Excellent, but could be improved
A version with traditional characters would make this more useable for many students. Also, more characters should be added regularly.
Please keep updating!
This is a great app. I always come back to it. When someone asks me what’s a good app for learning Chinese I recommend this one. 最好！
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I love it
Helpful in Learning Characters
This will not teach a person the Chinese language, but it makes a handy reference when one is working with pinyin and wants to see what the real words are. The progressive study has the worthy goal of quickly familiarizing a novice with Chinese text to make it less intimidating. The percentage learned status displayed here is deceptive, however. I have completed enough levels supposedly to be able to recognize over 60% of characters in typical text, but from my experiments with Chinese newspapers, it is closer to about 40%. The number of errors in the English text also increases in the later progressive lessons as if less proofreading were being done. An amusing example is where a bride is described as "newly web."
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Great APP
One of my top 5 APPS
I like that it shows you stroke order, and the color code when you write a stroke in the correct order.
I like that it shows you stroke order, and the color code when you write a stroke in the correct order.
One of my top ten Chinese apps
I can practice writing, and self test. The background information on the characters is useful for memory retention. The app works great, and I find myself reaching for it at least 2 times a week.
Great app, needs to add sentences next.
Great app for understanding the characters, especially under "Progressive Study." Sample sentences and phrases are provided but it would be great to practice writing simple sentences within the app by strokes.
I like the video animation for the stroke order, the examples of usage and definitions. Money well spent!
I like the video animation for the stroke order, the examples of usage and definitions. Money well spent!
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Fantastic!
This program is a great sublime to other learning you may be doing. It is white intense, but worth your time.
Great!
Great app!
Appropriate for more serious Mandarin learners.
Don't be fooled by the lack of fun animated games this app is actually quite helpful. Mandarin learners will benefit from the stroke order videos and character writing practice. A more advanced Chinese learner is able to recognize characters by their radicals, and this is one of the few apps that teaches basic stroke composition/radicals. Buy this app, practice writing with a real pencil and paper and you will be well on your way to understanding basic Chinese sentences through the meaning of characters. This app focuses more on characters than grammar or reading though so it's not perfect, but I haven't found a better app for learning Mandarin characters. The app even gives you the meaning based on the characters etymology and structure. Well designed app! Learn your Mandarin characters here and enjoy the animated apps like MindSnacks Mandarin for tonal/fast recognition studies. Don't buy this if you are just learning Mandarin for a quick week in China or don't plan on practicing the language through reading. This will not help the people who just need quick study to get by in China. Buy a phrase book in your local bookstore for that.
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Great app
Great app, I just think it should be updated with new lessons more often.
Trace and trace again.
This is a great way for beginners and above to learn and practice characters.
Excellent app!!
If you are learning Chinese you need this app. It's very interactive and has very detailed explanations of each character, making it easier to remember each one. It breaks you in very easily before getting quite heavy around the fifth unit. The tests are excellent and use good examples of the newly learned characters to get you used to seeing them used normally. I use this with a little Chinese character writing book for extra practice and I can read more and more Chinese now. Buy this app if you are serious about studying Chinese and you will never look back.
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上当啦
买了想给儿子学习用的，完全是糊弄外国人的货！恨不得退款
Beginning Chinese Student in China
I'm terrible at picking up languages orally. Before this app, I didn't know where to begin. Being able to write the characters of the phonemes I am learning helps me retain much more than I normally could through listening and speaking. I appreciate the clear audio along with the etymology of the graphemes as well as the different levels of usage. The combination of all the aforementioned factors make this app the most used of all my Chinese learning apps, except of, course, the dictionary.
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Excellent learning tool
Great help work from characters to English. Have recommended the package.
Good app
This is a good app for learning Chinese. It doesn't have any bid problems, but it would be nice to be able to hear the pronunciation whilst writing them and to be able to test if you remember how to write them, without the watermark.
Very helpful !!
I love it, because it shows you how to write each character. Have not seen another app like it. Only, the words pool is very limited. wish they would include more words, and even for some that are included the write option is not available.
Reveals the history of the character
Also has a very helpful dictionary which you can search for a character's meaning with. Or translate a English word.
Nicely done
Better than flash cards. This app helps make sense of the characters.
I love the practice sessions.
I love the practice sessions.
