Speak Chinese! app for iPhone and iPad
4.7 (
9187 ratings )
Business
Education
Developer: Benjamin Holfeld
0.99 USD
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 11 Feb 2010
App size: 7.5 Mb
Pros and cons of Speak Chinese! app for iPhone and iPad
Speak Chinese! app good for
Its wonderful to learn with this app.
I have made a jump in my Chinese
I think not only I can comfortably go to any china town in the world or for that reason to china itself with this app, I can also impress someone along the way. Its a good pick up line for singles. Sure this app will not only help you learn Chinese easily, but can get you stuff you are looking for in china or the Chinese speaking communities. I can practice this with my 7 year old.
No audio/sound in iPhone 5. What a rip off. Recommend everyone avoid the app, and perhaps all of this. Vendors apps. Too bad, the Japanese app made this purchase look promising.
If I could submit a zero star rating I would. Hope a 5 star rating will be up front and centre so you can avoid this mistake before you gift this vendor any more money.
I use this app when approaching visitors to our little town! They always respond positively! Great conversation starter!
I work with several oriental gentleman this should be good to see if its mandarin or Cantonese.
I downloaded expecting low. Great app, a lot of simple necessary phrases. You should include characters though.
Some bad moments
not much for the money. Why are some topics only written in phonetic spelling? to really speak mandarin chinese you have to know the meaning of words...I expected more!
Its not enough to communicate with Chinese. Youll certainly lost your way in China even if you got all these words. Good luck!!
It doesnt even let u do anything all u do is tap on a word and it says it u do nothing!
The person sounds fluent in Chinese, but I dont think shes a native speaker. I dont think a native person would mispronounce the word "want." (Shang instead of xiang) I am not talking about accent or tones; its simply mispronounced. You can even drop the mispronounced word, and the sentence is actually better. There are also word usage issues. "Happy birthday" is also pronounced incorrectly. Please correct on the next version.
I know a little bit of mandarin already, so I decided that this app might help a bit. However, there are no voice pronunciations, nor does the app show you visually how to pronounce them, which probably will result in an extremely thick American accent. For example, thank you spelled in the alphabet (and shown in the app) would be Xie Xie. Newcomers would pronounce it as SEE-SEE, but its more like Shh-yia Shh-yia (I might not be perfect on the real pronunciation though due to my instructor having a Changsha dialect).