HOW TO USE
Goal of the game
The goal of this game is to learn Chinese words from 1 to 4 hanzis by playing an easy game.
Nine definitions are proposed with for each of them the number of hanzis expected in the word to find.
There are 20 hanzis in a grid.
How to play
Pressing a hanzi displays it in the result area after the last hanzi entered and hides the corresponding button.
By pressing the "Submit" button, the entry is submitted to the program for verification.
Pressing the "Delete" button resets the result area completely and the buttons corresponding to the input are displayed again.
If the entry is correct, the definition is displayed in green with the pinyin and the number of hanzis is replaced by the word found in Chinese characters.
Get help
If you get a new word totally unknown, it could be very difficult to guess, unless you try random combinations, but this could be very disadvantageous for the score.
There are two possibilities:
A tap or a click on the definition of a word displays the pinyin of the corresponding word in Chinese.
A new tap or click re-dsplays the definition.
Clicking the "Show" button or the "Show Pinyin" button displays the pinyin of all hanzis.
A new tap hides the pinyin.
These actions have a direct influence on the score.
*** It may happen that several hanzis have the same pinyin. It's to you to manage it...
The score
A representative score of your knowledge of the words is calculated as the game is played and is recorded at the end of the game.
It is calculated as follows:
Initially you have 100 points.
Display pinyin of a definition removes 3 points.
Displaying the definition again gives back 1 point.
Display pinyin of all buttons removes 5 points.
Hiding them again gives back 2 points.
*** Pressing a hanzi button when its pinyin is displayed removes 5 points ... definitely.
Submitting an incorrect word (by pressing the Submit button) removes 5 points.
*** The purpose of this scoring is to encourage you to use pinyin as little as possible. Like in real life...
Other functions
The "Menu" button opens access to the parameters and to various screens (Statistics, choice of modules, contact).
The button "幸 苦啊 苦啊" (tài xīn kǔ a) (Ah! It's too difficult) allows to abandon the current table if it seems ... too difficult.
When a grid is finished, this button displays "More" and allows you to restart a new game.
Menu
Desired level
Independently of the level, the words of each module are divided into 3 levels of difficulty. You can choose here the levels you want to play.
To obtain scores more representative of reality, you can prohibit the abandonment of a game.
Viewing
You can choose to display hanzis in traditional or simplified form.
You can choose to display the pinyin in the numbered form or in the accented form.
Left-handers can choose to reverse the Submit and Delete buttons.
My modules
You can choose here the module on which you want to work. On the free version, you have modules general01-02 and HSK01-02.
Statistics
Track your progress.
Downloads
Allows you to know the new modules you can acquire.
Report a problem
Allows you to report a problem encountered or ask a question that you could not find a response to.
Help
A small integrated user manual.
