Re: Japanese voicing, and learning Mandarin and Portuguese (was Re: Keyboards)

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:31:31 -0500, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
>> ...
>> I have access to Pimsleurs for both languages, and to Henrik's
>> excellent flashcard site (which gets better each time I check it),
>> ...
>
> Thanks! :-)
Well, it *is* a damn fine piece of work.

> I urgently want to get the Hanzi teacher running, but I'll probably
> have to wait until I get a new web account -- the current one has
> quota problems and adding Chinese script with a lot of tiny little
> .gif files will not improve the situation.
Is it plausible to make either the system (or specific teachers) require
Unicode fonts, and use just characters instead of .gifs? It'd give end
users more control over the character forms they see, for instance.

> Furthermore, Hanzi need a slightly different approach.
I've been trying to practice on the CJK Radicals for the time being, in
Simplified form. I'm getting a few of them, but it's been years since I
worked my way through "100 Essential Chinese Radicals" or whatever the
book was called.



Paul

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