Практический курс китайского языка · А. Ф. Кондрашевский, М. В. Румянцева, М. Г. Фролова
Russia's most used Chinese textbook runs over two volumes and fifty lessons. Both volumes are typed up, every lesson, waiting in your account.
Why a word list beats the scan
What you add on top of the book is everything a paper list cannot do.
Entries come from the lesson dictionary of the course itself. Where a character has several readings, the reading the lesson teaches is the one in the list.
Native pronunciation for each entry, so tones are something you hear and repeat, not something you guess from the page.
Spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it, and stops showing what you already know.
Every character animates stroke by stroke, and you can write it with your finger until the order sticks.
One list per lesson, numbered exactly as the book numbers them. No matching up, no renaming, no spreadsheet.
Browser, iPhone and Android share the same lists and the same progress. Ten minutes before class count too.
Why the book alone is not enough
A textbook shows a word once. Memory research is blunt about what happens next, and about what fixes it.
Students who kept testing themselves on foreign-language vocabulary recalled about 80 % of it a week later. Those who kept re-reading the same list recalled about 36 %.
Karpicke & Roediger, Science, 2008Spreading review over days beats cramming it into one sitting, in a meta-analysis covering more than 14 000 participants. The longer the gap you need to remember for, the bigger the gain.
Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006Foreign-language words drilled at expanding intervals were still there nearly a decade later, with no further study in between.
Bahrick et al., Psychological Science, 1993That is exactly what the flashcards do: they ask you for the word instead of showing it, and they come back on the day you are about to forget it. Your lesson list plus the app is the pairing the research points at.
The series
Volume 1 carries lessons 1 to 30, volume 2 lessons 31 to 50. Pick the volume on your desk and the lesson you are on.
Both volumes are published by ВКН. The lists follow the 11th edition of volume 1.
Three steps
The lists follow the book's own numbering, so lesson 14 is lesson 14.
A free account keeps your lists and your progress. No file, no import, no plugin.
Listen, recognise, type or write the character. The app brings back what you are about to forget.
Questions
А. Ф. Кондрашевский, М. В. Румянцева, М. Г. Фролова, «Практический курс китайского языка», the 2010 two-volume edition. Volume 1 covers lessons 1 to 30, volume 2 lessons 31 to 50.
A free account is enough to open the lists and start training. A subscription adds the offline app features and unlimited reviews, and you will know exactly when you hit that point.
Yes. The Russian meanings come from the lesson dictionary of the book itself, not from a generic word list. Where the app's dictionary offered several meanings for one character, we picked the one the lesson uses.
No. It runs in the browser. The iPhone and Android apps are optional and sync the same lists and the same progress.
Report it from the list and an editor checks it. That is how proper names and set phrases from the texts were added, within two days.
The 2010 edition, volume 1 in its 11th printing. If your copy is an earlier edition the lesson numbering still matches; a few words were added in the newer printings.
Ready when you are
2 224 words across 50 lessons of the course. Open the one you need and train it tonight.
Free to start · iPhone, Android and browser · the same lists everywhere
