Chineasy Cards Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 98 reviews. Read all reviews for Chineasy Cards for iPhone.
Chineasy Cards is free iOS app published by Chineasy Ltd
Brilliant for what it does
Arquerogenial
Hello! This app is extremely useful for providing logical and memorable associations/explanations for the actual shapes of the pictographs so they stick in your head. The design of the individual lessons is also very well done, using up-to-date teaching strategies to optimize learning. The lesson landscape and the artwork are highly effective. Where the app falls short in my opinion is when the student is reviewing and working on the overall synthesis of the language. Although there is an entire thumbnail glossary of terms learned to date, I find it clumsy trying to go back and do an effective review. In other words, it’s hard to build on what’s there within the app, once you get through the lessons. I did the free version and then subscribed for over a year, going back occasionally to review once I got through the 220 lessons available at the time. Now it seems I am required to provide a name and email or they won’t let me use my subscription any more. I’m not happy about that, there should be an option for anonymous users. Right now I am using DuoLingo which does a great job of teaching actual grammar and testing the student including for pronunciation. I still think Chineasy is brilliant for what it does do well. Even though I rarely use it now, the app is still helping me since I love understanding how the pictographs are structured and being able to recognize elements and images contained within them. I’m interested to see the new lessons but the new email requirement sticks in my craw. Please advise.
Mediocre (let the nice design not fool you)
ACTG
I do not quite understand the hype here. Have people actually worked with this app before reviewing it? Designs are nice but that’s about it. Could be so much better: select between traditional and simplified (at present there is a crude mixture); repeat translations on each card; have a more powerful flashcard system with more choices (why would the characters that I do not remember become my „favorites“?); sound support is bizarre and made native speaker laugh („ren“ sound like „jen“); cards and personalized settings are not saved anywhere (you loose everything if you have to reinstall app); after a few lessons you are forced to subscribe ($19.99/year!); finally, get a reliable and helpful customer support and solve your customers‘ problems when app is not working at all (I have been waiting for an answer _for a week_ now) etc. In short, I recommend Pleco + Hello Chinese as alternatives which can do much more and are also better managed.
best imagery
Ursa's Major
great images and techniques to link the sound, kanji, word, and learning all together. A++
Easy to learn
Meimei Nirvana
I am an immigrant Chinese and studied for 4 years at university at basic Chinese, this help me far better than many of my classes. It leaves me feeling more confident at learning the language again. Highly recommend it!
Newbies have no fear
JoeBillClarke
The best introduction to mandarin out there. Not to mention there’s a podcast and board game to go with it! I’m learning with my wife and two year old right now. Already using Chinese in the house after a couple of months! Xiexie Shao Lan!
The best way to help with Chinese vocabulary!
brittkv16
I love this app, I tell all my colleagues about it! I’m living in China at the moment and it’s helped me so much. I learn about the history of the characters and the symbolic meaning of this special language. One suggestion though - it would extremely helpful if the pinyin were on the “front” of the flash card with the English word and picture. Some of the time, I see a character and I know the English word but not the Chinese so I’m not about to speak it in Chinese. I can see the picture and character in my mind, but I just can’t remember the pinyin! Thank you!
Early days, but I’m enjoying it!
MagicGemC
I’m only on level four so far, but this app is really fun, cute, and informative. I love the incorporation of clever art work to help you remember it and the fun facts about how the characters developed are interesting. I laugh whenever Bao eats his bun at the end of a session. I’ve studied Japanese for 5 years, so I know the meanings most of the time at this level, but I got this to learn pronunciation and the images are helping me to not jump to Japanese pronunciation and start learning the Chinese version. Very nicely done and great artwork! Thank you.
It was great... until it wasn’t free
donny727
I was really enjoying this app... and then you get to level 9 and it asks you to subscribe? That was a huge disappointment for me. I’ve deleted it now, since then. This app would be beyond amazing if it was free. That’s when you’d be truly helping everyone.
Love this app!! Highly recommend.
Georgie Etta
So FUN easy, colorful, and a logical progression of learning in such a fun enjoyable format for all ages. I use lots of different apps including other language apps, and this is the first review I've ever written. Chineasy makes it so fun and easy to learn. The fun colorful pictographs make it so easy to remember characters. I love this app and hope they develop a Chinese character writing app too that incorporates the pictographs. Gamification of language learning like this keeps me on track by making it fun to practice everyday. I can just play throughout the day and advance to the next step without it feeling like practice. I look forward to opening the app everyday to see the pictographs and improve my skills while learning and having fun! HIGHLY recommend ❤️?