LearnChinese

Learn Chinese App is based on first 2500 most used chinese words (HSK 5) and 2000+ sentences to practice your Chinese

4 main sections

Home

The first option of the tab bar shows 3 main informations:

The number of known or memorized words

The user has fully controll on this list, in order to be added in this list a word have to be marked as "I know it". Hiting "I don't know it" button, the word will be removed from the list.

The word of the day

Everyday is shown a new word that is chosen randomly from the entire words database.

The score evolution on the last 7 days

Library

There are two sections on this tab:

My libraries

Libraries created by the user

HSK libraries

Standard HSK libraries containing words as following:

• HSK 1 - 150 words
• HSK 2 - 150 words
• HSK 3 - 300 words
• HSK 4 - 600 words
• HSK 5 - 1300 words

For each library a label with three numbers (blue, red, green) shows the library's status as following:

• blue - the number of words that are unknown
• red - the number of words that are added to a personal library (ready for practice)
• green - the number of words that are marked by the user as "known" or "memorized"

Words collection

Each library (personal library or HSK) presents words in a collection that follows the colors code presented bellow The collection can be filtered () or sorted () by diferent criteria

Word's details

Each word from the above collection has the following details:

• the word in hanzi and pinyin format;
• the English translation;
• a speaker button that allows the user to hear the word's pronunciation (in chinese);
• "Add to libbrary" and "Remove from library" buttons allows the user to add/remove a word from library, as well as creating a new library;
• "I know it" and "I don't know it" buttons allows the user to mark a word as known/unknown

Practice

In this section the user can practice the words from libraries. Firstly the user have to select the libraries for practice (at least on) and hit the "Play" button.

There are 2 ways to practice:(if it's posible the app will try to prepare 10 tasks for practice session, 5 tasks of each type):

Translating a sentence from Chinese to English or vice versa

The use has a bunch of words to create the corect translation for the given sentence, the selection of a word is made through a simple tauch on that word, the withdrawing of a word is made also through a touch on that word. The position of the selected words can be changed through "drag & drop".

Translating a word from Chinese to English or vice versa

For each word the user has 4 options, only one of them being the corect answer.

Check the answer

When the user hit the "Check" button it can appear 2 situations:

The answer is corect

The answer is wrong, hence the user has 3 option:

• Retry
• Skip
• Corect answer

Scoring

• Corect answer: 100 points
• Wrong answer: -50 points
• Withdrawing of a word after it was selected: -10 points

Mistakes

The "life status" is marked by 4 stars, the user can make maximum 3 mistakes, after the fourth mistake the practice session will be ended.

Search

Words can be searched either in Chinese or in English, the app detecting the language that is typed in the search box.