Step into Chinese
Step Into Chinese is a language-mining tool to assist English
speakers seeking to understand the Chinese language. The lack of a
one-to-one correspondence between Chinese characters and the
corresponding Pinyin is often regarded as the greatest difficulty
facing learners of Chinese. Step Into Chinese aims to address this
difficulty.
Inside is an extensively cross-referenced data structure which
allows the user to pursue deeper understanding of contexts, for
example, by "locking on" to a particular Pinyin context and viewing
successive instances of the same morpheme used in similar contexts.
The user can also "lock on" to English words in the Pinyin
translations, English words in the collective phrase translations, and
even unicode strings used to represent Chinese characters in either
traditional or simplified representations.
Frequency information relative to the number of occurances of
each Pinyin morpheme, in each context throughout the data structure, is
displayed for each entry.
Step into Chinese
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Price
Free to download
Size
5.7MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Charles B. Cossé
Website
www.asymptopia.org
System Requirements
Pygame
Support
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Features include:
- Extensive cross-referenced data structure with over 26,000
modern Chinese words and concepts involving over 8,300 separate Chinese
characters
- Ability to lock-onto particular character or word and view
its usage in various contexts
- Ability to create and save flashcards
- Display mode: Singles, Traditional, and Simplified
- Flashcard style: Pinyin, Translation, Traditional, and
Simplified
- Online help system for keyboard shortcuts
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Last Updated Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 05:04 PM EDT
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