Prodigal Son Posted June 26, 2006 at 08:14 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 at 08:14 PM So a ton of flashcards in MS Word format are available here: http://www.shufawest.us/language/index.html What's the best way to get these printed in China? I don't have a printer at home but printers are everywhere on the street - anyone know if they can print double sided things like this and score them for you? If this is possible I'd expect it to be cheap and worth the trouble. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 27, 2006 at 01:33 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 at 01:33 AM I use to buy boxes of blank name cards and sweet-talk colleagues into copying HSK vocab onto them. See if you can find a place that prints name cards (rather than one that takes orders and gets them printed elsewhere - you might be able to get them printed on decent weight card and cut up into nice wallet-sized packs. If they can't do it onto card then the same place should be able to print onto A4 paper and cut them up for you, but they're going to get pretty dog-eared if you actually use them. Not sure where you are in China, but just walk around looking for the shops with stuff like 名片，打印 in the window. Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stil Posted June 27, 2006 at 01:52 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 at 01:52 AM You can have them printed onto normal paper anywhere then take the sheets to a photography store and they will cut them and laminate them for you. Not expensive at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randall_flagg Posted June 27, 2006 at 08:09 PM Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 at 08:09 PM good to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted June 29, 2006 at 10:04 PM Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 at 10:04 PM The cut and laminated cards ended up costing nearly 0.5元 a piece, with 65 of them being 30元. I didn't realize that traditional characters had been printed on the cards until I had them in my hands - is there a site similar to the one that I posted which has simplified flashcards ready-to-print? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onebir Posted July 3, 2006 at 01:30 PM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 01:30 PM I saw a book of 2000 odd flashcards for HSK - with perforations to make it easy to get the cards out - in the foreign languages bookstore in wang fu jing. RMB38 ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:45 PM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:45 PM That book is called Chinese Learning Cards for HSK, from Morning Glory Publishers, 2005. I picked up a copy in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press bookshop, next to Beijing Foreign Studies Uni, west third ring road. Each card has a character with stroke order on one side and a few words which begin with the given character on the reverse. A good resource for 38 kuai. I'm trying an experiment with these cards to learn the tones. Have coloured in each character using one of four colours, one for each tone. The idea is to add a quick and easy visual clue linking tone to character. I've just started using the cards so no feedback yet on how effective this is. Anyone tried this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stil Posted July 3, 2006 at 03:15 PM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 03:15 PM Quote: I saw a book of 2000 odd flashcards for HSK - with perforations to make it easy to get the cards out - in the foreign languages bookstore in wang fu jing. RMB38 ;-) Nice if you live there, however I live in a small village in the countryside of Hunan. No foreign language bookstores. No bookstores at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted July 3, 2006 at 05:51 PM Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 05:51 PM I saw a book of 2000 odd flashcards for HSK - with perforations to make it easy to get the cards out - in the foreign languages bookstore in wang fu jing. RMB38 ;-) sounds great. except for tearing out out 2,000 perforated flashcards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elina Posted July 3, 2006 at 07:28 PM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 07:28 PM The detailed information of the cards: Chinese Learning Cards for HSK (Chinese-English) http://shop.aaawww.net/mod8/detail.php?gid=481673&userid=7912&catid=662814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted July 17, 2006 at 10:49 AM Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 at 10:49 AM I went to the URL that the previous poster left (http://shop.aaawww.net/mod8/detail.p...2&catid=662814), but couldn't figure out how to determine shipping costs to Sichuan. I sent an e-mail to the contact available on the site but haven't gotten a reply in weeks. Is there another place where this can be ordered online or with a telephone call? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elina Posted July 17, 2006 at 11:54 AM Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 at 11:54 AM but couldn't figure out how to determine shipping costs to Sichuan. At the bottom of every page on our site, there is “Distributing Method, Cost and Time” http://shop.aaawww.net/mod8/fsql.php?id=217543&userid=7912 I sent an e-mail to the contact available on the site but haven't gotten a reply in weeks. I’m sure that we have not received your email. We get many spams with suspicious email titles and have to delete them every day. I think your letter might seem to be one of those. Otherwise, we always reply each email within one working day. If you want to ask something, please use the email title with “order”, “enquiry”, or the product’s name or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:17 PM Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:17 PM I had a look at these cards in the Wangfujing Bookstore today (the Foreign Language one didn't seem to have them). They look pretty decent, but I would bear in mind that a) they're character flashcards, and I'm of the opinion that you are better off learning words than characters - not to say these aren't valuable, but it's easy to learn characters and forget the words, and B) they're decent quality paper, but not card - not sure how they'd stand up to repeated sweaty handling. For 38Y though, you can't really go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:24 PM Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:24 PM Thanks for your reply Elina! I sent another message today before posting here again, if you reply then I can figure out a way to send payment. If you didn't receive the message that I sent today, my email address is me@djcharlie.us Thanks again, charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elina Posted July 19, 2006 at 01:31 AM Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 at 01:31 AM Hi Charlie, Yesterday we have answered your letter. If you do not receive it, please check your junk email folder, some of our customers said sometimes our emails were put into their junk email folders for no reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmck Posted July 19, 2006 at 10:29 AM Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 at 10:29 AM I didn't realize that traditional characters had been printed on the cards until I had them in my hands - is there a site similar to the one that I posted which has simplified flashcards ready-to-print? You should use the links section. Try: http://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/ic1flashcards/ http://www.itcn.nl/jeffrey/jjh-IC/IC-Flash.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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