Australasian Centre of Chinese Studies (ACCS)

(School of Chinese Languages in Melbourne and Sydney)

Dr Dennis Wollersheim has set up a 'spaced repetition' flashcard-like computer program that helps memorise ACCS characters and sound content.

There are 3 ways to use the content:

First, on your PC, using the Mnemosyne program.

You need 2 parts: first, get and install Mnemosyne from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mnemosyne-proj/files/mnemosyne/mnemosyne-1.2.1-setup.exe/download

Or, if you are using Macintosh systems, go to:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mnemosyne-proj/

Second, get the ACCS content:

http://dennis.wollersheim.ca/images/accs_mnemosyne_databases.zip

Unzip the latter file somewhere, and then open up one of the unzipped databases in Mnemosyne. For example, the database called mandarin_sound+character_lesson1-10.mem shows the character, says the sound, and expects the user to be able to remember the English character.

You can also use a Palm based phone, for flash card content, using
the Anki program. Again you need 2 parts;

Get Anki program itself (which runs on the Palm), and the Asian fonts, from:

http://www.anki.com/download.html

Then again, you need the ACCS databases

http://dennis.wollersheim.ca/images/ACCS1-20.pdb

Finally, a student might also want to use the base spreadsheet, containing all the content, if they wanted to do other fun things. These can be found at:

http://dennis.wollersheim.ca/images/ACCS1-20.xls