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K A P I A N :
Chinese Flash Cards




S H A R E W A R E V E R S I O N


















KAPIAN is copyright (C) 1989 , 1990 Phil Mosier
2728 Bridgeford Drive
Sacramento, CA 95833


Kapian is Shareware. Users are granted a limited
license to copy Kapian only for the trial use of others;
subject to the following conditions. Non-registered
users are granted a limited license to use Kapian on a
trial basis for the purpose of determining whether
Kapian is suitable for their needs. Use of Kapian
except for this limited purpose requires registration.
Use of non-registered copies of Kapian by any person,
business, corporation, governmental agency or other
entity institution is strictly forbidden. No user may
modify Kapian in any way, including but not limited to
decompiling, disassembling or otherwise reverse
engineering the program.

Kapian must be copied in unmodified form, complete
with the file containing this license information. The
full Kapian documentation must be included with the
copy. No fee, charge or other compensation may be
accepted or requested by any licensee. Kapian may not
be distributed in conjunction with any other product.
Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (Sysops)
may post Kapian for down loading by their users.
Distributors of public domain or user supported software
may distribute copies of Kapian after obtaining written
permission. Such permission is usually granted.

Those who find this disk helpful in their study
will want to purchase the licenced disks that provide
more files, more methods of romanization, more programs
(that allow you to make your own characters and
romanized lesson files), and give you even more
versatility. See last page for order form.








TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction . . . . . . . 4


Getting Started . . . . . . . 6
Required Files
Main Menu


Tutorial: studying how to study . . . . 10
Program Information


Changing Test Defaults . . . . . . 11
Given vs Select
Form of Character


Change Display Defaults . . . . . . 14
Color Line Sound Timing


Change Vocabulary Set . . . . . . 18


Study . . . . . . . . . 21


Begin the Self Test . . . . . . . 23


Glossary . . . . . . . . . 26


Order Form . . . . . . . . 31

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Introduction

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Kapian means "cards" or "flash cards" in Chinese.
The use of flash cards has long been considered an
important part of studying European languages. A word
from one language is put on one side of the card and the
translation of that word in a different language is put
on the other side. This is repeated for all the
vocabulary you want to study. The deck of cards is then
shuffled and the student looks at one side and tries to
remember the other word. But the student of Chinese has
been faced with a more complicated problem. Here you
need to study 1) the Chinese character (either Long or
Short Form), 2) the romanized sound, in the particular
dialect you want to learn (Mandarin for instance,
romanized perhaps in Pinyin), and 3) the English
meaning. You needed either a three-sided card or three
decks of cards at the very least. Now there is a third
choice. You can use the computer program KAPIAN:
Chinese Flash Cards to study this age old language. Let
the computer shuffle the "Cards" and show them to you.
Kapian provides easy to follow menus, offers a great
assortment of study methods, and presents an attractive
appearance on the screen.

This manual is designed for the beginning users of
a computer. You will be walked through the steps one by
one. If you do not understand any terms, there is a
GLOSSARY in the back. The simple menu driven program is
described in great detail.

Every need of the student has been taken into
consideration. If you must study in a quiet place, you
can even turn the sounds of the title theme, warning and
mistake-beeps OFF. Kapian is designed for the person
who wants to study Chinese but who may know very little
about computers. With this program the student is not
limited to either Long or Short Form Chinese characters.
You can load and study either one. This is important
for the traveler or any one interested in a broad

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understanding of Chinese. The Long Form characters are
still used on Taiwan and in Hong Kong. The Short Form
has been adopted in the Peoples Republic of China. You
can easily and quickly choose any one of ten testing
displays:

Given Chinese characters in Long form, you select
romanization
Given Chinese characters in Short form, you select
romanization
Given Chinese characters in Long form, you select
English
Given Chinese characters in Short form, you select
English
Given English meaning, you select romanization
Given English meaning, you select Chinese characters in
Long form
Given English meaning, you select Chinese characters in
Short form
Given romanization, you select English
Given romanization, you select Chinese characters in
Long form
Given romanization, you select Chinese characters in
Short form

The program also draws all the characters on the
screen one stroke at a time, in correct stroke order.
You adjust the speed at which it writes these strokes.
If you want to watch and learn as the strokes are slowly
drawn, set the speed to SLOW or NORMAL. If you want to
quickly look at the characters for review or during a
self test, set the speed for FAST or NO DELAY.

