Flashcard Question

[Wan]

Hi,

let’s take the PLC dictionary entry for 经心 as an example. The whole entry has got the characters, the translation “careful; mindful; conscientious” and quite a few example sentences with characters, pinyin and translation. I added the word 经心 to my flashcards. I set Plecodict to show only the definition and ask for the characters in flashcard sessions, because I don’t want to see the pinyin before answering.
Now, in a test session, I only get to see the translation, not the example sentences. I thought this might have to do with the “no pinyin” setting, but it obviously doesn’t: After answering, the pinyin (i.e. “jing1xin1”) is revealed, but not the example sentences. Why could this be?

Wan

 

[mikelove]

let’s take the PLC dictionary entry for 经心 as an example. The whole entry has got the characters, the translation “careful; mindful; conscientious” and quite a few example sentences with characters, pinyin and translation. I added the word 经心 to my flashcards. I set Plecodict to show only the definition and ask for the characters in flashcard sessions, because I don’t want to see the pinyin before answering.
Now, in a test session, I only get to see the translation, not the example sentences. I thought this might have to do with the “no pinyin” setting, but it obviously doesn’t: After answering, the pinyin (i.e. “jing1xin1”) is revealed, but not the example sentences. Why could this be?

By design - we don't show examples by default because then you can't see all of the definitions at once, which seems like a bad idea on a test where you're trying to teach people definitions.

However, you can change this by setting "Definition sections" in "Card Text" to "No Xrefs" or "Show All."

 

[Wan]

Works, thanks!

 

[oldchum62]

This is kind of unrelated to this thread but I wanted the pleco flashcard character lists for the 'conversational chinese 301' and 'chinese characters' textbooks by Kang Yuhua et al and AAlan Hoenig, respectively. I wanted to pm Mr Wan but I am a new user here so I can't. Could anyone very kindly point me to where I could get these. I really appreciate any help. Thanks.

 

[mikelove]

This is kind of unrelated to this thread but I wanted the pleco flashcard character lists for the 'conversational chinese 301' and 'chinese characters' textbooks by Kang Yuhua et al and AAlan Hoenig, respectively. I wanted to pm Mr Wan but I am a new user here so I can't. Could anyone very kindly point me to where I could get these. I really appreciate any help. Thanks.

Are they available on some other site? If so then you could probably adapt them to our format pretty easily - just arrange them like this:

characters<tab>pinyin<tab>definition

one item per line. (now that you've had a post approved you can also send PMs)

 

[oldchum62]

Thanks Mike. I will pm Wan f or the lists. If all else fails, I will copy them one by one in the format you suggested. On a side note, I am a bit new to all this technology, this being my first smartphone but I think this pleco gizmo is absolutely fantastic!!

 

[mikelove]

Thanks Mike. I will pm Wan f or the lists. If all else fails, I will copy them one by one in the format you suggested. On a side note, I am a bit new to all this technology, this being my first smartphone but I think this pleco gizmo is absolutely fantastic!!

Thank you!