Sino-sztorik is a language course for Hungarian learners of Chinese. It teaches the 3000 most common Chinese characters through visual associations and stories.
The project was bootstrapped with Create React App, uses the MUI component library, and is connected to a MySQL database through a Node.js/Express backend.
This repository is retired and the live demo is no longer available. The course is being remade from scratch under a new name.
The course content is available after signing up. The 3000 most common Chinese characters are divided into lessons with around 20 characters each. New lessons introduce new character elements that make up characters.
Furthermore, commonly used characters are prioritized while rarer ones are introduced later. For this reason, the course is also divided into 4 tiers. Finishing all lessons in one tier grants access to the next tier, where already known character elements are revisited to introduce less commonly used characters.
- Tracks user progress, unlocking new lessons in a linear fashion
- Doubles as a "learner's Chinese dictionary": phrases, additional meanings and easily confusable characters are listed for each Chinese character
- Admin screen to create, edit and delete characters (some features unavailable at the moment)
- A playful light and an elegant dark theme, with conscious color choices to distinguish between a character's actual meaning and its meaning as a character component
- A search function where any Chinese character can be looked up
- Add story illustrations
- Add missing features to the admin screen and redesign the Admin dashboard and the Similar Characters screen
- Security fixes
- Improve "learn" screen, with a "preview pane" instead of a popper for character references
- Optimize SQL queries
...and much more.