Kapian does require an IBM computer or compatible,
and it must have a CGA graphics card (or, of course, you
could run a utility like SIMCGA and against a Hercules
Graphics card to simulate an IBM CGA environment). If
you have a color monitor, the colors can be changed when
you like. On a black and white you will only be
changing the shades of grey.

Finally even the thickness of the lines on the
screen can be changed. All of this means that Kapian is
not only versatile, easy to use, but it offers an
attractive display that you can customize to your
preference and mood.

Try studying Chinese this new modern way. And feel
free to pass this disk on to other students and teachers
of Chinese.

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Getting Started

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In order to use this program there are some system
requirements. This program runs on an IBM Personal
Computer or compatible. It requires a CGA graphics card.
You must have all the required files on the current
drive and directory.

The first step is always to make a backup copy of
the disk for protection from all those unspeakable
things that threaten computer data on floppies. Put
your original in drive A: and a blank formatted floppy
in drive B:

COPY A:\*.* B:\*.*

Then put your original in a safe place (I like to
put a write protect tap on my originals) and begin to
use the copy.

You can use this program by running it from a
floppy drive or from a hard drive if you have one. Now
put the work copy in drive A:. If you are going to run
it from drive A:, you can now go ahead.

If you have a hard drive and you want to run it
from there you can copy these files to any sub-directory
on that drive.

For hard drive users, first change drives:

C:

Then make a sub-directory, perhaps named Kapian:

MD KAPIAN

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Then copy the files to that sub-directory, in this
case Kapian:

COPY A:*.* C:\KAPIAN\*.*

Then change directories:

CD KAPIAN


In either case you should find all these files when
you do a directory inquiry command:

DIR


*********************
Required files
*********************

KAPIAN.EXE -- Is the executable program that allows
you to study and practice either: the Chinese
characters, the English meaning, or the romanized sounds
of the Chinese vocabulary, in various combinations. It
also provides a variety of display choices and Long Form
or Short Form Chinese characters.

GONGKE.ARC -- The Gongke or lessons are stored
here. This file is a data base of Chinese Lessons. It
needs to be unarchived, and then you will see the lesson
files that are available. The lesson file names reveal
a lot of information about the vocabulary in the file
once you know the code. When you extract this file --
sort of like unwrapping a box -- out will come many more
files. So the first file you probably will use will be
: FOREIA01.PIN. Like the other files that are in
GONGKE.ARC, FOREIA01.PIN is a name with special meaning:
The first five letters are the first five letters of the
author's name (In this case this is FOREI for FOREIgn
Languages Press of Beijing, China). The next letter in
the file name identifies the text book series (In the
shareware disk this is A for Elementary Chinese
Readers). The next part of each file's name are two
digits that tell you the set of vocabulary covered ( 01
to 05 for the first volume in this text book series).
And finally the three letter extension tells you the
romanization method used in that file (.PIN for Pinyin).
Pinyin is the romanization that is used in Elementary
Chinese Readers. The first 5 files come with the
Shareware disk; licensees will get notices when a new
bigger version of GONGKE.ARC with more files becomes
available. (If you are a licensee, you also get the

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program: GONGKE.EXE that will allow you to make your own
lesson files, and HANZI.EXE that will allow you to make
Chinese characters.

LONG.FRM -- This is a data base of Chinese
characters in Long Form; it is made and added to by the
program HANZI. All the characters you need for the
lesson files in GONGKE.ARC are included in this file.

SHORT.FRM -- This is a data base of Chinese
characters in Short Form. It also is made and added to
by the program HANZI. All the characters you need for
the lesson files in GONGKE.ARC are also here, but about
a third are different in appearance.

BIAN.SHU -- Bianshu means variable, and this file
remembers the values of the various display settings you
chose the last time you used Kapian.

KAPIAN.DOC -- This file contains the documentation.
You are now reading KAPIAN.DOC. You can print this
file.

