I could choose 'Use First' but this has given meaningless definitions that do not allow me to know which character is meant. Using Prompt would make me go through labouriously through many definitions which I would rather be merged, as the character means all of those and that is how I want to learn it. To make things worse, the definition is in a small area of the screen even when I use the portrait orientation where there is lots of space.
I wish Pleco could just open a list and allow me to spend the time in learning rather than in making the cards meaningful or making this post. Importing is cumbersome. There should be an option to merge pinyins and definitions from selected dictionaries. Just opening a list of characters is quick and efficient - let Pleco merge things from user selected dictionaries.
To solve the problem of user progress data, Pingrid uses a separate simple txt file that list characters that have been presented before with the date time of when they should appear next, and the number of times they have appeared etc. So it doesn't matter what list I open, if there are characters in it that I already know well, they won't show up until the time is due. I could edit the file to bring characters forward of backwards. eg
!newword 1 最近 r
!newword 1 往前 r
!newword 0 多长
!newword 0 很多
2010.03.16'02:28:50 6 医 r
2010.03.16'06:19:46 6 常常 r
2010.03.16'08:09:01 6 医生 r
2010.03.17'06:09:03 7 男 r
2010.03.17'10:03:43 6 爸爸 r
2010.04.05'21:00:35 2 星期
Am I doint something wrong in flashcard creation? I've read quite a lot of the online manual.
Could the flashcards be made easier? ie just a plain list eg
解
水
名
真
论
处
走
义
各
入
Thanks.
I was trying to make some flashcards with just a list of chinese characters and realised how difficult that was. At least compared to the desktop learning tool I have been using - Pingrid (and Pablo)http://ehaton.blogspot.com/. The structure is very different. All I need to do with Pingrid is open the file with the list I want to learn. The pinyin and definitions are automatically taken from CC-CEdict. Where this would differ from Pleco using just one dictionary is that when there are multiple pinyins / meanings. Pingrid just merges all the different pinyin and meanings together to give the character as full a description as possible. Below is Pingrid training the third 100 most frequent characters. All I did to create this file was to copy characters number 201 to 300 from excel into notepad. Open with Pingrid and away with learning I go - at a desktop.
On Pleco, I could choose 'Use First' but this has given meaningless definitions that do not allow me to know which character is meant. Using Prompt would make me go through labouriously through many definitions which I would rather be merged, as the character means all of those and that is how I want to learn it. To make things worse, the definition is in a small area of the screen even when I use the portrait orientation where there is lots of space.
I wish Pleco could just open a list and allow me to spend the time in learning rather than in making the cards meaningful or making this post. Importing is cumbersome. There should be an option to merge pinyins and definitions from selected dictionaries. Just opening a list of characters is quick and efficient - let Pleco merge things from user selected dictionaries.
To solve the problem of user progress data, Pingrid uses a separate simple txt file that list characters that have been presented before with the date time of when they should appear next, and the number of times they have appeared etc. So it doesn't matter what list I open, if there are characters in it that I already know well, they won't show up until the time is due. I could edit the file to bring characters forward of backwards. eg
!newword 1 最近 r
!newword 1 往前 r
!newword 0 多长
!newword 0 很多
2010.03.16'02:28:50 6 医 r
2010.03.16'06:19:46 6 常常 r
2010.03.16'08:09:01 6 医生 r
2010.03.17'06:09:03 7 男 r
2010.03.17'10:03:43 6 爸爸 r
2010.04.05'21:00:35 2 星期
Am I doint something wrong in flashcard creation? I've read quite a lot of the online manual.
Could the flashcards be made easier? ie just a plain list eg
解
水
名
真
论
处
走
义
各
入
Thanks.