trainchinese for Android

我喜欢这个应用程序，因为它清楚地显示了笔画的顺序。 没有这样的应用程序！ 做得好！

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Excellent design. TC has helped me reach my first goal of memorizing the stroke order for 500 basic Chinese words. The inability, however, to change the tone colors is the only drawback. I.e. Before learning with this app, I had already matched the 2nd tone to yellow in my brain. Other than this issue, TC is one of the best apps available for learners of Chinese. Melanie Siben

If anyone is as desperate to learn Chinese as I am and you want to learn the words along with how to write the proper strokes, hear how the word is pronounced then look no further as this is definitely the app for you. I had downloaded so many apps but more than 5 lessons in and the they would start having long sentences that I obviously can’t read because it doesn’t teach you each of the characters and then has you doing exercises where you have to match the dialogue up but you can’t since it doesn’t teach you the actual words. This app is amazing as it tells you if the character is a verb, noun, adj etc... It has the pinyin with tone and how to pronounce it under the the respective character. If you’re not good with reading the tone mark the app has the option of having the characters along with the pinyin of the word in different colors depending on the tone for example (1st tone mā is in red, 2nd tone má is in orange, 3rd tone mǎ is in green, and 4th tone mà is in blue) (only vowels get a tone marking, a, e, i, o, u,...) so if you have a word that has an a with a neutral tone (ā) in the pinyin then（we’ll shān 山 as an example)then both the pinyin of the word shān and the character 山 will be in red. Then let’s say have a word with a rising tone a (á) in pinyin then the (well use Hān 寒 as an example) then both the pinyin of Hān and the character 寒 will be in orange, and so on. The other best part of the app is that when you add words to your training to learn, and once you think you know them well the app will put them into a sleep state so you won’t see them (unless you go back to review it) and they will be asleep for a few days and then they’ll come back into the training to see if you know the word. A very good thing that the app has is it has a clip of how to write how the character in the proper stroke order which is important. On the training it also has you write out the characters so you have a good grasp on the each of the characters. If on the training you don’t know what it is just click you don’t know and the word will stay in your training so you can continue working on it. Another great part about this app that I wish others had is that it has phrase decomposition meaning that the phrase is broken down into parts and explaining how the phrase was put together. A good example of this is 太好了（tài hǎo le) it breaks down and explains what tài 太 and if it’s adv, adj etc.... then explains the meaning of hǎo le 好了 and if it’s a adv, v, n etc... This part of the app is definitely the best, it makes memorizing words easier when you know how a word or phrase is put together. This is definitely one of the best apps to learn Chinese as it caters to those who are brand new in learning the language and has a section called “first steps” which has a helpful guide on the learning the main things. You can learn a lot in the app but there is a subscription you can pay (if you want) it’s to have more words added your list of what you want to learn.

I first used this app to study for HSK level 3. It’s the best way to learn words and characters. Now, more than halfway through studying for level 5, I spend half my time with textbooks and half my time on my Mobile using Trainchinese.