Category: Apps
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“Relationship Calculator” – An App To Help Keep Those Familial Terms Straight
One of the biggest challenges many learners face is in trying to learn the different ways of addressing family members. I remember what pretty much amounted a general look of confusion around the classroom as we went over the multitude of combinations. Of course, we were told “well, just parents, siblings and close relatives matters” to which…
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Chinese Learning Apps for Android Roundup
This post is a follow-up to the New Chinese Learning App Roundup post, but this time we’ll be focusing on apps for Android! While messing around on my Android phone, I went through and grabbed what seemed like the most useful apps from the Google Play store for Chinese study. Check out the list of…
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Ninchanese – a new comer to the online Chinese language learning arena
I had been following the progress of Ninchanese for a little while. I joined the beta program a while ago, and it was a few months ago that I received news that the beta was ready. I’ve gone in and played around a bit, and thought it might be worth taking a look at and…
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SwiftKey for Android Now Supports Chinese!
Every so often I switch the default keyboard just to check out the third party ones. I don’t use them often, but I was happy to see that SwiftKey (one of the first third party keyboards I downloaded) finally supports Chinese input. And, perhaps just in time for Chinese New Year, they’ve also introduced a…
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[App Review] Mandarin Companion Graded Readers – A Complete Immersion Environment
Personally, I’m a huge fan of graded readers: not only do I use them in my own Japanese language studies, but they also play a large role in my graduate school research. However, I find that for Chinese learning, there’s far fewer selection of graded readers to come by. Recently, Mandarin Companion has started releasing Graded Readers to…
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「萌典」Free ChineseChinese Dictionary (iOS/Android)
Since I first wrote this post there have been two updates to the app I’ve updated the post accordingly. (3/6/2013) By chance I came across a new dictionary app for iOS and Android devices called 「萌典」(you can also find it by the English name “MoeDict”). It’s sourced from the Revised Chinese Dictionary put out by…
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Skrittering Away in Japanese
Quite happy to say that the next installment of Skritter‘s iOS presence is here! The Japanese app is finally available in the app store. You can read more in their official announcement post. Now let’s take a look and see if the Japanese app stacks up to the Chinese app. After seeing the above welcome…
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[Review] Chinese Reader for Mac OSX (Beta 0.3.1)
I came across Chinese Reader for Mac OSX over at the forums on Skritter. This is a very promising application, and while it is only in beta, it still feels quite polished and enjoyable to use. I love the connectivity with Skritter, where you can directly add vocabulary as well as import known vocabulary. Great way…
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Skritter for iOS is here!!
You guys may or may not have any clue about how exciting this is for me, but in the past I have shown my love for Skritter. Now, the iOS version is finally available and I’m super excited to share this with everyone. The thing is, it’s surprisingly fun and simple to use. It’s actually…
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Skritter: My Favorite Chinese Study Buddy
As my free trial runs low, I thought I would introduce Skritter as my new favorite SRS study tool for Chinese! Skritter is a subscription-based SRS service that can be used to study both Japanese and Chinese. It focuses on handwriting input (so having a tablet would be a good idea, though using a mouse…
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