Can polysyllabic words (like “nihao”) be studied with flashcards?
Wenlin’s current documented Flashcard system (described in detail in Chapter 13 of the Wenlin User’s Guide) is designed primarily for memorizing single characters (for example, 你 nǐ ‘you’ and 好 hǎo ‘good’), rather than words or phrases of more than one syllable (for example, 你好 nǐhǎo ‘hello’). It doesn’t directly support specifying polysyllabic vocabulary items. Nevertheless, Wenlin does provide ways of memorizing words and phrases of arbitrary length. First of all, while using the documented Flashcard system to study a character, you can always access the list of words containing that character (most common words first), and it is a good idea to make this a habit. You can also customize the top line of each character’s zidian entry, to include whichever compounds you are most interested in memorizing, so you will see that information when the entry is displayed using the documented Flashcard system. Another way is completely separate from the documented Flashcard system. Simply create
Wenlin’s current documented Flashcard system (described in detail in Chapter 13 of the Wenlin User’s Guide) is designed primarily for memorizing single characters (for example, 你 nǐ ‘you’ and 好 hǎo ‘good’), rather than words or phrases of more than one syllable (for example, 你好 nǐhǎo ‘hello’). It doesn’t directly support specifying polysyllabic vocabulary items. Nevertheless, Wenlin does provide ways of memorizing words and phrases of arbitrary length. First of all, while using the documented Flashcard system to study a character, you can always access the list of words containing that character (most common words first), and it is a good idea to make this a habit. You can also customize the top line of each character’s zidian entry, to include whichever compounds you are most interested in memorizing, so you will see that information when the entry is displayed using the documented Flashcard system. Another way is completely separate from the documented Flashcard system. Simply create
