Comments on: The Best Chinese Language Learning Apps (2025)

By: lavoierapidepourparlerchinois

lavoierapidepourparlerchinois — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:32:27 +0000

Thanks for this post very interesting. I will maybe add speechling.com a good app for listening and speacking with the possibility of being corrected by chinese teacher.

By: Fax

Fax — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:20:30 +0000

I really like Hello Chinese, but I also use a new app I found on Play Store called Mandaread that a friend recommended. Its very straight-forward, but it helps me review the chinese characters I’ve been learning.

Love digmandarin! Thanks for all the useful information!

By: Mary Jay

Mary Jay — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:22:06 +0000

‘Hack Chinese’ is another great platform to learn Chinese words. It is aimed exclusively at learning characters, it allows you to learn new words effectively and revise the words you’ve already studied. It is built to be used every day and it allows users to track their progress by providing stats on the learning process.

By: Thanhh

Thanhh — Mon, 11 May 2020 02:38:58 +0000

Thanks to this article for bringing me to Digmandarin! Detail and helpful information
I think u spent a lot of time to use these apps in order to review all of them. I’m using Hanzii – english to mandarin chinese translator. Very good for beginners because of having pronunciation, examples attached, the English to Chinese translator is also appreciated by many people I can learn both 4 skills with this Chinese app
So glad to be here and introduce my favorite app

By: Dig Mandarin

Dig Mandarin — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:47:34 +0000

In reply to Elaine. Perhaps you can try quizlet, but you should create or import the vocabulary list from textbook by yourself.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:15:52 +0000

Thanks so much for the reviews, they’re really helpful.
But I’m finding that I download some apps and, while they offer some great features, they don’t have essentially what I’m looking for. Which of your ones above do you recommend for the following needs: I am learning from a textbook with a teacher. Basically I want an app that I can use to build my own vocab list as I go through the textbook, including flashcards of simplified characters with pinyin and definition. I already have a stroke order app, so now I’m looking for one that I can use just to test myself on the words and characters from each chapter of my textbook while I’m not at home with my book and computer.
Can you recommend one for that?
Thanks so much.

By: James

James — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:07:25 +0000

I have been really happy with Duolingo and it’s free!

By: C J

C J — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:27:48 +0000

Dong Chinese by Peter Olson. Not many of the apps mentioned here properly explains the actual origin of the word you’re looking at. Chinese is based on pictures (or combinations of pictures) and it makes it sooooo much easier when you know picture you’re supposed to be looking at, and how pictures combine together to give the meaning / pronunciation of the character. (e.g. hao3 = woman and child together = “good”). Give it a try!

By: Packrat1

Packrat1 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:30:47 +0000

I like Pleco because it has defined one time prices and lots of available features. They don’t “nickle and dime you to death” because you don’t pay Pleco monthly or annually like all the other apps and services out there. Pleco has specific prices for specfic features and then… that’s it. You only buy what you need. And you don’t keep paying to use it! Since I bought it, I can see why it’s highly recommended. The various features have been immeasurably useful and I know it’s a long term minimal investment. Some other apps that look useful, I have been putting off until I have more extended time to focus on them, one at a time, because they cost so much per month or year. Pleco was a bargain in comparison.

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:41:01 +0000

In reply to Darker 河马.

Dear Darker:
It’s been quite some time since I posted that thumbnail review of Pico. In fact, I had forgotten about it. Coming across your response was a unexpected delight. I gave up on any attempt at regular study of Chinese while moving between cities and jobs last summer. Where I’m at now, Guangzhou, a new set of friendly, native faces have said,”You should learn some Chinese.” I didn’t reply with “It’s just a hobby,” fearing that it might to taken as an insult to Chinese culture or – worse – a sign that this “foreign guest” of The People’s Republic was not in full support of the “Chinese dream.” (This also explains why I’ve returned here: these fine folks are – as always – right.)

I don’t care for ANY ideology, actually, unless there’s one called “Idiom-ism.” My brain is stuffed full of English ones. As you must know, Idioms make any and every language richer – but also much more difficult to learn. Only in computer languages (as far as I know) is the literal meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence the ONLY meaning. And I must wonder: once AI empowered robots have provided the “adult supervision” that our infantile species so desperately needs, will they then “cleanse” human language of all its troublesome idioms? Personally, I’m not worried. For, by then, I’ll be either dead (perhaps having chocked to death on a particularly nasty complex sentence) or waiting for the same in the “”Home for the Linguistically Limited & Terminally Confused.” May your own end be much more glorious.
Cheers.