Literate Chinese: Reading

This app had 0 bugs, 0 problems, and over the past few weeks it has helped me learn so much more than any other platform. It does a really good job at making the learning process simple and comprehensive. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn Mandarin.

Overall the app is the perfect way to memorize and learn the characters. One thing I would recommend for the user experience. Is to add an option to put a star/favorite a word that I would like to constantly repeat over and over and have a study session with those selected.

I speak very well for last 45 years but forgot my characters after leaving Asia in 1980’s. This was easy and persistent to drill me. It’s nice to have multiple pinyin types but I wish it also had Yale pinyin only because it’s what I learned in the 70’s. Yale pinyin also happens to be the closest approximation for American English to properly vocalize the correct sound in good Mandarin. Think.. “Xi”. Americans don’t know how to pronounce this correctly. Americans think Xerox do pronounce Xi as ‘Zeee’, or something else that’s different. Xi should be pronounce as “Sheee”. No romanization does a great job of getting a learner close to saying it correctly. So, it’s good to have the proper sound with the flash card.