Bewertungsberichte zu sieben chinesischen Sprachlehr-Programmen

Abstract

Evaluation reports on seven programs teaching the Chinese language

1, Chinese Assistant 2.10, which is currently not available, is an online dictionary providing real-time-translations of words in unknown Chinese texts from three different electroinc dictionaries. Moreover it offers database functions. 2, Chinese Character Tutor is a vocabulary trainer with many different criteria to sort words and idiomatic phrases for learning purposes. 3, The professional version of Interactive Chinese, which is meant for beginners, includes many creative and graphic exercises, including animated phonetic descriptions and “edutainment”. 4, The ABC version of the program Interactive Chinese is smaller, but only exercises of minor importance have been omitted. 5, Language Learning Chinese is a program for oversea Chinese children who want to learn Chinese. 6, Mao´s Alphabet is a free software and includes 2,400 characters which can be trained, tested and looked up in a simple dictionary. 7, Wenlin 2.0 is designed for the advanced autonomous learner of Chinese. It accepts unknown texts and explains the characters with their etymology in English, reading them out loudly and creating associations by displaying the word field and the frequency of usage. While it stimulates further learning, the exercises for writing and vocabulary learning are rather rudimentary.