Contents

Basics

Disclamer

Quick Start

Introduction

Features

License

Character Map

The character map shows part or all of the Unicode range on-screen with each symbol labeled with its corresponding Unicode number. You can specify the range in decimal or Hexadecimal according to your requirements. In the same way, you can choose to show the labels as Decimal, Hexidecimal, or have no labels. By default the characters are formatted as text, however you can output in HTML table format if that suits your needs better.

Configuring Options

The settings page allows you to configure how Benkyou Studio Works and looks: Main:     UiTheme - The colour scheme of the interface     UiIcons - The icon set of the main menu     Invert Icons - Swap the colors of the icons (has no function on default theme)     UI Language pack - change the UI language     Primary Language - your language, only works on some quiz configurations     Study Language - language you are learning, only works on some quiz configurations     Native languages - Languages you are fluent in, quiz does not alter (eg char swap) native languages     Menu Layout - Menu Icon size options     UI Opacity - make the software see through - good for studying while watching movies     Speech - Speech can work during Quiz or Quiz and Mouseflash depending on your choice     IME mode - the default IME setting in the Dictionary      Quiz:         QuizScales - Size of the quiz, 1 is good for small screens, 1.75 for HD     Quizlength - the number of questions in a quiz round     Min zero words - when the number of words with a score of 0 or less gets below this, new words will "awaken", -1 disables zero words, all new words will be active     AutoSet MinZW - set MinZeroWords to the square-root of the words on your wordlist, this will allow minzerowords to increase as your wordlist gets bigger.     Words to awaken - no of words to awaken once Min Zero words is reached Mouseflash:     Fontscale - the size of the mouse flashcard text     Opacity - how see through the text is     update - number of milliseconds between updates     position - where the flashcard is relative to the mouse cursor Developer options: Most users will not want these     Extra features - enable Developer menu and debugging tools     Auto add to langpack - adds untranslated parts of the UI to the langpack - used for UI translation     Detailed scores - saves extra info on how often you answered questions

Creating you own language files

Multi-Currency Calculator

Benkyou Studio includes a Multi-currency calculator All calculations are performed in the left panel in your preferred currency. The equivalent converted values are shown in the right hand panel. Changing the "Foreign Currency" drop-down will reconvert the values, so you can switch between foreign currencies to see the values in different currencies. Please note, Division and Multiplication operations are not converted, as these are assumed to not be currency values For example, if you want to calculate buying 10 Five pound items in Yen: Set Local to GBP, Set Foreign to JPY and Type 5 X 10 this will convert the 5 to yen, the 10 is a multiplier so is unchaged.

10 Five pound items in Yen

If you need to add different currencies together, you should use the conversion buttons on the bottom right of the calculator First set your local currency, and select an foreign currency - Right clicking on the button will set it to the selected foreign currency (it will stay the same even if you change the dropdowns) For example, if my home currency is GBP, and I want to know how much my holiday money is worth, I have 10 dollars, 5 euros and 1000 yen. To start I need to set the buttons to USD,EUR and JPY Now I type 10 and press "USD" (10 dollars is converted to pounds) Next I press + and type 5 then "EUR" (5 euros is converted to pounds) Now I press + and type 1000 then "JPY" (1000 yen is converted to pounds) Pressing = will give a grand total. note the conversions used are shown as comments in the results If you need to update the exchange rates used use the "Set Rate" button, if your currency is not included use the xCST option... also note all currency info is held in the file "res/cfg/CurrencyConv.dat" you can change this file if you wish The "+Extra" button will include other common conversions of weights and distances etc. if you want to keep the calculation stages you can use the copy buttons "Copy Tab" puts the results in the clipboard in Tab separated format, this should paste fine into Excel "Copy ||" puts the results in the clipboard in two columns as they appear on-screen "Copy =" puts the results in the clipboard in Local lines first, followed by foreign currency

10 dollars + 5 euros + 1000 yen = 17.20 pounds. You can update the exchange rates, or add your own custom one

Quiz Study

The Quiz helps you learn new words, and tests your ability. You will be shown a word at the top of the screen, in either your native or study language, and a set of possible answers at the bottom, in the opposite language. You must click on the matching answer from the choices. When the answers are not in your native language the answers will vary and may have just one letter missing, or be half right, also the system knows the mistakes you may make, and will put in common misspellings and with languages like Japanese, will show Kanji with similar meanings When you click on the right answer you will progress to another word, if you click on the wrong answer, you will lose some time - the score of that word will change depending on how long it took you to get the answer right, and how often a word appears varies depending on its score. This way the quiz focuses on words you are weak at. Quiz Scoring All the words in your wordlist have a score between -20 and +20 words with low scores appear more often, words with high scores appear less. Depending on how quickly you answer, and if you get the answer right, the words score will go up or down, over time, the words you are good at will have higher scores, words you are bad at will have lower scores. The intention of the quiz is to get you to the stage that you can quickly know a word, so even answering right will lower your score a bit if you took too long A word you have just started learning starts with a score of 0 A word you have finished learning has a score of 21 A word you have not started learning has a score of 999 in the software "Zero Words" refers to words with a score of 0 or less, meaning you have not yet started learning them, or you have gotten them wrong. When there are no "Zero Words" (or they reach your specified level) the software considers that you are coping ok with the current number of words you are learning, and you can start learning some new ones... the intention is that this keeps you in the "Sweet spot" where you are constantly learning more, but do not feel overwhelmed Please note, the Average and ZeroWords shown in the title bar of the quiz are always one answer behind, BenkyouStudio is designed to work with study-lists of over ten of thousand words and multiple languages, and recalculating these every answer would take unnecessary time.

The quiz shows a number of possible answers, depending on well you are doing on that word. If you cant get the word right, the quiz will give you

SayIt

"SayIt" is a simple interface to the Text to speech routine. You can simply type any text you want in the box, and the Windows TTS engine will say it Alternatively, You can use the "Save to Wav" option to export the speech to a wav file If unspecified, the default system voice will be used, if you need a specific lanugage, you can select it from the dropdown, or by using "Text Command" Benkyou Studios TTS processor recognises "l>zzz`" as an instruction to change to a voice which can speak language zzz ... also it is possible to specify a voice by part of its name, eg "l>haruka`" will use "Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (ja-JP, Haruka)"

Settings File

Set up Speech Synthesis

Unicode Converter

The Unicode converter is designed for quickly looking up the character number of a symbol in a line of text or converting a line of symbols to a HTML safe equivalent or converting HTML code back to regular symbols The operation can be selected from the "Data type" drop-down If you require more complex conversions, please see the "Text Tricks" tool which provides more functionality>

WordList Editor

The Wordlist editor allows for alteration of words already on your studylist This can be used to make corrections to the words translation or to remove words from the wordlist The screen will show a range of the words on your wordlist, by default it will show words 0-16,000. Normally this will be your entire wordlist, however if your wordlist is very large, you may need to change this range and click "Refresh" to show a wider range If you need to change a word, you can do a search by typing your criteria in the "Find" box and clicking on Search The next match will be shown, and you can repeat the search by clicking find again The list at the top is not editable it is for searching and selecting only, The details of the item can be edited with the bottom pane The bottom pane shows all the "attributes" of the word, this will include various translations and your current score Please note, Benkyou Studio does not limit the attributes of a word on the list, so the attributes you see may vary depending on your study language, dictionary and studylist To change an attribute click on it in the list, and if needed enter a new value in the bottom box Click the "Update" button to update the attribute Note, it is not possible to change the name of an attribute, as these are global to the wordlist and may break the functionality of Benykou Studio