Chinese Flashcards II

Nice app! The audio does not seem to work for me though so wonder if I am missing something or if it is just buggy. I've tried changing the settings in the menu.

I like this app a lot. It is definitely worth the price. I don't like the ugly character fonts. They aren't as true to the style you might encounter in printed materials, which causes me some confusion even on words I actually know. As an area for enhancement, I would suggest an extra button that uses the word in a sentence to improve comprehension.

I really have liked using this app as a study aid. One thing that I would like to see is being able to just study radicals, I find a great way to learn is to study the 200 or so of them that make up the other characters.<br/><br/>Would be even better if each character had a list of the radicals that it's made of.<br/><br/>Keep up the good work!

This app. is my fave for 3 reasons.<br/>1) audio. Hearing it spoken in Chinese really improves my diction. I am out of school and back from Asia several years with little chance to hear Chinese.<br/>2). Recording. Being able to record and playback myself right away is fantastic. (toggling between listening and repeating is like having a tutor). I am shocked how western I sound and I really have to try hard to tighten up my pronunciation.<br/>3). The quiz function.<br/><br/>Update-- another reason is being able to toggle between simplified and trad. I studied trad and this makes learning simp. so much easier with that traditional &quot;hint&quot; at the tap of a button.<br/><br/>There are 3 other apps I like (KTdict + CE, Hanzi, and Learn Chinese.). <br/>But I use this the most. while Ktdict has great functionality for building specific word lists (class lessons) it takes a lot of time to build those lists first. <br/>This app is just a quick way to review Chinese characters when you have time. (I have the second set and I study both simplified and trad).

I've been trying to learn the characters and this is the best application that I've had for Pinyin. It's excellent when you're trying to learn the tones. It's good for the Characters two, but one thing at a time. Flash 1 is very good for learning the characters, since you aren't distracted by the audio. Both are a great help for a beginner, and probably later too.

Please add a thing that lets you make a playlist of characters. I am a student studying chinese and hand making flash cards takes very long. I would really like to use this as a study tool and if i could choose the characters in a session it would avenge the 5 dollars i spent on this app. Please please make that in an update. I was kind of disapointed.

I like the green icon. It looks nice with the red. This program is perfect because it incorporates EVERY element needed to learn the language: pinyin, audio speech, english translation, and both simplified and traditional characters all displayed at once, without cross-referencing or additional searching. Most other programs leave out at least one of those elements or force you to go back to an index to look up something as you are trying to study. I suppose writing is another thing to learn, but that's better done separately. The other important feature is this application teaches actual words, generally two or more characters which are much like compound words in english. Learning roots is also important, but you can't reliably put them together on your own since the literal meaning often won't translate properly. Also, the practice and quiz formats are just right - there's no annoying structure to learn, so you can jump right into it and pick up again where you left off. It's perfect. I would like this for other languages, perhaps Cantonese or Korean... a Level III program for mandarin might be nice for studying phrases... give it a blue icon... (Suggestion: it would be a novel feature to optionally show traditional characters written over the simplified. I don't like choosing just one form to study, and tapping back and forth to change them is tiresome, so seeing both at once would be kind of neat.)

This entire-word flashcard app is an excellent improvement to their original, single-character app, which is still nevertheless useful.<br/><br/>The only two points of improvement I'd suggest would be to include an example sentence, and to use more cautious definitions of some of the words. For example, 内容 is defined as &quot;content,&quot; whereas &quot;contents&quot; would be clearer, in distinguishing it from the adjective.<br/><br/>The pronouncing part is good, although I personally never use it, since Pinyin is so straight-forward.