Korean flashcards organizer for PC, Pocket PC and Palm OS

Stackz Learn Dialog optimized for Korean

The challanges of the Korean language

The Hangul writing system is not the most difficult on earth, but it must be learned. Once the student is fluent with the writing system, the words must be learned. There are two phases when learning Korean:

1. The initial effort for beginners before reading real texts consists in learning the Korean writing system. Dozens of characters and combinations must be mastered in order to allow reading full sentences and lookup words in the dictionary. This phase is somewhat critical because it is very likely that the absence of any success causes big feelings of frustration.
   
   • In this first phase, one of the biggest problems is the lack in motivation due to missing sense of achievement. Stackz increases the feeling of success with the proficiency representation using colors, giving an intuitive picture of the learning state - it's rather motivating to keep all the cards at a bright color! Details...
     
     
     
   • The PocketPC version of Stackz increases the motivation further by allowing short learning sessions at any place! Details...
     
     
     
2. For advanced students, the amount of mastered words becomes considerable, and words that are rarely encountered tend to be forgotten. To avoid this, reading more Korean texts is the typical, very time consuming reaction. If this big amount of time is not invested, the Korean proficiency is quickly decreasing.
   
   • If the phase of intensive Korean learning is over (e.g. after a university course or after returning from Korea to one's home country), the student's focus changes from "proficiency expansion" to "proficiency retention", trying to minimize both proficiency loss and invested time. Stackz allows to control the degrading proficiency over time and spend the time in the optimal way. Details...
     
   • With the PocketPC version of Stackz, unused moments of one's daily life can be turned into wisely spent time to refresh the Korean proficiency. Details...
     

The Stackz flashcard organizer supports the Korean language in many ways:

• Display Korean text on western Windows
  Stackz allows to display Korean text on all western Windows (Win 95 or later). For that purpose, an appropriate TTF font is required. There are many Korean TTF fonts available on the net. Links to Korean TTF fonts...
  
  
• Enter Korean text with the Microsoft IME
  If the Microsoft Korean IME is installed ony your system, it can be used to enter Korean characters in numerous places in the Stackz software. More details...
  
  
• Growing Wordlist archive
  There is a growing Korean section in the Stackz online archive. Visit the archive to find a list which caters to your needs and start learning with the Stackz flashcard organizer immediately!
  
  We are very interested in new Korean wordlists! Submissions of new wordlists are honored with a 50% discount on the purchase of a Stackz license. Details are here.
  
  

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