Phil Mosier's KaPian for Windows


		KaPian means "cards" or "flash cards" in Chinese. The use of flash cards has long been considered an important part of studying European languages. But the student of Chinese has been faced with a more complicated problem. Here you need to study 1) the Chinese character (either Long or Short Form), 2) the romanized sound, in the particular dialect you want to learn (Mandarin for instance, romanized perhaps in Pinyin), and 3) the English meaning.
	You needed either a three-sided card or three decks of cards, at the very least. Now there is a third choice. You can use the computer program KAPIAN: Chinese Flash Cards to study this age old language. Let the computer shuffle the "Cards" and show them to you. KAPIAN provides easy to follow menus, offers a great assortment of study methods, and presents an attractive appearance on the screen.
	Benefits This suite of programs is designed to help you study Chinese and test your progress. There are many benefits to using a personal computer to study languages but also KaPian helps in a variety of ways. Studying in the privacy of your home allows you to drill until you are satisfied with your own efforts. The program KaPian allows 10 different ways to test yourself. The whole package is Shareware and available for download.. System requirements: 386 PC, Windows 3.x or better, 2 meg of free disk space, 2 meg or more of memory, and a mouse is recommended. KaPian allows 10 different ways to test yourself on the the vocabulary in one lesson file. Given English select Chinese Long form Character Given English select Chinese Short form Character Given English select Chinese Sound Given Chinese Sound select Chinese Long form Character Given Chinese Sound select Chinese Short form Character Given Chinese Sound select English Given Chinese Long form Character select Chinese Sound Given Chinese Long form Character select English Given Chinese Short form Character select Chinese Sound Given Chinese Short form Character select English You can add additional characters, beyond those included using HanZi for Windows, and additional program that is included in the package You can add additional lessons, beyond those included using GongKe for Windows, still another program included in the package. You can just study the lessons with XueXiW This 16 bit Windows version is small enough to fit on a 1.38 meg 3.5 inch diskette.

	To Download your copy of KaPian for Windows so you can Study with: XueXi; test yourself with KaPian and make more lessons with the program :GongKe and make more characters for studying with the program: HanZi:
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