usaar333 Posted December 7, 2015 at 01:11 PM Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 at 01:11 PM I've been searching for a solid replacement for Lingt (an online SRS vocab training app) that shut down a few years back that had a solid Chinese training interface. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nbxOoBdko Important features: space repetition learning (with a schedule) easy to add arbitrary vocab to schedule pinyin input interface online (offline desktop app ok as well) can focus solely on pinyin (no need to learn hanzi) Being free, however, is not a requirement. I've tried a variety of tools and all are missing one or more important features: Yabla: similar trainer, but no way to add vocab from its dictionary Memrise: No pinyin input interface (tone correctness isn't validated) Pleco: Very good mobile app that offers most of these abilities. No desktop app though, barring running an Android emulator on my machine. Significantly more complex to use than Lingt was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friday Posted December 8, 2015 at 07:40 AM Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 at 07:40 AM Have you tried Anki? This SRS software has desktop, Web-based, and mobile versions. With Anki, you have a choice of share decks, created by others, or creating your own deck. I preferred Lingt, but after its creator announced it would be closed, I switched to Anki. Lingt had a better system for teaching new words, a good method of teaching tones, and easier way to quickly add words with pictures and audio. But you can still create a custom desk in Anki with features that can be adapted to behave in a similar way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted December 8, 2015 at 05:23 PM Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 at 05:23 PM @usaar33 - anything you miss from Lingt in Pleco aside from a simpler UI + desktop support? (we're working on addressing both of those already - cantonese.org is just the tip of the iceberg for us in terms of online offerings :-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted December 8, 2015 at 05:24 PM Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 at 05:24 PM "cantonese.org is just the tip of the iceberg for us in terms of online offerings" Chinese learning community wets collective pants. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usaar333 Posted December 12, 2015 at 05:07 AM Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 at 05:07 AM Friday: I've tried out Anki but out of the box it seems to just be a self-graded flashcard tool, where I specify how hard it was to recall the word. Is there a way to make it have multiple-choice and fill in the blank? (pinyin) milelove: simpler UI + desktop support is the main requirement. Also I loved how lingt dynamically moved from multiple choice (chinese-> english, then english->chinese) to fill in the blank, while Pleco doesn't allow a single quiz run to have both multiple choice and fill in the blank (as it is a global "test type" option, not a "subject level" option); regardless, fill in the blank is painful on a mobile device, so this is more of a desired feature for desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted December 13, 2015 at 04:20 AM Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 at 04:20 AM @usaar333: Thanks. Test type alternation is definitely on our to-do list, and "simpler UI" has been at the top of Pleco things-to-do pretty much since 2001 :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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