HelloChinese - Learn Chinese

Name: HelloChinese - Learn Chinese
Rating: 4.8696 (11028 reviews)

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HelloChinese - Learn Chinese

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User Reviews for HelloChinese - Learn Chinese

Great App

Great app for learning Mandarin-Chinese. Some of the really great features is that you can download the lesson plans of the next course to study offline. Also, you will see clips of speakers and have to translate or interpret what they said, and sometimes their pronunciation is terrible and even my native speaker friends struggle to figure out what they’re saying, so it is good prep for real conversations. Also depending on whether you want to learn Simplified (Mainland) or Traditional (Taiwan), you can toggle the writing. The premium games are also pretty helpful in reinforcing practice. Also great that you can toggle between pinyin, characters, or pinyin+characters. However, I’d ask the developers to maybe consider letting users toggle between the 3 options on a per word basis. Pinyin is meant to be a crutch to help new learners, but it’s a bit tough to just instantly turn off completely for all 500+ words in the app. It would be helpful to be able to selectively convert one word at a time from pinyin+characters to just characters (i.e. memorise 我=wo, then going forward turn off seeing “wo/我” and just see ”我”). I think it would really help learners master the characters.

AppleNicknameSystemSucks, Aug 25, 2019

They put so much into this

I've tried tons of apps and this one has always been my favorite for Chinese. And just when I thought it couldn’t get better, they added even more extremely helpful features! Being able to use Chinese in a convincing, conversational way is my goal (it’s painfully obvious to native speakers when awkward or inappropriately formal speech is used). So things I love about Hello Chinese include: training basic vocabulary using simple sentences, clips of native speakers so you get a feel for how things should sound, short videos of helpful situations and common conversation topics, and now they’ve added podcast episodes after lessons! The 10 min podcast after the very first lesson (I’m starting over to relearn writing) explained that nihao and zaijian aren’t typically used and should be avoided!! I had a hunch that was true but it’s amazing to have a credible source explain it in detail and I’m so thankful that they really put in work for a resource that’s mostly free!

djun13l, Mar 18, 2022

Simply an amazing app

Been using this app for four months and I can easily say this is the best, most effective language learning app I’ve ever used — hands down. I’ve used a number of language apps not just for Chinese but also Korean and Japanese, and nothing compares to this. They guide you along a path of lessons with each lesson building on the last which allows you to better memorize vocabulary and grammar. They don’t just throw phrases at you without explaining grammar rules like Duolingo. The app takes seriously the explanation of grammar structures so that you can take these grammar structures and formulate your own sentences around them. Pronunciation is also taken seriously as each lesson and test will ask you to say sentences and vocabulary out loud. One section of each lesson is solely dedicated to pronunciation. When I flew to California for a visit after 3 months of study, I talked to some Chinese native speakers who explicitly noted that my pronunciation was surprisingly on point.

emtee22, Dec 30, 2017

Wonderful App

Actually feel like real people who really understand Chinese made this, in a way that they actually want others to learn. I was not considering purchasing a subscription plan on any Chinese app but this has enough free content that I can see the value of the subscription. Really excellent content at an approachable level of difficulty. This should be made more we’ll known, as Rosetta Stone can’t hold a candle to this and DuoLingo, while good in some ways, is missing the language theory and grammar to the depth that hello Chinese has. The only thing I might want is the eventual option to learn Traditional characters at my option. Wonderful, wonderful app. Update: I do see now the Traditional Chinese Option, that is good! But now when I am asked to learn how to write a character the pictorial explanations that used to come up no longer appear. And when they did appear, it was only once. It was helpful to know where the Chinese characters came from originally, to see where the language came from. Again a wonderful app, I study every day.

Found, Nov 09, 2020

Exceptional - Needs Improvement

I have been using this app to supplement my private lessons with 中文。I love the easy-to-use, cute interface. The APP itself has a host of benefits: they provide native 中国人 speakers to present lots of the dialogue; roleplay/voice dubbing practice; 汉字 stroke order tracing (with and without a guide!); lots of listening and speaking assignments with and without visual clues; etc! All of the language presented and tested are relevant and necessary words for learning Chinese, and they do a great job explaining the rules and history behind the words/words’ meaning. However, there are some continual bugs that make it hard to progress through the lessons. Often times, when there’s a question with visual answers, the visuals are blank... or there’s no sound when you click the audio button on an audio question. I’ve reported these questions many times, but nothing has changed. I am hopeful, though, that the developers will get around to it — they are diligent and do a great job with updates and new content!

glassofwonder, Apr 16, 2019

The Best App I’ve Tried

This was the first app I used to learn Mandarin, and I’ve since tried Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, and a few others. This is by far the most intuitive way to learn the basics of the language that I have found. There are certainly areas that could use improvement; I wish we could learn to write all of the characters in the lessons instead of just some (the writing system itself is excellent though). I also wish it included more lessons in speaking and pronunciation, with suggestions on how to fix pronunciation when you’re incorrect. (Side note: sometimes when I’m speaking, it says I’m repeatedly pronouncing a word incorrectly, but when I long press to practice that individual word I get 5.0 stars. When it goes back, it still says I’m wrong. Not sure if this a glitch.) That being said, I love being able to see both the hanyu and the characters, then being able see just the characters (some apps make it impossible to learn the characters, and others throw you right into the deep end. I highly recommend this app to any beginners interested in learning Chinese.

