Chinese Pinyin Game

Real life Chinese teacher told me that the most important thing to learn first is Pinyin. So every day in addition to my other Mandarin Chinese studies I spend 15 or or more minutes using this app. I especially like the way in the quiz where you compare two different words it lets you hear how both words are supposed to sound after you make your choice between the two. I would gladly and ungratefully pay for a virgin that is ad-free. I was very pleased to discover that the developer had made an update to this app one week before I wrote this review.

I really love using this app. The only problem is that after a while it won’t load and I have to delete it then download it again.

I'm not sure how this app showed up on my phone - I think my kids downloaded it for me. But from the moment I started playing with it I was hooked. It allows me to improve my listening skills as well as speaking as I repeat after the recording to solidify the correct way to pronounce words. It also immediately showed me that I've been pronouncing the "ing" sound incorrectly and this many common words have been subtly off which causes confusion when I try to have a conversation. My only wish is that there were not words and maybe even some everyday sentences you could learn. I'd be willing to pay for this upgraded version!