• Java runtime 1.5 or higher
• Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98) , Mac OS X or Linux platform.

• cross-platform application (Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT), Mac OS X, Linux
• available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese,
• dictionary specifically designed for beginners and mid-learners (*),
• decomposition of each character in its radical components,
• character pronunciation (native mandarin voice),
• hand written character recognition,
• 4 learning strategies (discovery, visual recognition, manual writing, hearing),
• essential information on a character (stroke number, pinyin, radical decomposition, meaning, category, commentary, memorizing tips) are displayed in a flash card,
• display of all the characters at a glance,
• management of personal flash cards and personal character lists,
• traditional or simplified character visualisation,
• printable flashcards,
• searchable database (by "writing it with the mouse, "radicals", "meaning", "pinyin", "commentary" or "memorizing tips"),
• customizable chinese character font,
• 3 cards visualisation orders: random, ascending, descending,
• more than 39 character filters (radical, non radical, pictogram, etc),
• graphically close characters selection,
• character type statistics,
• radicals tab,
• automatic cards displaying (automatic navigation mode),

MyChineseFlashCards's goal is to help beginners or mid-level learners in chinese to be able to read a newspaper. Instead of providing a traditional dictionary, we chose to design a dictionary specifically designed to reach that goal. This dictionary has the following features:

• only the 1,500 most usual characters, are provided. These characters are normally enough to be able to read a Chinese newspaper and understand most of its contents. Thus, the learner doesn t waste time learning rarely used characters,
• the characters are sorted from the most frequently used character to the less frequently used,
• new characters are introduced only in combination with characters already learned. Benefits are twofold: learning the new combination is much easier. Besides, the review of the characters already learned helps the memorisation,
• the history of the character and the category it belongs to is provided, helping the student to memorize it.

In the future, the following features will be added :

• dictionary printing,
• dynamic character drawing.

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