PKXARC.COM -- From PKWARE Inc. allows you to extract the
GONGKE.ARC just as you may have used it to unarchive the
KAPIAN.ARC distribution file.

All the lessons files are packed neatly into one big
file called GONGKE.ARC. So your first step is to unpack
them, or extract them; so type and enter:

PKXARC GONGKE

The listing of all the lesson files you have will
start to show up on the screen. Now you are ready to run
the program.

The first time you run Kapian the sound will be set
on, by the existing parameter file, BIAN.SHU. So a
theme song will play, if you are in a place where this
will disturb others you may want to make sure you start
with the sound off. There is a special silent parameter
file included QUIET.ONE. For silent running the first
time off, you could use that file as your bianshu
(parameter):

DEL BIAN.SHU

COPY QUIET.ONE BIAN.SHU

Now when you start Kapian it will look at this new
BIAN.SHU for default values and the sound will not be
on.

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To run the program type:

KAPIAN

and enter. When you type and enter this, the program
title will appear on the screen. If you have set SOUND
ON the last time you ran the program, the theme song
will start to play. When this is done, you press any
key; and the character and lesson files are loaded into
memory. This will take about 30 to 40 seconds.


******************
Main Menu
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Then a menu appears.

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This is the MAIN MENU.


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Tuorial: study how to study

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At the top of the MENU SCREEN is a selection called
Program Information, it is here you can select the
PROGRAM INFORMATION SCREEN. You may as well start at
the top.


***************************
Program Information
***************************

Like most activity in Kapian this also runs in what
is called "HOT KEY" mode. That is, you only need to
touch the key to make your selection. You do not need
to hit the key:

P

Now you should have a screen that tells you some
basic information about the program. You return to the
MAIN MENU by pressing any key.


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Changing Test Defaults

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Kapian offers a variety of methods and manners of
self testing and a simple method of choosing between
them. The next area you will want to use is that marked
"Change Test Defaults" in the MAIN MENU. In order to
bring up the CHANGE TEST DEFAULTS SCREEN press:

T

This menu will then appear in the upper half of the
screen:



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³ GIVEN CHINESE CHARACTERS ³
³ SELECT ENGLISH MEANING ³
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³ F Form of character: SHORT FORM ³
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You may be happy with this set of current
selections and just leave this menu by selecting "Quit":

Q

As you will find all through this program "Q" will
return you to the previous menu. You will be returned
to the MAIN MENU SCREEN.



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Given vs Select
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If you want to change to a new manner of testing on
the same vocabulary here is where you can select between
6 possible types. If you want to change the current
practice display, you select "Given vs Select":

G

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³ GIVEN CHINESE CHARACTERS ³
³ SELECT ENGLISH MEANING ³
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³ 2 CHARACTERS, SELECT ENGLISH ³
³ 3 ENGLISH, SELECT ROMANIZATION ³
³ 4 ENGLISH, SELECT CHARACTERS ³
³ 5 ROMANIZATION, SELECT ENGLISH ³
³ 6 ROMANIZATION, SELECT CHARACTERS ³
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The six possible screen arrangements for practice
will be shown at the bottom of the screen and numbered 1
to 6. You will have to select one of these. If you
want the same choice as the current selection or if you
want a new one, just press the number beside your
choice. The bottom half of the screen will clear, and
the CHANGE TEST DEFAULT SCREEN will be changed to
reflect your choice.


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Form of Character
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When you want to change to the other "Form of
Character", here is also where you have that choice. If
you want to change the current form and study the other
form of Chinese characters chose, "Form of Character":

F

The two possible character forms will be listed at
the bottom of the screen, and you must select either:

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On which form of Chinese characters
do you want to be tested?

1 SHORT FORM
2 LONG FORM

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Once you have done this, it will take another 30 to
40 seconds for the new character file to be loaded; then
the CHANGE TEST DEFAULT SCREEN will be changed to
reflect your choice, and the bottom of the screen will
be blank again.

Again, if you type

Q

you would be returned to the MAIN MENU SCREEN.


