That’s right. After months of blood, sweat and tears. Several false starts, and plenty of wishful thinking, the Audio function of our online Flashcards system has finally been released.
Now you can listen to your flashcards as you review them. Forgot how to pronounce a word? No problem. Just click on the PLAY button and listen. We think this feature makes our online Flashcards system much more rewarding. Load up your Word Bank and try the new Audio function of our online Flashcards System.
Please Note: At the time this post was made more than 3,000 words had been recorded and uploaded to the website. Recordings for all remaining words will be added over the next few weeks.
As always please send us your feedback about this new Premium ChinesePod feature.
Kind Regards,
Matt Park 段伟
This is great.
Is the Flashcard module a custom app developed in-house or modified from a commericial one? I’ve never seen one quite as slick — and (believe me) I’ve been looking.
A great feature. There are still a lot of words missing though but the work involved and the maitenance as you move forward must be an enormous task.
Thnks
Marc
Fu Da Wei,
Thank you for the kind words. We developed this application in house, including all of the recordings (the voice belongs to Zhang Na, one of our production assistants). We are glad this new feature hit the spot. Check out the new Meet The Team photos inside the About Us section of the website.
Marc,
The good news is you only have to make a recording once, the bad news is that you have to make a lot of them. We are slowly working through our database (the academic team keeps coming up with new words) and hope to have things completed soon. Your patience is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Matt Park 段伟
If you guys ever need an extra income stream, you should consider marketing a stripped-down version as a stand alone. I’m not kidding, I’d pay elephant shekels to be able to use this with Hebrew.
Matt and Team
做得好 This along with John’s pronunication guide we now have no excuses. That’s not fair!
Mike in Jubei
When I read this, I went back to the most recent lesson and added some words just so I could try the pronunciation out. What I have been doing with the vocab builder is copying the words to a flashcard program I use, and then deleting the words so I would know what I already added. So, imagine my suprise after adding ni hao and wo de, to open up the flashcards and see I have 650 flashcards. That’s great. I couldn’t figure out how I was going to add all of those. And it looks like I will be able to delete any that I don’t need any more.
Mike in Jubei mentoned the pronunciation guide. Someone else linked to it recently, and I read it last night. When I heard the word to go out, is it chu qu or qu chu, I knew I was in trouble. I was never sure why there was a q and ch, j and zh, x and sh. If anyone else is as clueless as I am, the guide is at http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/pronunciation/
Personally, I am looking forward to a little immersion… just got my visa request back and I am excited about my first trip to China 2 weeks from today.
Excellent.
Are there plans to migrate the audio to the glossary and wordbank itself as well?
Matt, when I read that the flashcards have sound I ran right over and tried it. I clicked on play button and nothing happened on any of the words that I tried. I know that my sound works because I can hear the podcasts and the audio in the review materials fine. What do you think is wrong?
Mmm, were does it get the words from now? Before it work from your current default list, but that doesn’t work now. Some reason my flashcards have 666 items, and all my lists at the moment are only 139. I do have also have 1121 entries in my deleted section, which I thought was supposed to clear itself after a week or so?
Congratulations! This is a new feature all students will use.
yea I don’t know how you guys do it. Insane amounts of work! But I’ll enjoy this feature, rest assured, its greatly appreciated.
Wow, these are great. They will be very helpful. Thanks for the hard work.
Mike in Jubei,
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Matt, the sound for my flashcards is finally working. I don’t know if it is something you did or I did but whatever it was congratulations to both of us…to you for your brilliant efforts and to me for my perserverance. Let’s both keep up the good work
Atta boy, Bob!
Ken
Hi there,
I am not realy a blogger, so happy if you could help me via mail (couldn’t find a direct mail adress to mail you, so I ended up here): in my eyes the flash card characters are way too small (and also the other chinese characters, e.g. in the learning centre):
part two (somehow I sent the first part without completing it):
as the characters are new I would like to have them BIG in front of my eyes so I can memorise the ‘picture’ easier; now, many of them are so tiny that I even cannot look them up in a dictionary. So is that only a problem of my computer settings (which I would be grateful to receive some hint how to tackle) or is this something you can resolve your end?
Regards
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
You can click the right button of the mouse on the flashcard —–> enlarge,and you can increase the font of the flashcard words.