Learn Hanzi with Panda vs Gam

Learn Hanzi with Panda is a bilingual Chinese-character adventure for children and families. Each day brings three connected activities: meet a new character, revisit one that needs practice, and use a familiar character in a new setting. Children trace strokes, listen and choose, repair a story, and build character parts. Learned characters stay on a personal island as rivers, trees, and new discoveries. The first release includes 20 foundational characters and an offline learning path. Children can revisit unlocked bilingual stories, while parents can review progress, manage learning settings, and control the account from the parent area. There is no open chat for children and no free-text prompting. Dynamic content uses approved themes and fixed learning rules. When network or content services are unavailable, the app returns to reviewed offline learning content. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Gam is a small, friendly way to start speaking Teochew (Chaozhou / Chaoshan, 潮汕话) — the language of eastern Guangdong and of Teochew families all over Southeast Asia and the world. Follow Gam, a little New Year mandarin, through the words and phrases you would really use at the family table: • 171 everyday words — people, food, actions, numbers, time, places • 216 phrases — greetings, thanks, “have you eaten?”, and more • Every word taken apart: initial, final and tone, with a plain-English note on how each one sounds • Peng’im, the standard romanisation for Teochew, next to every character • Eight tones, drawn as pitch curves, and how they change when words run together (tone sandhi) • Short drills — pick the meaning, pick the word — that come back to what you missed • Streaks, mastery dots and a progress page, so you can see yourself improving The standard here is the Chaozhou prefecture-city accent. Free, with no ads. Your progress stays on your device (and in your own iCloud, if you turn that on). No account, and it works offline.