Mandarin Chinese Learning Apps

From the activity of “story chain” we have this week, I learnt that many children got brilliant gadgets for Christmas so I thought to make the most of it (Maximise the screen time!!!), I should recommend a few FREE apps to you.

These series of audio books are called Kung-Fu Chinese, they are popular children stories (i.e. Noah’s ark etc). The pain I found is each app is one story only.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qll.sb020&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5xbGwuc2IwMjAiXQ..

Children’s Chinese reader.  This app has 39 short lessons with phrases and games.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.A5qchannel.ch00

Mandarin Madness (learn lots of words and phrases via gaming)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nativetongue.mandarin_madness.pro&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uYXRpdmV0b25ndWUubWFuZGFyaW5fbWFkbmVzcy5wcm8iXQ..

Discovering Chinese - Mandarin for Beginners

By Better Chinese

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discovering-chinese-ipad-edition/id522265479?ls=1&mt=8

Google translate

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en

You can download Google pinyin IME or similar if you haven’t got the Chinese input methods on your gadget already.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.pinyin&hl=en

http://www.memrise.com/home/

There’re 4 courses you can take online and found it quite good myself. The apps are not available yet I am afraid.