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Change Display Defaults

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Next you may want to use the "Change display
defaults." So select:

D

The CHANGE DISPLAY DEFAULTS SCREEN will appear:




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³ GIVEN CHINESE CHARACTERS ³
³ SELECT ENGLISH MEANING ³
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³ F Form of character: SHORT FORM ³
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³ Q Quit ³
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³ 1 CHARACTERS, SELECT ROMANIZATION ³
³ 2 CHARACTERS, SELECT ENGLISH ³
³ 3 ENGLISH, SELECT ROMANIZATION ³
³ 4 ENGLISH, SELECT CHARACTERS ³
³ 5 ROMANIZATION, SELECT ENGLISH ³
³ 6 ROMANIZATION, SELECT CHARACTERS ³
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***********
Color
***********

If you have a color monitor any time you get bored
with the current color of your screen, you can come to
this screen and easily change it:

C

The different color combinations that are available
will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. You must
choose one:

-------------------------
Do you want:

1 WHITE ON RED
2 WHITE ON BLUE
3 GOLD ON RED
4 GOLD ON BLUE
5 GOLD ON BLACK
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Once you have made your choice, the bottom will go
blank, and the choice will be seen, this time both in
the new display and the new colors. If you have a black
and white screen it will show new shades of grey.


******************
Line width
******************

You also have the chance here to see the characters
take on a slightly different look by changing the width
of the lines the computer uses to draw them:

L


These choices will show up when you press L:

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1 WIDE LINES
2 NARROW LINES
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The choice again is yours. Once you make it, you
will be returned to the CHANGE DISPLAY DEFAULTS screen;
and this time you will see the new look you have
selected.

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Sound
*************

Even though the introductory title song is pretty
and the sounds that can come from this program can be
helpful in determining your progress with Chinese,
there are times when you don't want any noise:

S

So you can make that change:

-------------------------
Do you want the sound:

1 ON
2 OFF

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The sounds of the opening theme, error warnings,
and mistake alarms can be turned OFF or ON here. If you
select OFF, you will only have the error screens to warn
you of your wrong answers or wrong key strokes. But
you can always come back here and turn the sound ON
again when you feel it won't disturb anyone.


*************
Timing
*************

Changing the timing is another one of the controls
that can be customized to fit into any study schedule.
The speed that the characters can be drawn on the screen
greatly affects the speed of your study and practice;
but it also allows you to study an important part of the
language, stroke order. If you make an effort to
understand stroke order, you may someday understand some
Chinese script, running hand :

T

The choices as usual are displayed in the bottom of the
screen:

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How long should the computer
take to draw a character

1 SLOW SPEED
2 NORMAL SPEED
3 FAST SPEED
4 NO DELAY

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You may find, for instance, that you will want to
watch the character get drawn slowly while you study, or
when the character is the given form, in the test. Then
you may want to come here and change to FAST or NO DELAY
when you are given an English meaning and are selecting
from the four Chinese character combinations at the
bottom of the screen. This, like the other defaults,
can be switched back and forth whenever you like.

As before:

Q

QUITS this menu and returns you to the MAIN MENU.



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Change Vocabulary Set

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Once you have mastered one level of your Chinese
studies you will want to go on and begin on a new set of
vocabulary. At that time select "Change Vocabulary Set"
from the MAIN MENU:

V

It is here,at the CHANGE VOCABULARY SET SCREEN,
that you select a new lesson file to study. You do this
by selecting a new file name. The first lesson file,
the one that comes initially with the first run of
Kapian is FOREIA01.PIN. Before you "unpacked" it with
the PKXARC GONGKE command, it was a part of the
GONGKE.ARC file. Kapian loaded it because it was
initially named in the parameter file BIAN.SHU. You can
now change that.



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³ FOREIA01.PIN ³
³ is now loaded into KAPIAN ³
³ do you want to change that? ³
³ Yes or No ( Y/ N) ? ³
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If you select:

N

you are returned to the MAIN MENU.

The files that come with the Shareware Version are:

FOREIA01.PIN
FOREIA02.PIN
FOREIA03.PIN
FOREIA04.PIN
FOREIA05.PIN

These match the first volume of a textbook series by
Beijing's Foreign Languages Press. More files come with
the Licensee version.

