The vocabulary study section has much of the current functionality with a few enhancements.
Vocabulary Lists
First of all, vocabulary words can be added from the lesson review similar to as they can now. Once words have been saved, users can add tags to categorize them as they see fit. Instead of using ‘folders’ as we do now, we have adopted ‘tags’ to allow for more flexibility. For example, apple might be tagged with both ‘fruit’ and ‘red’. These tags form the basis of your vocabulary lists. From these lists one can both listen to the audio for the word or find the lessons that it can be found in.
To help promote self-discovery of related, new vocabulary when you view your tagged vocabulary lists, you will also be presented with other vocabulary that the community has tagged in a similar fashion. For example, if you were viewing 苹果 and 西瓜 in a ‘fruit’ list you might be presented with related vocabulary 香蕉, 柠檬 and 葡萄.
Flashcards & Concentration Game
The functionality of the Concentration Game remains the same, but has a fresh, new look. The Flashcards, also have a new look and some new user requested features, including:
- an automatic setting to scan through the flashcard deck
- a temporary exclude feature; this removes the card from the flashcards, but still leaves it in your vocab list
- test 汉字 with audio option
Vocabulary Sets
Similar to how we have grouped together Lesson Sets, we have created Vocabulary Sets of groups of words that are often learned together (e.g. travel-related words). These can be saved as a vocabulary list for future review in the flashcards, concentration game, etc.
Importing & Exporting
Pretty straightforward here, select which lists to export then select your preferred export format (CSV, XML or iFlash). A new import option has been added to help with the mobility of word lists. We were hoping to get printable flashcards up for the launch, but it looks like we will regrettably have to push this back for a while.
Note on Mobile Flashcards
We have temporally removed our mobile flashcards system, but will be back over the next month or so with a much more extensive mobile site to compliment listening to podcasts on-the-go.
Next: The Connect Section
Most important question for me regarding the Vocab Section:
Will the Flashcards for Vocab from the Advanced lessons eventually come with an English backside? I am desperate to train all those Chengyu.
iFlash-Download!
Thank you again for making things so easy for users of this great flashcard program on Apple Macs!
I can’t wait…
Looks great, I might use this area more often with the new changes. I tend not at the moment because my wordbank is too disorganised.
Henning,
Actually, yes.
John,
cool.
Actually there seems hardly any issue that hasn’t been fixed in V3.
How boring if there is nothing left for us here to 站着说话不腰疼.
I fear we need to spend those timeslots learning now.
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The cahnges sound great. They are exactly what I was hoping for. I’m sorry if I missed it, but when do these changes (Version 3) go into effect?
Thanks for a great tool,
Tim
Looks great !
In addition to vocabulary lists, I would really like to see CPOD incorporate an “idiomatic expression” list with sound files that could also be downloaded.
An individual word vocabulary is OK, but not as useful as a string of words that are used in everyday language expressions. Contextual learning is the best.