Chinese flashcards for Palm

[jmcbride]

Does anyone have any experience with the various Chinese character flashcard programs available for Palm? It seems like this would be a great way of practicing character recognition on commutes and during boring meetings! I noticed that Clavis Sinica just came out with a new one, but I haven't tried it yet.

[gato]

I use PlecoDict all the time for its flashcard system. It's the best system available because of its integration with the dictionary. You can import a list of Chinese characters, and PlecoDict will fill in the pinyin and definition for you. That saves you an incredible amount of time.

http://www.plecoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=614

How to set up the flashcards

http://www.plecoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=516

Two flashcard lists: idioms and most frequently used characters

http://pleco.com/pdscreenshots.html

Some screenshots

Many others here are enthusiastic users of PlecoDict, see http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/6966-palm-pleco-software-which-dictionary&highlight=pleco

Palm - pleco software - which dictionary ?

[maceyr]

Wow! Thanks! I didn't even know or heard of Pleco and was lucky to discover this forum! Thanks!

[student]

I'm actually a big fan of Dragon Character Training, freeware from

http://dragon-char.sourceforge.net/

While development on it seems to have halted, it has several modes:

(1) given pinyin/english, select character;

(2) given character, select pinyin/definition; and

(3) given pinyin and definition, write the character.

I find the third mode particularly valuable.

Training sets are available for PCR (both traditional and simplified) and for HSK.

I wish I had mastered them all! Unfortunately, I am still far from that end...