If you select:

Y

the new bottom of the screen will look like this:

-------------------------
1..5 First 5 letters of the file = first 5
letters of author's name
FOREI = Foreign Languages Press.
6 What textbook series A..Z
7..8 What lesson number 01..99
9 What romanization method;
P=PIN, W=WAD, Y= YAL, C=CAT

12345678.9

_
-------------------------

So to load another file in that series of files you
will type in:

FOREI

to signify the author; next you will type in:

A

That was used for Elementary Chinese Readers, a series
of 4 volumes. You can also purchase tapes to accompany
these textbooks. This is the textbook series used at
Sacramento City College, where I studied. You can

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purchase the books and tapes from : China Books and
Periodicals, 2929 Twenty-fourth Street, San Francisco,
CA. 94110.

Of course this same basic vocabulary is common to
many beginning level Chinese text books. Next you will
enter the file number; it must be two digits, for
instance:

02

this will give the second lesson file in the series of 5
files for the first volume of Beginning Chinese Readers.
The first Volume of Elementary Chinese Readers has 26
lessons; They have been put in 5 files. Each file
contains about fifty English meanings, so here will be
about a 250 word vocabulary. The Chinese translation of
these English words requires about 270 Chinese
Characters. Licensed users will be informed when new
larger vocabulary sets are ready. They can also make
their own additional lesson files to match other text
books with the program GONGKE. They can also add to both
LONG.FRM and SHORT.FRM character files with the program
HANZI.EXE.

You will have to select the romanization method
you want to study. Even though this textbook uses
Pinyin some files will be made available to cover the
same vocabulary in different romanizations methods:
Yale, Wade Giles, or Cantonese. So you need to respond
to the question for position 9:

What romanization method: P=PIN, W=WAD, Y=YAL, C=CAT

The Shareware version files are all in Pinyin, so type:

P

With this last selection you will have completed the
coded name for the default lesson file; FOREIA02.PIN.
This will start the process of 1) Changing the parameter
file, 2) loading a new Gongke file into memory, and
3) loading its accompanying characters. This may take
about half a minute. When it is done, you will have
that new name displayed at the top of the screen where
the old file name was before.

You now go back to the MAIN MENU with a No answer to
the question: "Do you want to change that?"

N

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Study

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Kapian offers a easy way to study the current
vocabulary. Type the letter:

S

for "Study." you do not need to enter it.

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ÚÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄ¿ ³ ³
³ ÀÄÄÄÄÅÄÙ ÀÄÅÄÄÄÙ ³
³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÙ ³ ³
³ ³ _ ³ ³
³ ³ shan ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ mountain, hill ³ ³
³ ÚÄÄÄÄÅÄ¿ ÚÄÅÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ³ ÀÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÙ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÙ ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ






This is the STUDY SCREEN

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Display will appear showing the first Chinese
character in the current lesson, it's romanized sound,
and it's meaning. The Chinese character will be drawn
on the screen either : 1) SLOW ,2) with NORMAL DELAY
between strokes, 3) FAST, or 4) with NO DELAY (depending
on the default you used the last time you ran the
program).

You can choose either to continue viewing this
series of screens by selecting Next:

N


and the next meaning will appear, or you can QUIT at any
time by selecting:

Q

You will be returned to the MAIN MENU SCREEN at the
end of the series of STUDY SCREENS or when you select
"Q".

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Begin the Self Test

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It is hard to tell you what you will see when you
begin to test your knowledge of Chinese, because in a
real sense you have designed the test to suit what you
want to study at this time and the way you want to study
it.

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ÃÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄ´ ³
³ ³ ÚÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄ¿ ³ ³ ÚÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄ¿ ³ ³ ÚÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄ¿ ³ ³
³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÙ ³ ³
³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ³
³ _ ³
³ shan ³
³ ³
³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ³ ÚÄ¿ ³ ³ ³
³ ³ ÀÄÙ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ 1) ÀÄÄÄÄÄÙ 2) ÀÄÄÁÄÄÙ ³
³ ÚÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ÃÄÄÄ´ ³
³ ÀÄÂÄÙ ÚÄ¿ ³ ³ ³
³ 3) ÄÅÄ 4) ÀÄÙ ÀÄÄ´ ³
³ ³ ³ ³
³ ³
³ select correct answer or Quit ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ


Here is Pinyin romanization and you select the
Chinese characters.

