I would like very much to try Chutor. I'm learning chinese at this moment with the new practical chinese reader. But the only file offered for download is a tar.b2z file and at first I couldn't find out how to unpack this untill i figured that 7-zip actually does unpack it. Anyway a zip would come in handy for other users.
Victor
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> I would like very much to try Chutor. I'm learning chinese at this moment
> with the new practical chinese reader. But the only file offered for
> download is a tar.b2z file and can't figure out howto unpack this under XP.
Thank you for your interest in Chutor! I'm still in the process of putting the website together, so I don't have much to offer at the moment.
To help you get started, I've added a .zip file containing the same files as the .tar.bz2 file. You can get the .jar and .jad files from the .zip.
If you ever need to extract .tar.bz2 files, which are common in the Linux world, you can use 7zip:
I haven't yet put together anything like a user manual, so you'll be a bit on-your-own until I can work something out. You can see a screen of keys by holding down "#".
One thing I'm concerned about is that the program will just collapse in a steaming heap when it's run on someone else's phone. If you have any problems with the program, especially crashes, I would *love* to hear about it. Also any thoughts you have, no matter how vague, about your experience with using the program.
The program has four misfeatures that I know about:
- On some phones, the hanzi is not done using the same colour scheme as the rest of the on-screen text. This is particularly evident when the preferred background of the phone is black.
- The shuffling algorithm isn't so great. Especially when you restart the application, you'll get the characters coming back to you in a very similar order to the last time you ran the program.
- Some of the menus have a gratuitous extra step, such as a "Next", before you get to anything useful.
- The website claims the program keeps track of which ones you got right and wrong, and tailors the reappearance of the characters to give you more practice on the wrong ones, and less on the right ones. Done this way, your list won't get any smaller, even when you get characters right. Well, that's my plan, but it's not how things work in the program at the moment. Currently, choosing chapters fills a list, and as you get them right, the characters get dropped from the list. When the list is empty, you go back to the chapter list. It's still useful to do it this way, but it's not what I've advertised.
Any other problems you can find, I'd love to hear about.
My regards, and thanks for being the first user!
Mitch.
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Hi,
I would like very much to try Chutor. I'm learning chinese at this moment with the new practical chinese reader. But the only file offered for download is a tar.b2z file and at first I couldn't find out how to unpack this untill i figured that 7-zip actually does unpack it. Anyway a zip would come in handy for other users.
Victor
Hi Victor,
> I would like very much to try Chutor. I'm learning chinese at this moment
> with the new practical chinese reader. But the only file offered for
> download is a tar.b2z file and can't figure out howto unpack this under XP.
Thank you for your interest in Chutor! I'm still in the process of putting the website together, so I don't have much to offer at the moment.
To help you get started, I've added a .zip file containing the same files as the .tar.bz2 file. You can get the .jar and .jad files from the .zip.
If you ever need to extract .tar.bz2 files, which are common in the Linux world, you can use 7zip:
http://www.7-zip.org/
I have started on some web pages to help users:
http://chutor.wiki.sourceforge.net/
I haven't yet put together anything like a user manual, so you'll be a bit on-your-own until I can work something out. You can see a screen of keys by holding down "#".
One thing I'm concerned about is that the program will just collapse in a steaming heap when it's run on someone else's phone. If you have any problems with the program, especially crashes, I would *love* to hear about it. Also any thoughts you have, no matter how vague, about your experience with using the program.
The program has four misfeatures that I know about:
- On some phones, the hanzi is not done using the same colour scheme as the rest of the on-screen text. This is particularly evident when the preferred background of the phone is black.
- The shuffling algorithm isn't so great. Especially when you restart the application, you'll get the characters coming back to you in a very similar order to the last time you ran the program.
- Some of the menus have a gratuitous extra step, such as a "Next", before you get to anything useful.
- The website claims the program keeps track of which ones you got right and wrong, and tailors the reappearance of the characters to give you more practice on the wrong ones, and less on the right ones. Done this way, your list won't get any smaller, even when you get characters right. Well, that's my plan, but it's not how things work in the program at the moment. Currently, choosing chapters fills a list, and as you get them right, the characters get dropped from the list. When the list is empty, you go back to the chapter list. It's still useful to do it this way, but it's not what I've advertised.
Any other problems you can find, I'd love to hear about.
My regards, and thanks for being the first user!
Mitch.