Good app - too few characters for advanced learning
The mnemonics are definitely good, the illustrations are solid, but this strategy I find is too slow to do for every character. Where I really need this is for the harder characters with similar appearances. While I like the system, it was missing too many characters to be of large utility.
If you read this after a while though I’d definitely see if the number of characters expands. I would definitely recommend.
If you read this after a while though I’d definitely see if the number of characters expands. I would definitely recommend.
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Love this app
I have books at home to help with Chinese learning, I’ve tried other apps to learn Chinese, however none of them have helped me in this way. I am definitely a visual learner and I love they incorporate the tones, memorization, and as well as picture stories to help you learn. I disagree with the lower reviews, this app is helpful as a beginner guide and great for starters who want to learn basics to the language. It definitely could use more reviews. I give it 5/5 stars.
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Great App
Great app. Combine with Scritter. Scritter has stronger beginner lists and better Chinese writing practice. However, these lists integrate just enough information (but not too much) in a very elegant manner for mnemonics that help you remember the tone, the way the charachter is drawn, and the way the charachter sounds. Major thanks to developer. Hoping you are able to get in 500 more words at least for the visualization stories. As this will be nearing a very important percentile. This was extremely well done.
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Not quite the Mandarin wani kani...
For those familiar with what a spectacular character learning app looks like (aka wani kani) this is noticeably lower quality. Can’t log into a free trial account across multiple devices, no automatic spaced repetition prompting including all covered characters, no vocabulary in spaced repetitions, no regular timing for spaced repetitions, the stories are over-complicated (the “heroes” should be the main characters, not random children, angels, truckers etc, this would make the tone, pronunciation and character much easier to remember and straightforward). Users should also have to type in the spelling rather than use multiple choice, this is much better for memorization. For a free trial maybe this is fine but if people are paying money to use this, the spaced repetition needs to be much more rigorous.
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Questionable content
From the wrong description of tian, to the repetition of simple words in upper levels, this app bothers me for how much better it could be of quality content would be put together with the method. Seriously, I love the method. The imagery is great. Please create stronger content to support a great design. I'll be happy to come back to study with you then.
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Fine content, misses marks
The app has decent mnemonics to help you quickly associate meanings with characters. I would provide 5 stars if the app allowed you to create practice lists, flag characters for further review, or edit your own version of the story. Likewise, many of the stories are weak in terms of providing actual help memorizing the characters. They seem to be poorly constructed and not thought through. It’s a fine app, but for the money, I’m looking for more.
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Awesome content, small problems
I absolutely love this app and recommend it to anyone looking to learn Chinese characters. It has mnemonics for not only the meaning, but the pronunciation and tone. Good quality audio for the characters. There’re also lots of example sentences and vocabulary words with audio. However, it needs some polishing to get 5 stars. The audio for example sentences is occasionally mismatched or transcribed incorrectly. There’s also no way to access the main menu without pushing the back button a million times. It would also be nice if you could turn on a reminder to review past characters. The review is often problematic though because some characters have multiple readings, so you can select a falsely “wrong” answer. That said, these are pretty minor flaws given how great the rest of the app is. I remember the characters I learn using this with almost zero repetition necessary!!!!
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Needs work
Good start but leaves a lot of room for improvement. Some of the stories are hard to relate to. They feel contrived. For me if the stories related back to Chinese culture it may be better.
Good but big issue for me
So far I’m enjoying the structure and layout of the app but no audio is playing for me at all, even after I fiddle around with my settings a bunch.
Traditional Chinese pls
I would love to buy this if it had a traditional Chinese option
Traditional Characters?
I have been waiting to buy a subscription, but am still looking for the update adding a traditional character option. Still plans for that?
Finally, an app I can learn from
I'm traveling to China a lot and I know that I need to learn the language. But I need something I can have with me so I can continue to learn on a regular basis. This app has taught me symbols already that saved me in a pinch. I'm excited to learn more.
Helpful tool for improving study of Mandarin characters
Have seen a noticeable improvement in my study of Chinese characters during initial usage of Zizzle. The visual stories really do work in learning the characters, meaning and tone!
