Great app
I love the functionality of this app. The text sizes are short with manageable words. It allows me to practice reading characters and building my vocabulary wherever I am. It’s really easy to use and practical.
An absolute must have app!
This app helps you to better understand Chinese sentence structure without even trying! I’ve studied Chinese characters for a long time and Reading them in sentences is necessary for completely understanding each individual character. This App has so many different stories to study from! I love it!
Love It, But Needs Lifetime Subscription
I really like this app, and recommend it as a great tool for learning both reading and listening skills. However, the one thing it could really use is a lifetime subscription option. Please consider adding this!
Useful and good value
In my opinion, the app itself is faster and better designed than its main competitor. There’s plenty of content here, but I do miss the daily news stories in the competitor’s app, they were fun.
The English translations and word definitions are good, but they could do more to explain grammar and sentence patterns. The devs should check out Satori Reader, which I consider to be the gold standard for this kind of app.
The English translations and word definitions are good, but they could do more to explain grammar and sentence patterns. The devs should check out Satori Reader, which I consider to be the gold standard for this kind of app.
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Amazing Chinese learning app
Amazing app to help you learn Chinese. The content itself is enjoyable which makes it easier to study and put in the hours. Learn a lot of cultural differences and nuances. They give you everything you need including optional pin yin, audio, definitions, translations, etc. One of the best apps out there to help you learn Chinese
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Versatile in its own way
I never liked learning languages from apps that guide you with lessons and vocabulary categories because you have to follow what the app tells you and you HAVE to pass the lesson in order to move on.
But with this app, you can go at your own pace and basically teach yourSELF. And I feel so comfortable with it. I’m learning WORDS and GRAMMAR and SENTENCE STRUCTURE all at the SAME TIME. Beautiful app.
But with this app, you can go at your own pace and basically teach yourSELF. And I feel so comfortable with it. I’m learning WORDS and GRAMMAR and SENTENCE STRUCTURE all at the SAME TIME. Beautiful app.
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Favorite mandarin app
Hands down my favorite tool for studying Mandarin. Wonderful for extensive reading. Their adapted stories are actually compelling, which makes reading so much more fun. The audio recordings are wonderful. My only concern is reading so fast that I run out of their stories!
Great app if you want to read more classic Chinese stories like romance of the three kingdoms.
Great app if you want to read more classic Chinese stories like romance of the three kingdoms.
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The only language learning app I use
Love this app, thanks guys 👍
One idea - it would be cool to be able to “shuffle “ audio within a certain proficiency level to test your listening at random
A link to radical / character etymology would be cool, appreciate could be difficult as not easy to find this information online in my experience
One idea - it would be cool to be able to “shuffle “ audio within a certain proficiency level to test your listening at random
A link to radical / character etymology would be cool, appreciate could be difficult as not easy to find this information online in my experience
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The best app I have ever used
This app is so incredible that not only did it help me achieve my life ambition of being able to read Chinese literature unaided, it also partly inspired me to pursue a career in software development
A beautiful example of how an expertly crafted application can make a tangible difference to people’s lives
It offers an incredibly smooth, totally bug free user experience and more importantly is so effective that you start to see immediate and significant progress in your Chinese reading ability
Hands down the best app I have ever used - worth every penny
A beautiful example of how an expertly crafted application can make a tangible difference to people’s lives
It offers an incredibly smooth, totally bug free user experience and more importantly is so effective that you start to see immediate and significant progress in your Chinese reading ability
Hands down the best app I have ever used - worth every penny
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一年后
After a year’s patronage of Du Chinese, I can confidently say this app along with its desktop version, were instrumental in my progress. Seems like all the good things have already been noted by other users, but I do want to emphasize a few things. I am so impressed that the hover-definitions show the exact usage and context of the word within the sentence/story. The UX is beautiful and interface is responsive, ability to change fonts (on app) has helped my character recognition immensely, and even the thumbnail graphics are enticing. Most importantly, the content. Regarding the article lessons, I am very impressed at the range of social, cultural, and even entertainment news, all done in a relatively neutral tone. My favorite are the classic stories. I grew up in the US with the likes of Crime and Punishment and the Magic School Bus as cultural references, so it’s quite enlightening and even exciting to have the ancient Chinese classics available, albeit abridged for the eager learner. I use this material (at the moment, it’s the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” series) in my live classes, so my native Mandarin-speaking teacher is able to impart even more insight to us that we can relate to as adult readers, whilst we consume comprehensible input at our own graded reader levels. Thank you DC team!!!
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