trainchinese
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | trainchinese B.V. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
trainchinese will teach you Chinese, with a free and complete dictionary, thousands of vocab lists, example sentences, audio recordings, measure words, character animations and Optical Character Recognition — not to mention a powerful flash card training system that even includes handwriting training!
• Our dictionary prioritises commonly-used words and phrases above the obscure and obsolete, while example sentences and measure words (classifiers) provide crucial context to help you decide which Chinese word is the most appropriate translation. Other dictionaries just leave you guessing!
• We've got Optical Character Recognition (OCR) too. Spotted some Chinese you can't read? Capture a photo of some Chinese text from a menu, book or sign, and the app identifies and translates the characters for you.
• Search for words by part of speech - simply type the abbreviated type followed by a period (.). For example, "ma n." gets you "ma" words that are nouns.
• Mistyped a word? Helpful spelling suggestions get you to the right results fast.
• Words feature both example sentences and measure words for nouns. It's time to move beyond "个"! And best of all it's all connected: tap examples and measure words to open them as full dictionary entries.
• trainchinese is great for students: it includes more than a thousand vocabulary lists covering topics from International Relations to American Football Teams and more. Feel like something's missing? Users often get in touch to ask for lists on the topics they're studying, and we're happy to oblige! You'll also find lists containing HSK-level words (both old and new standards), plus TOCFL lists for students in Taiwan!
• Highlight words with your finger for super-fast access to character animations, related searches and more!
• Whether you're studying the Simplified (mainland China and Singapore) or Traditional (Hong Kong and Taiwan) variants, we've got you covered! Easily switch between them or choose to display both in dictionary results and on flash cards. Even better, you can use the phonetics you're comfortable with - choose from Pinyin with tone marks, Pinyin with tone numbers or even Zhuyin characters (from the BoPoMoFo system used in Taiwan).
• Create flash cards with audio and animation from dictionary entries. Organise them into lists, and share them with friends (or students).
• Our Spaced Repetition system ensures you'll memorize words for good.
• Train your way: each card is available in four different modes to test different aspects of Chinese study. See Chinese, Pinyin or English and get tested on translation, and even compare your handwriting to a stroke-order animation side-by-side, synchronized! Or if you prefer, there's multiple choice training too (for a real challenge, try it in "Dictation" mode!).
• Flash cards are saved on your device and synchronized with trainchinese.com, where you can also train with them and find more great content.
• Add study notes to your flash cards - they're saved and backed up at trainchinese.com.
Don't forget to check out our other apps (tap our company name in iTunes for more info):
- Chinese Writer
- Chinese Audio Trainer
- My Chinese Library (phrase books)
- Pinyin Trainer
- Number Trainer
Reviews
Look no further
BenEggy
Living in China now and I've been working through apps for 5 months. Some are good, some are terrible, but this is by far the best I've come across. From no fewer than 20 Chinese learning apps I've used I find this to be the most comprehensive, the most fluid, and best suited for a variety of learning styles. There are paid apps that are nowhere near this good.
Fantastic suite of Apps
.none..
LOVE this app - I make my own lists, and I use the website and the iphone app together. I never usually pay for apps, but this has been more than worth the price. I can enter characters using pinyin or hanzi (even handwritten).
I Never Write Reviews
Emuuh
This app is absolutely the greatest app out there for learning Chinese. I've been in China for two and a half years, and I've seen them all. Been using this app for three weeks now after buying a three month subscription, and I am absolutely overjoyed with my purchase. At first, I thought the price for subscriptions w high, and it was ridiculous that I had to purchase lists, but seriously, now, totally worth it. The devs always respond to my emails with criticisms, and they are constantly fixing the app if there are any issues. Some sentences don't have audio (about 10% maybe), but it's a mostly complete app with all the words you need. What I like most is its integration with other apps. I use the Chinese Writer and Audio Trainer. The Writer is a little meh, not so useful for my level (HSK 6), but the Audio Trainer is INCREDIBLE! So very, very useful. Also, everything synchs quite well across devices, which makes things very convenient. Only huge criticism I have is that on some devices (right now it's the iPhone, though I swear just a week ago it was the ipad) example sentences are missing. They show up on one device, but not on another. The devs said there was some bug that deletes one example sentence from certain devices. I find this annoying, since I have to go to Pleco to copy and paste example sentences into my TrainChinese notes, but other than this, I really have no criticisms of the app. Buy it, try it out. $50 for a year is far, far less than you would pay for Chinese course, and I swear, as someone who HAS taken a year of Chinese courses from the most prestigious school in China (Peiking University) and as a man with friends who have attended the Beijing Language Center University, I can without a doubt say that this app, and it's relatives, are far more effective for learning vocabulary, at least, than any of those schools. Your money will not be wasted!! 加油!!!
Bad Update
Angel DiMaria
Good app. But what happened to the similar characters function? Before updating, a character search would return two or three highly similar characters in the upper right corner. After updating its gone! I was really useful!
ADD Savior!
asdflover
This app is a perfect supplement for any person who finds a classroom setting monotonous. I use this app in conjunction with the assignments given by the educator and create custom lists. My son has ADD and this app along with the Writer really keeps his interest and has vastly improved his grade in the classroom! Thank you!
Flexible well-designed and responsive
El Che 789
This program is excellent and deserves a review. This is the first program I found which allows you to focus on the aspects on vocabulary areas you care about. Very good for people who can speak but can't read and write well. The stroke guide is a very good function and the flash card system allows you to track progress and automatically sets timing for reinforcement lessons. Best part is that if you pay, you can put your own vocab in on their websites, and they input them into your cards fairly quickly.
Great for learning strokes. Hideous dictionary
janshums
Simple words such as 劝告 quan4gao4 (counsel) and 良心 liang2xin1 (conscience) bring up results of tons of random sentences that do not include those words. If they were to make the dictionary better it could replace Pleco.
Great set of Apps
rando525
I've used most of the larger apps and this one (and its cousins) is the best dictionary. Great pre-organized lists! Saves me lots of time. Has really helped me get motivated too.
