I wrote Chinese Practice when I started to study Chinese and couldn't find any program that would offer the features I needed. Since that time I keep to update it with things that come handy as one slowly (in my case really too slowly) moves from beginning to intermediate phase. Chinese Practice is free and always will be including all the lessons published on this site, but I will not translate my own lessons anymore - if you want to share your lessons with other users, you are welcomed.

Chinese Practice will not teach you Chinese, it's a program meant to accompany your study at a school. When you come home from class, create new lesson and write down new words and phrases. First practise the last lesson, then open couple of most recent lessons, from time to time open and practise all lessons. Use different modes – let the program display only chinese terms while you translate into your language or vice versa, or just hear the computer read the terms and repeat it. Highly recommended thing to do is to print out list of Chinese phrases, carry it with you and try to read it everytime you have a free minute.

If you are lao shi, you can prepare the lessons in advance and e-mail them to your students (lessons can be linked with one or more RTF files with notes, dialogs, homework etc.). If you are really devoted and computer savvy lao shi, you can also record the correct pronounciation and scan the characters stroke order, then link the MP3 and JPG files with the terms. Your xue sheng will love you!

Open multiple lessons and merge them together, skip terms you already know, practise words and/or phrases in random or sequential order Edit or create your own lessons in internal editor or any text editor with Unicode support Listen to the pronounciation and see the strokes order through associated multimedia files Hear any chinese phrase read out through text-to-speech synthesis Organize your vocabulary - sort, print, save, use different fonts... Use different skins, create your own Write chinese characters directly into your memory cells with unique Brain Flash technique Find out radical, character codes, traditional form, definition and dictionary entries for hanzi characters Use integrated talking Chinese-English-pinyin dictionary Use talking chinese reader with auto dictionary