Tag: app
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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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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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WaiChinese – A complete tone changer
I have to preface this by saying I am extremely impressed by WaiChinese. I have absolutely always wanted an app that was able to actually track your tones as you say them and it’s finally here! So please go and try it it out! Now onto the full review! It all comes down to tones…
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Tiny Death Star – Learn Chinese and Be a Geek, for Free
The opening for this post probably deserves some more epic music, something maybe like this? Anyway, leave that on in the background as we go into the latest offering by the people behind Tiny Tower–Star Wars: Tiny Death Star! The best part: it’s also in Chinese! Set the OS’s language to Chinese and the game will…