Remembering all of China's provinces/areas and capitals

[tooironic]

Wow, I just downloaded your program and am using it now. You present a really streamlined way to memorise all the provinces, not to mention the rest of the world. Great work! ;)

[abcdefg]

Thanks for the program. It's fun to use. I think I'll wind up playing with it a lot.

I learned the Chinese names for many countries this summer during the World Cup. Was in China at the time and wanted to be able to use them in the course of informal conversation day to day. For me that's always the best motivator. Had laid the groundwork in 2008 during the Olympics, but forgot some between then and now.

[bryce1]

Thank you, jatufin, for posting the link to your website and program! It looks like very useful software for learning.

For some reason, when I tried to download it, my Norton Antivirus (which, for some reason, never seems to detect anything) says there is a Medium Risk (for viruses?) and not to install the software. Do you know why it is doing this?

The file was automatically deleted from my system, so I cannot use it. Is anyone else having this problem/Norton message appearing?

[abcdefg]

I downloaded and installed it with no complaints from Kaspersky. And it's working fine.

[jatufin]

No idea. And with only this information it's hard to start

guessing. Anyway, I checked the files, and they're not

compromised. Neither does AVG in my Windows box report anything.

But you can always download and install Python (that is the

programming language used) separately:

http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi

After installing that, download the zip file:

http://jannetuukkanen.net/WIC2_free/wic.zip

Uncompress, browse to World In Chinese folder, double click

file named RunWIC, and there you (should) go.

[abcdefg]

Thanks again for the program. It's been lots of fun to use.

[Jane_PA]

When I was a child, my dad bourght a Chinese map game, like a puzzel. All the provinces are small pieces and I put them together to practice memorizing their posisions and capitals.

Or, a big China map on the wall will be helpful as well.

China has only 30s provinces, much fewer than the 50 states of the U.S.

For memorizing the capitals, no efficient way... How did you memorize the capitals for each country for your geography class? No harder than that I think.

[889]

Get a Chinese rail timetable and plot some journeys, like Wenzhou to Kashgar to Lijiang to Qiqihaer to Wenzhou. It's almost impossible to use timetables efficiently on a complex journey without a good sense of Chinese geography, since you need to know where your transfer points will be.

[bryce1]

I found out why Norton was not letting me download it: it turns out my version of Norton does not allow files to be downloaded if the file has not been tested before (fewer than 10 people have used it). Using Opera instead of Mozilla solved the problem for some reason.

Thanks for the great software, jatufin! It is an excellent study tool!