what is this supposed to do? I switched it on, but there are no sound effects. What did happen was that after every item i get a message like 'learned items, writing: +1' or something similar.

There are sounds for scoring a question at 1 or 4, the '+1' events as you mention, and sounds for time spent like 15min, 30min, 1 hour.

Can you hear the audio of each character and word as they are studied? the sound effects volume should be the same as that.

The volume on the sound effects is controlled by the same volume control as the syllable pronunciations, but the sound effects are quieter (so as not to be distracting). And I haven't actually made a sound effect for the +1 learned messages, so it's still a bit weird for those to be controlled by that setting.

I think what the OP is wanting, Nick, is more sound effects. Much like a Chinese fair ground shoot the balloons game. Basically, after every stroke you need a chorus of "太帮了！” ，“不错！”，and “很菜！”.

+ explosions. + dragons.

(Edit: 太棒了 )

Well, when we get that microphone, I'll make some dignified noises into it and see what I can't come up with!

If OP is Original Poster, than no, not exactly. :)

Just wondering what I was supposed to hear.