You BEGIN TEST by typing:

B

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After that you may be looking at the Chinese
character and selecting the Pinyin romanization of its
sound, or you could be looking at the romanization of
the sound and selecting its English meaning. The Chinese
Characters could be in Long or Short Form, but there are
some things I can warn you about.

The screens you have selected will appear in a
different order each time you go through the test. The
choices at the bottom of the screen will also be
changed. You will either choose the number of the
correct answer 1 to 4 or Q for QUIT.

ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³ ÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³
³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄ¿ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÙ ³
³ ³
³ ³ ³
³ ³ ³ ³ ³
³ ÀÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÙ ³
³ ³
³ 1) to call, to be called ³
³ ³
³ 2) mountain, hill ³
³ ³
³ 3) to return ³
³ ³
³ 4) early ³
³ ³
³ select correct answer, or Quit ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

This is an example of being given Chinese
characters and selecting the English.

If you have selected sound ON, there are two sounds
that may occur at this time. If you hit a key that is
not a valid choice -- say a letter like "T" -- you will
hear an error warning sound; and an error screen will
appear, then the screen you were looking at will return.
If you choose the wrong number, a different mistake
alarm will sound, and a different error screen will
appear -- then the next BEGIN TEST SCREEN will show up.
If you make a mistake, the word will also be added to
those that will be listed for your review at the end of
the test.

If you have selected sound OFF, no sounds will be
made by the system during the running of this program --

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nor the next runs -- until you set it on again; only the
error screens will be seen when you make a mistake. You
can end the drill either by finishing the set of
vocabulary or QUIT at any time:

Q

If you made no mistakes, the screen will say so; or
the words you need to study will be displayed one at a
time, just as they looked when you saw them in
STUDY SCREENS. Again you will go through them with N for
NEXT; or, if you don't want to see them any more this
day, you can QUIT this also with a :

Q

Then you will be returned to the MAIN MENU.

You will probably want to use the full range of
test conditions that are available from this program.

Given Long form characters, select romanization
Given Short form characters, select romanization
Given Long form characters, select English
Given Short form characters, select English
Given English meaning, select Romanization
Given English meaning, select Long form characters
Given English meaning, select Short form characters
Given romanization, select English
Given romanization, select Long form characters
Given romanization, select Short form characters

Here you have 10 different tests for the same
lesson file. So you can keep busy practicing for quite
a while before you need to go on to new vocabulary.

Happy studying!

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Glossary

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ARCHIVE : A type of file in which other files have been
stored, usually in a compressed format. The file names
are invisible to the system. It is more efficient to
store and transport, over a data transmission line, an
archive file. GONGKE.ARC is an archive file. Also the
process of putting files into that archive file.
FOREIA01.PIN has been archived into GONGKE.ARC.


BIAN.SHU : Bianshu means a "variable",or "parameter" and
the file BIAN.SHU holds all the values that allow the
programs to come back to you looking just as you
left them the last time they were run.


CANTONESE : The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton
Province, near Hong Kong. The same Chinese Characters
are used by the Chinese to write Cantonese and Mandarin.
So if you want to study Cantonese, you only need to make
up new Lesson Files to reflect the new sounds of that
dialect.


CGA : Color / Graphics Adapter. This is a computer
board that must be installed in your computer before
Kapian, Gongke or Hanzi will run. It could be attached
to either a color or Black / White monitor. Some
graphics cards like Hercules, can be programmed to
emulate an IBM CGA.


COLORS: In this program the choice of colors is one
offered in the CHANGE DEFAULTS menu; and if you have a
true CGA and color monitor, the choices listed are the
colors that will be displayed on the screen. With a
black and white monitor you will see different shades of
gray. If your graphics card is not a true CGA, it may
show unpredictable colors.

