Showing posts with label chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinese. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 February 2010

laoshi : A Chinese learning application


I had some free time recently so I created a small application to learn Chinese. The name "laoshi" is the pinyin for "老師" which means "teacher".

For the moment the application features :
  • A dictionary, using the database from cedict containing more than 90,000 entries.
  • A lessons viewer, with automatic dictionary lookup when we pass the mouse over the text.
  • A flash card player.
  • Two lessons that I wrote for beginners.
I wrote everything in python using gtk for the interface, so it should work on every platform. I don't provide any package yet, but people interested can check the code at google code.