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Why no pitch accent?

The Chinese part is really great. The Japanese would be really great if it included pitch accent.

srichmd

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. We don't have an immediate plan to add the feature, but we will keep your feedback in mind as we continue to improve our service. If you have any other concern and problems, please feel free to contact our support from the app!

The best lower-intermediate Chinese app

I spent so much time trying to find a decent solution. The big apps never did it. Not enough character reading, not enough new vocabulary, etc

This app has solved all my needs. I have been able to memorize 1000 words, and their characters in the amount of time that it took me to learn my first 300 characters alone

It’s amazing. Try it

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reviewer21232

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your great review! Please feel free to contact our support if you have any concern and problems. Happy studying!

Bug in 5.2.8 Needs to Be Fixed

I formerly rated this app 5 stars but unfortunately a bug in the most recent version is driving me crazy. I use the return key to hit the “Next” on the iPad app with an external keyboard. Unfortunately, in 5.2.8, you have to hit return twice to select next. When you are reviewing hundreds of words per session, this extra stroke up adds up quickly and my hands have started to hurt due to the extra stress of this repetitive motion. I hope this is fixed quickly and I can revert my review to 5 stars because other than this one super annoying bug the app is wonderful.

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TheUserDylan

4 years ago

Chinese-The Best

After searching and using 99% of the Chinese apps, this is in my top 5. It’s the most well rounded and user friendly course that actually helps early intermediate students continue inhaling vocabulary and sentences mining in an interesting way.

I’m hoping that the developers continue to build on the Chinese courses because they’re sitting on a gold mine. Genuine Chinese language apps for the early intermediate self learner are scarce and this is the best on the market in my opinion.

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dannyc386

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for studying Chinese on iKnow!. So glad to hear your great review! If you have any concern and questions, feel free to contact us anytime from the app:)

Worth the cost

I’m one of those procrastinators who studies for a few months and then stops for...more. During my non-procrastination time, iKnow has always given me the best learning rate of any tool. Everything has sentences, with full audio, Japanese text is always bigger than English text. Premade courses, a mode to study all your courses together, and my favorite thing: a sentence listening mode.

Great for people like me who can listen along while working or working out. Passive learning when you are doing something else is better than no learning. It’s too bad the PC version doesn’t have it.

The subscription cost keeps me longer before I fall back into bad habits (no app can fix my laziness but this one holds me the longest). It’s just easier to be motivated longer when you have to pay and get your money’s worth !

It’s in big thanks to this app that I can play video games in Japanese.

Things I would love to see in the future: for each course to have a “story”, or multiple, that utilizes most of the vocabulary that was in said course. Sentences are great, but having short stories to test my understanding with would be even more awesome.

And for the PC version to someday get the sentence listening mode.

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LaCaren

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your great review!! We are so glad to hear that "no app can fix my laziness but iKnow! holds you the longest". Thank you for your valuable feedback about the content and listening mode. We will take your suggestion into consideration as we plan our future developments to improve the overall usability of our service.

本当上手！

My Japanese is not the best it can be right now, but with iKnow’s help my vocabulary has been improving remarkably. I am edging closer to fluency, thanks in big part to this app.

Garanthrasio

5 years ago

Response from developer

ご利用ありがとうございます！Thanks for your great review! We hope you enjoy studying on iKnow! for a long time to come.

An excellent app

I love this app! It’s fantastic to be able to hear how to pronounce and use the words you are learning in a sentence.

It would be even better if they could incorporate a mnemonics system to help you to remember the kanji.

I am currently using this app and a few books to create mnemonics to remember the kanji I am learning.

One minor gripe - I wish that the price of pro was listed in £/$ rather than yen as I had to look up the currency conversion before taking the plunge and purchasing pro.

Overall a very well made app and I will use it for a long time.

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Sophia spooky

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your valuable feedback and great review! We will keep your feedback in mind as we continue to improve our service. Happy studying! Please feel free to contact our support from the app :)

I’m poor

Great app but it’s too expensive

djchsvduvhs

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for using our service! We announce a discount campaign and free coupons every once in a while, but we cannot inform our users about it in advance or offer you the closed campaigns. We would appreciate your understanding on this and please check our web site and Social media (Facebook and Twitter) from time to time for upcoming information. Facebook： https://www.facebook.com/iKnowJP Twitter：@iKnowTeam

Ok, but not enough of a trial to purchase.

It seems like a decent app, but 5 ‘sessions’ or quizzes is not enough for me to decide if I want to pay a steep subscription fee. I’d need at leas a few weeks to try it out.

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your valuable feedback. We'll take it in mind to improve our service!

Good but not great

If only it gave you an option to learn by Kana and switch off the Kanji. Frustrating as a beginner to use Kanji when you study hiragana and katakana and all words and sentences have Kanji included. Not well thought through for the user.

Nate＿Beck