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Chinese Writer by trainchinese app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 7296 ratings )
Games Education Arcade Educational
Developer: Molatra
Free
Current version: 6.1.1, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 21 Apr 2011
App size: 194.63 Mb

Never thought you could learn to write Chinese? Chinese Writer is a fun way to master more than five thousand characters, and a great way to explore this beautiful written language.

— Its easy to play —

Characters fall from the top of the screen - you have to tap them and draw them correctly to score points. Just dont let them reach the bottom, or - kaboom! Let five of them drop and the game is finished! But the learning continues; you can review everything that you saw, complete with stroke order diagrams and testing at your own pace. Characters you made the most mistakes on are highlighted at the top of the list.

— Its more than a game —

• trainchinese Chinese Writer can test you on 5,600 Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, and features stroke-order diagrams, English explanations and high quality audio recordings for every possible pronunciation of each one.

• The app remembers which characters youve had trouble writing and prioritises them in future games, as well as highlighting them in the character pack browsing screen.

• Includes an animated introduction to the basic rules for writing Chinese characters.

— Its suitable for everyone —

• Characters are divided into packs by difficulty according to the official HSK standard. Hundreds are included in this free download.

• Create your own packs by searching for characters by Pinyin. You can even mix Pinyin, English and Chinese characters in one search to find as many results as possible, and one tap adds them all to your custom pack.

• Your kids can play. Your grandmother can too. Now everyone can enjoy the pleasure of learning this beautiful system of writing.

• Whatever your writing level, youll improve with trainchinese Chinese Writer. Beginners can start with simpler characters and at a slower pace, while experienced students will blaze their way through those HSK 4 hanzi!

— Its connected —

• Create your own character packs and share them with friends by email.

• Feeling proud of yourself? Share your high score with your friends via Twitter and Facebook.

• Already a trainchinese user? Download the characters youre learning into trainchinese Chinese Writer for free!

Learn to write Chinese characters with trainchinese Chinese Writer. Its educational, entertaining - and addictive!

Pros and cons of Chinese Writer by trainchinese app for iPhone and iPad

Chinese Writer by trainchinese app good for

This is a fun way to review characters and feels more like playing than studying! Gorgeous interface, no bugs, pretty graphics. Love it, like all the other trainchinese aps!
I simply love this app! Not only it teaches the order of writing characters, but also you have a time defying game! It really makes you use it and learn!! 我很喜欢这个app 它教我笔顺和这是一个快游戏!我很多学会和用了!
Really awesome app. Fun! But most importantly, educational! I think this is a very efficient and addictive way to learn Chinese for everyone from a little kid in kindergarden to a high school or university student studying Chinese to a mid-aged mom from Hong Kong using her spare time to brush up on her simplified characters! Thanks for making such a great app for me!!!
I like it a lot and bought whole card sets. It is one of the best.
I dont even know where to start. This app is SO helpful! Learning to write in Chinese is tough, especially when it comes to memorizing the correct order. Gamifying the process was a great idea! I recommend this app to every person beginning their journey with Chinese!
Not bad at all! but after the update,it stopped pronouncing characters,pls fix the bug

Some bad moments

I like to use this app for practice and remember lots of characters but two important points must get better with an update: 1) currently full packs are only possible to learn with traditional characters. When switching to simplified, many characters will not be trained. This is a pity, as in china mainland you will see only simplified chars and will never recognize when just possible to learn with this app the traditional chars... When selecting simplified I expect to see all chars in training, and not just a small subset... 2) this is not that important now, but other apps are providing that... the writer training provides just "typewriter" characters (hard strokes), the written character Fonts would be more nice. When I write the chars from this app, my Chinese teacher sometimes says, a real unusual handwriting I create, as everything is very hard and not smoothly written. So something to improve in this app esp. when I need to pay so much for it. Afterwards Im willing to give my full recommendation.
At first I thought this app wouldnt be terribly useful. It seemed kind of lame (What? Characters falling? Huh?) but then I tried the free version and was hooked.You get more points for writing faster. This is best for reviewing characters you already know and can read. It will help gain fluency in writing and using correct stroke order (and its fun). But you have to pay for each set of new characters and you cant customize it. When I can play this game with vocabulary from my Integrated Chinese textbook (or whatever else), Ill give it 5 stars!
Im loving this app! Everything about it is great! A suggestion: Traditional characters. Just simplified isnt what Im looking for.
Needs to add an option to learn traditional characters (instead if just simplified) Fun and great for learning stroke order. Also pronounces characters outputs in the practice mode, which is helpful.
Pros: Nice clean and fun app. Good way to help learn characters. Cons: Add-on$$$ for more characters, no option to add your own.
This app has quickly become my go-to app for when Im trying to learn new Chinese characters and their meanings. Sure you could look through a dictionary and find a couple new words that you didnt already know, but with this, youre barraged with new characters that you can either learn by playing the game, or by learning/practicing as you write them. Again, this app is amazing. Im in my fourth year of learning Chinese, and all of the expansion packs are a great help to expand my vocabulary.

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