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Free iOS App for iPad to learn Chinese! Just tried it out and looks awesome! If you are learning Chinese, you must try this one out.
New app promotion and it will be free until 15 Nov 2011.
Features:
*** Learning Chinese Characters: display a Chinese character, and its Pinyin, the number of strokes, radical, English explanation, commonly used phrases and their pronunciation. So far, the system supports learning and writing exercises of the most commonly used 1155 Chinese characters.
*** Learning to Write Chinese Characters: dynamically illustrate on how to write a Chinese character in the correct stroke order.
*** Writing Practice: users can practice on writing a character. The writing track will be beautified and displayed via the unique digital ink technology.
*** Writing Assessment: evaluate the user’s writing quantitatively by giving a score.
Learning Phrases: learning commonly used Chinese phrases/words of each character. The corresponding English explanation and pronunciation is provided at the same time. The new phrases can be collected for further reviewing. This app includes more than 15,000 frequently used Chinese phrase/words.
*** Testing through Games: provide two games, finding the correct Chinese given Pinyin and finding the correct Chinese given English. These interesting games can test on the mastery of characters that users have learnt.
*** Searching Characters: search the Chinese character that the user wants to learn.
Setting App: set the background, skin, and wallpaper of the app; color of the pen; style and weight of the stroke, and select the textbook and course to learn.
Would've preferred Traditional, but even more it didn't crash out on me on iOS 5 with iPad (1).