Brilliant for what it does – Chineasy Cards Review

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.
Review by Arquerogenial on Chineasy Cards.