Read Me First on E-Learning Materials for Lets Learn Chinese Book Five

It is important that you read this document carefully before using any files or
programs in this CD-ROM. You will find two main folders: Book Five and e-
Learning. The contents of the first folder are self-explanatory and so will not be
discussed here.

Contents of the e-learning folder in this CD-ROM

1. Book Five Flash Cards
2. English-Chinese Flash Cards Game
3. LLC DictionaryBk5
4. Sentence Reconstruction Book 5

Book Five Flash Cards

This folder contains 283 flash cards created for Book Five, which are grouped into 29
decks. Each card has a Chinese word or phrase on one side and the equivalent
English meaning on the other.

These flash cards will be used by the English-Chinese Flash Cards program, which is
described in the next section. For now, copy the whole folder to your hard drive, for
example, inside your My Documents folder and make a note of where it is as you will
need to find it when running the program.

English-Chinese Flash Cards Game

As mentioned earlier, this is a program that you use for playing flash cards, such as
the Book Five Flash Cards. If you have played Book Four Flash Cards on your
computer, you can skip the installation section presented below as the same program
will be used here.

The game displays a randomly shuffled deck of cards on the card table (left pane,
Figure 4) either English or Chinese side up. The Chinese words on the cards can be
displayed in either traditional or simplified script and they can be spoken in either
Cantonese or Mandarin.

Installation
To install the program, follow this procedure:
1. Double-click (always using the left-mouse button unless told otherwise) on
English-Chinese Flash Cards Game folder to go to its sub-folders, Figure 1.

2. Double-click on English-Chinese Flash Cards Game.application (second item in

the right-hand pane of Figure 2) to start installation. You will see a Launching
Application window displayed on the screen for a brief moment. If you blink, you
might miss it.

3. The Application Install Security Warning window now shows (Figure 3). Please
ignore the warning, and simply click the Install button to continue.
4. Once installation is complete, the English-Chinese Flash Cards Game program
will start automatically, with the display as shown in Figure 4.

Playing the game

1. Click on the Open File button and navigate to the Book Four Flash Cards folder.
When you are inside it, you will only see one file Book Five Flash Cards.txt
displayed (Figure 5). Click its name to select it and then click on the Open button.

2. All the 29 decks are now loaded in, Figure 6. Select one by clicking on it then
click the Show Cards button to display all the cards of the selected deck in the left
pane. Once you view the cards and feel ready to start, click the Start Game button
to play. Figure 7 shows a snapshot of the game in progress.

3. When you are finished with the program, you can exit it by clicking the Exit
Program button, Figure 7.

Figure 1 English-Chinese Flash Cards Game folder and its contents as shown in
the right pane with one folder named Application Files, and two files named
English-Chinese Flash Cards Game.application and setup.exe.
Figure 2 Double-click on English-Chinese Flash Cards Game.application to
install.

Figure 3 Application Install Security Warning window.

Figure 4 English-Chinese Flash Cards Game window.

Figure 5 The flash cards selection dialogue window.

Figure 6 Twenty-nine decks of flash cards are now loaded into the program.
You can scroll down the list to bring other decks into view. Select a deck by
clicking on its name.
 Figure 7 A snapshot of the game in progress; note that the deck Chapter 1a is
being played, with cards set up to show the Chinese side at the start of game and
two cards having been flipped over (with 2 successes in 2 attempts) in a time of
5.2 seconds.

LLC DictionaryBk 5
The installation procedure is the same as for other programs.

This is an updated dictionary, now including all vocabulary from Foundation,

Elementary, Book One, Book Two, Book Three, Book Four and Book Five, the last
being the latest addition. All example sentences have also been revised to make them
more concise.

If you have an earlier version of this program, there is no need to un-install it.
However, if you know how to, then it may be advisable to do so because it will free
up some memory space on your hard drive. The performance of the dictionary is not
compromised whether or not you decide to un-install.

Figure 9 shows the dictionary window of this program; the layout is the same as
before except for the background colour.
 Figure 9 The new colour scheme of Lets Learn Chinese Dictionary program
with vocabulary up to Book Five.

Sentence Reconstruction Book 5

The installation procedure is the same as for other programs. This program has all the
exercises built in and so you can start any exercise as soon as the program is opened.

There are 19 exercises comprising 95 different sentences in total. Select an exercise

from the green panel (Figure 10) and then click the Start Game button to play.
Playing instructions (circled red in Figure 10) are given in the program window.
Figure 11 shows a game in progress; note that the sentence has to be rebuilt to have
the same meaning as that of the English sentence (circled red in Figure 11).

Figure 10 Sentence reconstruction program window.

 Figure 11 A snapshot of a game after 19 seconds; game selected
(B) with words displayed in traditional script.

Further Help with Use of Programs

If you require more help or have any suggestions on how the programs can be
improved in order to give you the features and functions that you desire, please
contact me at joe.au@ukfcs.info .

E-learning Website
You may wish to visit our new e-learning website at http://elearn.ukfcs.info.
There you will find a dictionary with audio pronunciation, audio stories and a
summary of the Chinese grammar with illustrative examples.

Joe Au
E-Learning Development
UK Federation of Chinese School
(Date of issue: 1st July 2014)