- Price$2.99
- CategoryEducation
- First releasedOctober 22, 2008
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerChineseLearnOnline.com
- Bundle IDcom.chineselearnonline.flashcards
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
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Report an issueThis app is for those who want to learn to read Chinese characters. Rather than getting you frustrated by the thousands of characters out there, this app starts off with the most common characters - one at a time - and then works its way to less common ones. The ones you know won't be shown again, while the ones you have trouble with will be shown to you again later. This way you can focus your learning on characters that you find difficult, while easily skipping through others that you find easy.
Features include:
- 2700 characters in simplified and traditional form - Pinyin script and English definition for each character - Characters grouped from most frequent to least - Spaced repetition algorithm to help with memorization
For a comprehensive course in learning Chinese - for beginners to intermediate students - visit our website below and subscribe to our free podcast.
Also try out Chinese Flashcards II which tests you in 1000 basic words with audio.
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 4 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2010 | — | — | 50 | $4.99 |
| August 24, 2011 | — | — | 68 | $4.99 |
| November 30, 2015 | 2.0 | — | 70 | $2.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 12Good at training for character recognition. Not as good for learning to write characters (characters displayed in unsuitable font for that purpose).
I'm an upper- intermediate Chinese student and this app is exactly what I was looking for to help my reading ability. It's a very basic flashcard app, but that's all it's supposed to be, so it's great. It's a great way to build your Chinese. Well worth the price, 5 stars! Wish list for Developer: -I wish I could see both simple and traditional characters at the same time, or easily switch back and forth. -I wish The characters were in a different font, or had an option to change the font. -the actual look and color scheme of the app is a little cheesy, use less bright colors or something. -I was really hesitant to buy this app at first, if you had a limited "lite" version, you'd probably have more sales.
Best chinese flashcards app that I have tried so far. Controls are simple and it works like it should. There aren't many options however, and there doesn't seem to be a way to make custom sets of flashcards. I do like the fact that it starts on the most common characters and progresses from there. Overall, very good at what it does.
it does a great job at what it advertises for: Chinese flash cards. For the price of a frappuccino, you got a very well done Chinese training program
The app itself is useful and nice. I'm a beginning learner and it helps to reinforce word memory. There are a few things I wish were added (some mentioned by a previous reviewer): - Minor request: Color scheme control. Toxic-green background, blindingly white menu button, and bright yellow cards. Ugh! - Major request: Ability to review/reinstate skipped and learned words. Currently, there is no way to review learned/skipped, and the only way to return them to the pile is to reset the entire set of flashcards. With those couple changes, this already useful app would be perfect!
I would give four-and-a-half stars if it were allowed! 1) Make it speak the word when the answer is shown. Have this as an option under "settings". 2) We need the ability to restore words, not just start over completely. 3) I really like the colors. Add more themes, however, in case others don't. If they did all of that, they could probably charge even more for the program. (But please don't - it's a very good value!)
They show the icon for sound and I have it turned on but there is no sound. One star!
I researched all the flashcard programs for learning Chinese before deciding on this one, and I'm happy with my purchase. The characters are clear, the definitions appear to be accurate and the program looks nice and it's easy to use. It isn't perfect yet, I think there are a few usability issues that could be addressed, but the core of the program is great and I look forward to working my way through all of the characters provided. One thing to note though, this program requires that you know at least a little Chinese. I think it's geared towards at least an intermediate speaker, who has a base understanding of characters. Buying this program won't help you speak Chinese, it'll help you read it.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.