This CDROM title is a practical and systematic self-study course for all levels in learning Chinese characters. Each character flashcard contains traditional form, simplified form, Hanyu Pinyinm, Zhuyin Fuhao, strokes, animated stroke sequence, radical, English meaning, phrases and sentences. If one knows these history of characters, one will be able to recognize 99 percent of all Chinese characters published in various media. In addition, the CDROM includes such special features as history of characters, stroke order, character components, plentiful exercises, and lots more. The program is designed to improve the learner's reading ability and quickly build up phrases, idioms, and sentences using the 3,000 characters.
This CDROM is available in the Chinese Program, and the learners who are interested in it can come and use it in the self-study center in our teaching building..
There are 3 integrated parts of the Clavis Sinica program which are specially designed to help learners overcome the obstacle in reading any Chinese text:
1) Providing one-click access to the pronunciation and meaning of any unfamiliar word.
2) Helping you understand why characters are written the way they are, and how they relate to each other as part of a consistent, logical system. Fully cross-referenced lexical database is available to assist learners to analyze the character into its constituent parts, what each of those parts contributes to either the sound or the meaning of the whole, what other characters incorporate these same parts, or how the whole character, in turn, is incorporated into commonly used compounds, phrases, and idioms.
3) The list builder allows you to create customized vocabulary lists from any Chinese text. You can then convert these lists into flashcards for use orr you can print them out as review sheets for later study.
It constitutes a unique, multimedia Chinese language learning system that integrates the familiarity of typing with a detailed, individual performance analysis into an easy-to-use, computer-friendly format that makes learning Mandarin Chinese easy, enjoyable, and effective. It introduces high-frequency, common, and “everyday-type” Chinese words and employs a “spiral format” that builds on previously taught vocabulary while only introduces twelve new characters at a time.