A learner
I like it the moment I started to use it. I love the ease to listen and the record my own voice. After a few tried I purchased the full app. I'm most satisfied
Mr
I like the app a lot. The pronunciation, listening and recording feature is very well implemented and useful. Some of the reviews are very unfair; Chinese is hard and you are not going to learn it from a free iPhone app. You will build your vocabulary and improve your "fayin" however.
Great for a free app
The sound is good, not STITCHED together like so many inferior language apps. Interface is good, also. If you are patient, and willing to wait 2000 days to get all the words of the full version (1 word a day), you get a tremendous app for cheap. I think you'd get all 2000, but I don't know. I've only had this app a short time and have about 8 words saved. The upgrade would be worth it as it's very good. For the $10 price, though, I'd rather see 5000 words, not 2000
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Frustrating
You only have access to one word a day, and if you miss it, it's just gone. Also -- who chooses these words? The weirdest combination I could ever imagine. How will I ever learn to form a sentence? "Mom, I'm taking a writ of habeus corpus to market," type thing. Well meaning, but not very useful. It'll be 10 years from now before I can say, "Hello! Where are the bathrooms?"
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Fun App - VERY Annoying Notifications
I've had this app since its inception and it is a fun little app for learning new Chinese words. Unfortunately, with the recent update, it now sends out annoying notifications telling you that a new version of it is available - even if you are on the current version. I dont mind the ads since it is a free app - but I dont need a pop-up reminder almost daily that a new version is available when A) there isn't and B) there are many other ways to find out about it without annoying pop-ups. As much fun as I have with this app, I am considering deleting it because of the annoying notifications. AND while I was thinking about upgrading to the paid version, this has pretty much killed that idea - irritation at a free product is not likely to make you want to pay for the full package - even if it makes the annoyance go away (and there is not surety about that!).
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Terrible
I've deleted this app from my phone and iTunes but it still keeps sending me a notification every night at midnight. There's no way to stop it!
Got me motivated to learn.
Taught me a lot. Easy to use. Inspired me to learn more.
Not Traditional
I like Traditional Chinese far better, but to get around in Mainland China, Simplified is a must... sigh... but I have to say application wise there is nothing I can see that is too faulty, except the number of characters included, but what can one except from an application that is practically free.
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Chinese!!!!
So I study Chinese, but we only use traditional in class, however on the main land simplified Chinese is the standard, so learning simplified Chinese is a must.
Since I do not study simplified at school, I need to study simplified CHinese at home, and this aplication makes it a lot easier. I use this with my studis of traditional Chinese characters so that I learn the simplified and the traditionl at the same time.
This is a great application that has made my life so much easier, and the time I need to spend learning before I become comfortable with tthe characters so much less. This is a great application, hands down!
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WordPower - Lite
I have 3 of these, Spanish, Japanese, and now Chinese. Love it! 1 word is day is good for me cause I'm doing like 17 languages at the same time, but sometimes if I want to study a little more, 1 word a day is limiting. But it's also good for people like me too. Cuase I'm busy. A+++++!!!! LOVE YOU WORDPOWER LITE!
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