Panki Chinese
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What is “Panki Chinese”?
“Panki Chinese” is the combination of great Chinese study material with a decent
program to study and repeat such material. It is recommended for daily use by
students with at least a basic level of oral Chinese and is especially useful
for learning Chinese characters. It contains in detail:
- Material:
- 2695 Chinese Characters in simplified and traditional
- 1141 Compounds in simplified and traditional
- between one and four example sentences for each entry (Character/Compound)
- 5733 unique example sentences in total
- example sentences come with photos (at least the first per entry; 4769 in total)
- everything with English translation
- everything with audio (yes, I said everything: entries and example sentences)!
- nicely ordered for sensible study
- every 100 characters follow up to 100 compounds of characters introduced
- all sentences tagged with percentage of “studied-so-far” characters in them
- Program:
- Spaced Repetition System for perfect memorization
- flash cards for Listening Comprehension, Speaking, Reading and Writing Hanzi
- flash cards for both, the Characters/Compounds and the example Sentences
- 38,276 light weight flash cards in total (entries+sentences × 4 study modes)
- transparent but visible division into 38 levels with changing icons for extra motivation
- dynamic flash cards: reviews get harder the better you know them (e.g. hiding image while
asking)
- test yourself in pinyin with tones and hanzi, or skip it, whenever you wish
- configurable intervals
- highlights where the traditional version differs from the simplified
How to get and install “Panki Chinese”?
Overview
- install Anki original, the study program
- install the Panki plugin-package, which enable the Panki-deck
- get and unpack the Panki-deck
- File → Open... PankiChineseDeck.anki
- read the manual
The details
- get Anki 1.2.5, 1.2.7 or 1.2.8 (latest at the time of writing) and install it:
- get the plugin package:
- run Anki and go to File → Download → Shared Plugin..., search for “panki
chinese” and download the package from uploader Robert.Siemer....backsla.sh
- or alternatively unzip this file
in your Anki plugins directory (Settings → Plugins → Open Plugin Folder...)
- restart Anki
- email me (Robert.Siemer-panki()backsla.sh) for the deck and media files. They’re not here for free download, because:
- the base content comes from the smart.fm website, which shut down, converted to
a paysite and neglected simplified Chinese courses (at the time of writing
pinyin was seriously f...ed up)
- I made hundreds of corrections, modifications and additions to that content
- I have no distribution rights for the smart.fm part
- I have the rights for my changes, though
- I got hold of 60 copies (46 left) of the smart.fm material, which I can give away for free
- when I’m out of copies, I need you to supply me a legal copy where I can apply my changes
and return them to you
- once you got hold of the content (PankiChineseDeck.zip), unpack it in your
Anki decks directory
- Neither pick “Download”, “Create” nor “Import”: go to File → Open... and pick PankiChineseDeck.anki
- don’t forget to read the manual!
Caveats
The PankiChinese plugin has some side-effects within Anki. I hope it will get
integrated into original Anki one day, so that this problem would go. –
So, when you are not reviewing the Panki Chinese deck, switch the plugin “PankiChinese” off
(Settings menu) and restart. This turns Anki back to normal, with all standard
functionality. (Otherwise, latex, part of the card browser and media handling
wont work.)
The other plugins from the package can stay on and won’t interfere.
How can I help improving “Panki Chinese”?
- suggest a better name
- fix or rewrite Anki original: I’ve a lot of ideas (email me!)