Glasspathways, Jun 20, 2018

Great App and Useful

I used this app before I went to live in China and now am revisiting my Chinese before moving to Taiwan. It is genuinely a really helpful and useful app. The native speaker videos are helpful, the various lessons build well on each other, and, even with the changes, I love that I can still revisit the old program for learning as well. As to learning Chinese, it was a great foundational tool before I moved to China. It will not teach you everything of course but gives a great basis to get started (and enough to use for basic needs). I appreciate that you can also switch to traditional characters as well. In addition, the teacher context explanations are informative and interesting (and another way to hear more Chinese speakers). The stories are good too. The only thing I wish was that they had transferred the games to the new version too. Yes, I can go back and use the old ones, but I would have loved to see these updated with the newer program. I am not a huge review writer, but, for Chinese learning, I suggest this app over others (especially if you are planning to do a subscription).

Kbs1027, Feb 04, 2023

Edited 2021 - false advertisement, no games in new version

HelloChinese is a fun, easy to follow program. You're given a variety of options to adjust the level of difficulty, as well as many supplemental learning tools such as flash cards, games, videos. It covers all the aspects of the Chinese language, including but not limited to proper pronunciation, reading both pinyin and traditional characters, as well as writing/typing pinyin and traditional characters. There is an achievement point system that allows you to access more content, and there is something satisfying about working my way down the curriculum path. I'd recommend this app to anyone wanting to learn to read, speak and write in Chinese. ETA (2021): I’ve returned to HelloChinese after a long hiatus and was glad to see there was a new, more comprehensive course available. However, they have done away with the games section for the new course and according to support there are no plans to reintroduce it. This is false advertisement considering that the Premium subscription claims that you have unlimited access to all training games. You can access the games still, but in order to play them you have to progress in the old course (which is redundant to and goes in a different order from the new course). That’s a huge limitation if you ask me, not to mention a huge inconvenience. The games were a big part of why I used to love this app, so my new rating and amended review is going to reflect that.

lotusindigo, Sep 27, 2021

The best language learning app by far

It pains me that Hello Chinese doesn’t reach more advanced levels or branch out into other languages. It’s teaching methods are good but it’s review system is the best in the industry by an extremely wide margin. You can easily look up terms, when you review you can see pinyin, block translation, and literal translation, it will mark words as difficult if you miss them a lot, but you can undo that if you want (e.g. the word is unimportant to you or you hit the wrong button). The spacing of the SRS is spot on, at least for me, and it tests you both Chinese to English and vice versa. It also gives XP for practice so you don’t feel the need to get out over your skis by learning new words when you haven’t mastered the old ones yet to protect a “streak” or anything like that. I’m pretty sure I’ve tried them all and HC is just miles ahead of everyone else. My only complaint is that this review system isn’t integrated into the premium plus “immerse” feature. That seems to have a lot of content but the review is low quality so I don’t see much value in it even though the lessons seem good.

mjw1926, Aug 03, 2021

Better By Design....A Must Do

Ok there is no babbel solution. Mondly is limited because because of its universal approach, and Rosetta Stone lacks the ability not to confuse even if it has the content. Hello Chinese has uniquely created a Puzzle of all the elements of simple Chinese in a way that those others do not. It uses in my estimation the most common sentence structures and focuses on key building blocks and hammers their usage to build the basic understanding of simple concepts. It is better because the approach has been so well thought out to find the basic stumbling blocks in the compact language and make them transparant. Because of this gradual but definite intellegent building block proces I equate this to the best of babbel without the chatbox. It does however have a simple Scritter like element that is a perfect add on. The only think missing is some Pimseleur like dialogues and a Mondly like AI driven handsfree learning for a total package. But considering its free use for extensive learning ( unlike Pimseleur, Rosetta Stone, or Mondly) it is a must do for all beginner to intermediate Chinese Students. Start here it will save you years of wasted effort.

Problems with subscribtion, Aug 06, 2023

Description

HelloChinese is the best Mandarin Chinese learning app for beginners! Featured on the App Store in New Apps We Love and Notable Education Apps! Designed in a fun and highly effective way, it helps you learn Chinese Mandarin fast from zero to a conversational level.

With HelloChinese, learners can “learn the Chinese language, explore Chinese culture” – you not only learn Mandarin Chinese but also enjoy the process of exploring the culture behind the language. Features: ◉ Game-based Chinese learning: You will never get bored. ◉ 1000+ graded stories: read engaging stories at your level! ◉ Immersive lessons help you to have real-life, practical conversations quickly. ◉ Over 2,000 videos - all featuring authentic Chinese speakers! ◉ Innovative self-adaptive learning games that incorporate Chinese cultural education. ◉ Speech recognition corrects your pronunciation and makes speaking Chinese a breeze. ◉ Handwriting specially designed to learn Chinese characters at a faster rate. ◉ Systematic courses based on HSK levels. ◉ A well-designed Pinyin (pronunciation) course for newbies. ◉ Bite-sized curriculum to fortify your Chinese listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. ◉ Simplified and traditional Chinese(Mandarin) are both supported. ◉ Offline accessibility: Once a course is downloaded, no internet connection is required. ◉ Study progress tracking across multiple devices. With these tools at your disposal, nothing can stop you from mastering Chinese. Start on your path to fluency today! HelloChinese Premium offers: One-month subscription for $8.99 Three-month subscription for $19.99 Twelve-month subscription for $59.99 The above prices are for U.S. customers. Pricing in other countries may vary, and charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. Once purchased, subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off in your iTunes Account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the payment period. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HelloChineseApp/ Privacy Policy: http://www.hellochinese.cc/privacy.html Terms of Use: http://www.hellochinese.cc/terms.html Premium users can always reach us at [email protected] if they need any help.