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COMBINATIONS : Groups of Chinese characters that have
taken on a meaning beyond that of any one of the
characters. This program will display and allow you to
review combinations that contain up to 4 Chinese
characters.


DEFAULT : The previous or most recent setting made.
Here the default settings are recorded in the file
BIAN.SHU, and the programs all look there as part of the
start up routine. So the colors, sound ON/OFF, lesson
file, character form, etc., will all be the same as they
were the last time you ran any of these programs.

EXTRACT : To remove from an archived file. (see
Archive)


FORM OF CHARACTER : One change that the People's
Republic of China made after the revolution was the
change to a new form of some Chinese characters:
simplified form. About a third of the common Chinese
characters were changed. Kapian allows you to choose
which of these two forms you want to study.


GONGKE : Means "lessons". It is also the name of a
computer program that makes additional lesson files for
use by Kapian.


GRAPHICS CARD : A computer card that can be installed in
your computer. It allows certain types of graphics
modes to be displayed on your screen. Some graphics
cards like Hercules can be reprogrammed to emulate a IBM
CGA (see CGA), (see I.B.M.).


HANZI : Means "Chinese character"; it is also the name
of a computer program that creates new Chinese
characters that are added to one or both of the chinese
character files, LONG.FRM and/or SHORT.FRM.


HOT KEY: A mode of response to the key board that allows
some computer programs to use a key that is pressed
immediately without waiting for the transmit key being
pressed as well.


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HERCULES: A brand of computer graphics card.


I.B.M.: International Business Machines, Inc.


KAPIAN : means "cards" or "flash cards"; the program by
that name emulates flash cards and like them allows you
to practice the vocabulary you are learning.

MANDARIN : A dialect of spoken Chinese typical of
Beijing and Taiwan. These sounds are represented in the
roman alphabet by different methods: PinYin , Yale, Wade
Giles, to name a few.


LESSONS : Here "lessons" refer to individual files of
vocabulary that usually have about 50 English meanings
to study. They probably represent more than one chapter
in the average Chinese text book.


LONG FORM: The old traditional form of Chinese
Characters that are still used by Taiwan and Hong Kong.
These characters are in the LONG.FRM file ( see: FORM OF
CHARACTER).


PINYIN : On of many methods of romanizing the Mandarin
dialect of Chinese. The method used in the Peoples
Republic of China.


ROMANIZATION: The process of putting into roman alphabet
the sound of Chinese or other languages that are not
usually written using roman letters.


SHAREWARE : A computer program that is copyrighted; and
all rights are owned by the author, who has chosen to
allow distribution with a few restrictions on an
introductory basis. Users are expected to register, and
in return they get some extra consideration and
materials.


SHORT FORM : The new form of Chinese characters that are
in use in the People's Republic of China. These
characters are in the file SHORT.FRM (see: FORM OF
CHARACTER).

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TIMING : In this manual timing refers to the speed with
which the Chinese characters are displayed: from NO
DELAY to SLOW = 1 second between strokes. This is
intended to offer students a method of studying the
correct stroke order and is adjustable by selecting the
CHANGE DISPLAY DEFAULTS on the MAIN MENU and then the
TIMING on the next screen.


YALE : Is a method of romanizing the Mandarin dialect of
Chinese.


WADE GILES : Is a method of romanizing the Mandarin
dialect of Chinese.

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Order Form:


The registration of KAPAIN for $35 licenses you to
use the product on a regular basis.

Registration includes:
Kapian the latest version.
Gongke a lesson making program that allows you to
make your own lesson files to match exactly the
vocabulary , dialect, and romanization method you want
to learn.
Hanzi a Chinese character making program that adds
to the characters already in the LONG.FRM and/or
SHORT.FRM files.
Documentation for all three programs including
forms to help you plan your extended studies.
Mailed notification of updates and new or extended
data files as they become available.

--------------------------------------------------------
Phil Mosier
2728 Bridgeford Drive
Sacramento, CA 95833


Please send:

_______ Kapian (Current Version)..@ $ 35.00 each $_____
(includes registration plus GONGKE,
HANZI, documentation, sample forms)

California residents add 6.5% sales tax $_____

Total $_____

Send check or money order (no COD please)

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