Comments for Pinyin Practice

Comment on 3 Greate Ways to Create Flashcards by mynamehere

mynamehere — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:23:14 +0000

Quizlet. look for Mandarin or Chinese under language

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by JL

JL — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:25:39 +0000

Pleco is amazing!! It’s free (I think). You can type in English word and find the word in Chinese. You can type in pinyin or the actual word (using the Chinese keyboard) and find the English meaning. If you see a Chinese word you don’t know you can use the Chinese keyboard to write in the character without knowing anything about it and find the English meaning. I love using Pleco!!

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:54:19 +0000

Check out HanziTrainer, a free app for Android phones, that drills on the pinyin pronounciation of the 500 most frequent Hanzi characters. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blueringmobile.hanzitrainer

Comment on 3 Greate Ways to Create Flashcards by Judith Meyer

Judith Meyer — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:10:39 +0000

Anki (www.ankisrs.net) is an open-source program available for all platforms including phones and it’s the most useful flashcard app I know. Plus there are already ready-made decks for HSK vocabulary and beyond, a deck with 20,000 Chinese sentences and so on.

My post about Anki: http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2010/09/22/addicted-to-learning-vocabulary/

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by Learn Chinese blog

Learn Chinese blog — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:00:42 +0000

yeah, I know many friends use Pleco, they all like it based on what I’ve heard.

Comment on Practice Pronunciation and Writing with VoiceThread by Diane

Diane — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:31:46 +0000

This is definitely the kind of help (I think) I need. I want to be able to hear a Chinese speaker say initials and radicals and repeat and record my attempts immediately afterwards. I need to hear the difference between what I do and the way it is supposed to sound – then the descriptions of how to organise the mouth will help. I also need to work on tones for characters and words. Does this web site do that?

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by skillphiliac

skillphiliac — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:15:16 +0000

Pleco is superior in every imaginable way. It just is hands down the best software imaginable for learning Chinese, or using it for that matter. Also available for Windows Mobile.

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by Mawen

Mawen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:59:28 +0000

You really need to check out Pleco.

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by Peter

Peter — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:51:29 +0000

I use Qingwen (€3.99). You can write the character on the screen or type pinyin. It saves so much time not having to look up a character in a dictionary. Also gives the right pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese.

Comment on iPhone Apps for Chinese by bkasten

bkasten — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:54:58 +0000

iCED is still pretty nice, but interface-wise it has gone downhill and become rather clunky the last few updates. In any case, having the full DeFrancis ABC on a handheld is simply incredible.