A friend of mine has been doing more and more business in China, so Lan’s been helping him to learn some Mandarin basics so that he can get around.
Last week I noticed that as part of his “homework” he had created a set of flash cards on which he wrote various Mandarin characters. Then he randomly sequenced through each card, prompting him to say out loud what the character was. When he got stuck, he switched over to his Palm on which he stored audio files of each of the characters he’d recorded on a handheld digital recorder. This got me thinking. Why not put all this together into a Tablet PC flashcard program? This is how TabletFlash was born–a screenshot of which is shown to the right.
TabletFlash is very simple. A typical 1.0 app. I don’t think there’s much to describe about it, other than to say you can handwrite whatever you want on a bunch of flashcards as well as record an audio snippet for each card. Later you can review the cards in order or randomly. You can use the audio snippet as a hint or clue or not at all. That’s about all there is to it.
You can download TabletFlash from TabletPCPost here.