Great app to practice Chinese characters
I wish this app can create lists from a CVS file format.
Just phenomenal
Thank you thank you thank you for not charging for this!! It’s exactly what I need out of an app for chinese. I already had apps ready for every other part of learning chinese, except for the characters. This way is fantastic! I don’t have to jump through a bunch of pay walls with this app (I.e. lingo deer) I love this part too: it’s sorted into many convenient vocab lists WITH SRS built in. Thanks for making an awesome app that everyone can use! Keep doing your thing!
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Great and Free
The app is very good at teaching the correct form of writing the characters. It’s study mode also adapts the practice to focus on what you need to work on. Overall it’s incredible to be able to learn and practice Chinese without having to pay some kind of ridiculous subscription.
Free, not wifi-restricted, effective
This app is excellent for learning to write Chinese characters with the correct stroke order. There is no charge for downloading and there are no ads, and it is even contained within your phone, ipad or computer so you don't need to connect to the internet to use.
I have only two gripes:
1) Font: The characters are in a font that differs from the standard digital form for characters you'll get when using a Chinese keyboard or browsing the web in Chinese. Having said this, one could make the argument that being able to recognise characters flexibly would make your reading better and be useful since the characters are far from fixed in form when used in real life- especially people's handwriting!
2) Personal Input: the app does not contain many premade decks, which is certainly understandable. This meant I had to use the search function to find and collect the characters I wanted to study (specifically the top 1,000 most common characters). Mind, it was no special nor difficult effort to find said characters; the app seems to have pretty much any character you're looking for.
Overall an excellent app that works very well as SRS and as a quick practice tool when you've got a spare minute.
I have only two gripes:
1) Font: The characters are in a font that differs from the standard digital form for characters you'll get when using a Chinese keyboard or browsing the web in Chinese. Having said this, one could make the argument that being able to recognise characters flexibly would make your reading better and be useful since the characters are far from fixed in form when used in real life- especially people's handwriting!
2) Personal Input: the app does not contain many premade decks, which is certainly understandable. This meant I had to use the search function to find and collect the characters I wanted to study (specifically the top 1,000 most common characters). Mind, it was no special nor difficult effort to find said characters; the app seems to have pretty much any character you're looking for.
Overall an excellent app that works very well as SRS and as a quick practice tool when you've got a spare minute.
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Add pictures for words?
Possible to add pictures for each word? And possible to share the word lists? I am a Chinese teacher and want my kids to learn at home but the parents may not be able to type the words into the list, if I can share the list and they can import, that would be great.
Great app for helping a youngster to learn chinese
I looked at a few different programs and the combination of custom lists + visualization of stroke order makes this app indispensable and unique for teaching chinese words according to a curriculum.
Excellent tool
This is the helpful app for me to memorize Chinese characters. Plus, it has a writing practice to practice with. Awesome work there.
Clearly state that there’s a setting for Traditional Chinese
Update as of 08 July 2019
Reduced my original 5 to 4 to finally just 3 stars:
No developer support
No update on bugs (e.g., app crashes randomly)
Some definitions are confusing
Some characters have errors between the strokes presented and the flash card (e.g., compare the characters for “discount” 折扣 zhe2kou4 in the writing test and flash card)
I wanted to love the app because it’s very effective in helping me expand my vocabulary (and practice writing the characters). However, as I progressed with the available lists of vocabulary, I felt I was getting confused because I had a little background on Traditional Chinese (and not Simplified Chinese) and wanted to learn the Traditional version. Long story short, I was messing up both versions because the app defaults to the Simplified version
I was about to give up on this app because I was moving backwards with my learning process UNTIL I started reading the comments and the developers were kind enough to point the settings out to another reviewer.
Suggestion: clearly state this info on the app description. That is to say— make sure that you inform the users that both versions are available.
This should help your users find you. :-)
Great job on the app and many thanks!
(UPDATE as of April 11, 2019)
I originally gave this app 5 stars after using it for a couple of weeks but reduced it to 4 for the following reasons:
1) Found some errors/ confusing words.
2) There’s no way to report an error.
Specifically:
1) The words for family/ household (家 and 傢) are interchangeably used/ presented. After a quick search, both are apparently accepted but the HSK1 deck does not explain or clearly shows this. The writing practice requires 傢 but the flash card shows 家.
2) Similarly, the characters for rear/ behind (後面 and 後麵) are used interchangeably.
These may seem trivial but these are just 2 instances that can cause confusion. Ultimately, I hope the developer provides a feedback mechanism for the app.
Reduced my original 5 to 4 to finally just 3 stars:
No developer support
No update on bugs (e.g., app crashes randomly)
Some definitions are confusing
Some characters have errors between the strokes presented and the flash card (e.g., compare the characters for “discount” 折扣 zhe2kou4 in the writing test and flash card)
I wanted to love the app because it’s very effective in helping me expand my vocabulary (and practice writing the characters). However, as I progressed with the available lists of vocabulary, I felt I was getting confused because I had a little background on Traditional Chinese (and not Simplified Chinese) and wanted to learn the Traditional version. Long story short, I was messing up both versions because the app defaults to the Simplified version
I was about to give up on this app because I was moving backwards with my learning process UNTIL I started reading the comments and the developers were kind enough to point the settings out to another reviewer.
Suggestion: clearly state this info on the app description. That is to say— make sure that you inform the users that both versions are available.
This should help your users find you. :-)
Great job on the app and many thanks!
(UPDATE as of April 11, 2019)
I originally gave this app 5 stars after using it for a couple of weeks but reduced it to 4 for the following reasons:
1) Found some errors/ confusing words.
2) There’s no way to report an error.
Specifically:
1) The words for family/ household (家 and 傢) are interchangeably used/ presented. After a quick search, both are apparently accepted but the HSK1 deck does not explain or clearly shows this. The writing practice requires 傢 but the flash card shows 家.
2) Similarly, the characters for rear/ behind (後面 and 後麵) are used interchangeably.
These may seem trivial but these are just 2 instances that can cause confusion. Ultimately, I hope the developer provides a feedback mechanism for the app.
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Outstanding: forget Skritter - just use this!
I have tried many apps for learning to write Chinese characters and this is far and away the best. The only other one that even comes close is Skritter, but that takes forever to re-test characters that you got wrong, the iPhone version is full of bugs, and you have to pay a subscription fee for it, whereas Noodle Chinese has none of those problems and it’s free! This is a truly outstanding learning tool.
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Excellent study app for chinese
I love this app. WAY better than Skritter Chinese in terms of review and study. The study function algorithm is excellent. It really picks up what you don’t know and makes you repeat it several times early on (in different ways) before introducing the next word (so if you have a long list you don’t have to wait forever for it retest you again, which by then you have forgotten)! Excellent way to study, especially when learning new words. Great for those who want to jump into learning chinese and don’t need someone to hold your hand. I also really like the ability to form your own custom list! BTW, traditional characters is supported. It can only be changed from IPhone Settings for Noodle app NOT within the app itself. Hopefully it can up updated later, but not a big deal. SUGGESTION: ability to import lists from other Chinese apps into this app would be really nice.
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