¤ Preloaded with several study lists, including all HSk words, the 1600 most frequently used words in Chinese newspaper and many more.
¤ Annotation tools for texts. Copy and paste your Chinese text with simplified or traditional characters and move the mouse over the text for direct translation of the words. You can add pinyin to the characters, save your texts, have all words in the text as a list with pinyin and translation in the end of the text etc.
¤ Words stored in study lists with Piles functions.
¤ Each word can be marked as known or unknown to help you focus on the words you need to practice the most.
¤ Combine words. You can easily combine words from your different lists. You can add words to an existing list or create a new list and take the words you want from you other lists. Since every word is classified with a marker for how well you know the word, you can easy create list with just e.g. word you have had a hard time to remember. The new list can be used in all tests, used for printing flash cards etc.
¤ Download study lists. From our server you can download study lists and upload your own study list to share with others.
¤ Create and edit own study lists. It is easy to create new study lists with the help of our build in Chinese text editor.
¤ Chinese text to voice function. You can listen to your words in Chinese. You can copy and past texts from Chinese sites or word documents and let the software read it for you in Chinese. This function enables you to listen to every word in your study lists etc.
¤ Chinese auto translator. Can be used when you are reading texts on the Internet or in Word documents. Highlight a word and let the software look it up for you in the dictionary, with Chinese text to voice etc. You can also save the word directly to your study list for later studying.
¤ Build in Chinese talking dictionary. Search on English, pinyin, character, radical, strokes etc. Words found can be saved to your study lists.
¤ Create wav or MP3 sound files from our study list. Create a sound file to listen in your car or in your MP3 player. Records both the Chinese word and the English translation.
¤ Compounds. When adding new character/words to your study lists you can let the software present other words with that character. You choose if you want to save those extra words or not to a separate stud list.
¤ Save dialogues or texts. You can save dialogues with up to four different speakers. When reading a saved text you can move the mouse the mouse over the characters and have the words translated to English and with the correct Pinyin given. With Chinese text to voice. Texts can be saved with just one button click.
¤ Stroke animations. For characters in your study list, the dictionary, texts etc you can view stroke order animations. We are adding new stoke order animations as fast as we can. You can easily download new animations from our server. The animation shows you the correct stroke order and the radical part of the character.
¤ Study words. When you have a study list there are several tests and study tools to use. You can be tested on pinyin, write the character, listen and choose the correct pinyin, drag a translation to the correct character and more. When studying the words you automate the work and let the software present new words in the speed you choose, random or in the order you choose.
¤ Radicals and measure words. Since those are essential parts of the Chinese language there are separate lessons with those.
¤ Print flash cards and study lists. To help you better study even when not sitting in front of your computer there are functions to print your study lists on paper or as flash cards with characters on one side and translation and pinyin on the other.
¤ Export your study lists to textfiles or as XML.
¤ Import your own study lists from word or textfiles.
We are working on several more add on functions to this tool. Updates are always free of charge for registered users!