Sunday, January 13, 2013

Chinese Learning with Roxy the Star

Chinese Learning free application for children or preschooler. 

Support : iPad requires IOS 4.3 or later 




Application design for children with colorful animations and cute elements  help Chinese learning so memorable.Chinese Learning  has 2 modes, Learn and Play 

1.Learn mode

  • 8 Learning sections : Group of vocabulary for basic learning such as Color, Number ,Fruit and Body. Each Chinese vocabulary show picture ,meaning in English , Chinese Simplified word , pinyin and voice of pronunciation of the word.  









2.Play mode
  • 8 Interactive Games: Play with vocabularies that children have learned from learning mode , Play and learn from matching vocabularies and picture shadow.This can practice memory and listening skill of children .


Saturday, January 12, 2013

uLearn to Write Chinese

Learn how to write Chinese with uLearn to Write Chinese

Support : iPad with IOS 3.2 or later

This application will you more understand how to write Chinese Simplified handwriting characters .
Chinese writing has rules in writing and this application will show you step by step comply with the writing rule.


First it will show you direction and sequence of each line for  each word and then you can write following its step by step , if you did it out of the writing rule , your will get low grade.

You can learn with the word you are writing , This application provide the meaning and pronunciation of the word .More over this application show you many sample phrases of how to use that word you are writing also.

You can  set stroke color , stroke width and writing speed as you want to convenience your learning .


Second ,This application provide matching game learning ,

  • Matching Chinese and Pinyin
  • Matching Chinese and English
  • Character puzzle 




WordPower Simplified Chinese Vocabulary Free

WordPower Simplified Chinese Vocabulary Free Application for Chinese Learning 

Support : iPad requires IOS 4.3 or later.
In free version , Provide 100 vocabularies most frequently used in daily life.  


In 100 words most frequently used are also separate into 10 categories 
Each word will show both simplified Chinese handwriting (Hanzi) and  Pinyin with the pronunciation voice from native speaker. 

Application will show translation and meaning of each word. And sample phrase to show how to use each word in proper way.You can record your pronunciation voice and compare to the native speaker's.



You can personalize word bank to save difficult or useful words  to review at any time you want .
  

You can set font size and how audio play.You can choose word view or picture view for customizing as you want.

Chinese Wordpower vocabulary full version  will give you 2000 and more words and phrases  in many categories. 

Friday, January 4, 2013

Baby School - Chinese + English Free for iPad


Support : iPad requires iOS 4 or later.




Free Flash card Chinese -English Application for Children are 4 parts included Learning English cards ,Chinese cards,Animal Sound and Baby Piano.
- English card : A-Z  with 52 sample image with English voice
- Baby Piano :14 Keys and Real sound Piano with 8 Animals Sound
- Food , Fruit and Drink :39 flash cards with English and Chinese mandarin voice (included Pinyin)
- Animals :46 flash cards with English and Chinese mandarin voice (included Pinyin)







For Universal version that allow you to access 5 groups of vocabularies with English and Chinese mandarin voice
- Numbering with 18 cards
- Color with 13 Cards
- Shape with sample image 13 cards
- Life and transportation with 30 cards
- Baby Drum with 8 sound of full set drum






Pinyin Chart HD




Support : iPad requires IOS 5.0 or later

Free Pinyin Chart application for Chinese Learning beginner.Help you to learn and listen all  Chinese pronunciations with the interactive chart. There are all possible combination of sounds and tones in Chinese language.


You can choose the combinations of final and initials then listen the tone that  you want. This application is clearly demonstrate the different tones in Chinese.

This free edition is supported with ads . If you want to remove ads, you have to upgrade to Pro version.

Monday, December 24, 2012

KTDict C-E Dictionary Application for iPad

KTDict C-E is fre Chinese -English Dictionary Application for iPad

Support :iPhone, iPod, and iPad with IOS 4.3 or later

Dictionary Chinese -English  has over 70,000 vocabularies.All vocabularies are installed and keep in your iPad that can help you to find the word when get offline internet connection.

You can search by  English , Traditional Chinese  ,  Pinyin   (You have to add Chinese Keyboard in your iPad , see how to add Chinese keyboard)





When you found word and meaning that you want , you can select and copy that word .


There also keep history of your searching in previous used .




If you add Chinese Keyboard to your iPad , you can write Chinese character into keyboard space for your searching .See how to add Chinese keyboard here!



How to add Chinese Keyboard on iPad


IPad can help whom is learning Chinese language , IPad convenient for your read and listening on anywhere you go. You can learning both online and offline up to application you choose.

Some Chinese learning applications allow you put traditional Chinese character or pinyin into application via keyboard.

For offline or without internet connection , you can leaning Chinese writing from IPad Keyboard.
but first you need to add Chinese keyboard to your IPad, Let see how to add Chinese Keyboard

  1. Go to Setting-->Select General (on left panel)
  2. Select Keyboard (on right panel)



    3. Inside  Keyboard menu , select Keyboard again  and choose Add new keyboard



4.Select New keyboard that you want to use 
  • Chinese -Simplified (Handwriting )
  • Chinese -Simplified (Pinyin)