Mandarin Medical Phrases

Qvyshift LLC

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About this app

Mandarin medical terminology phrases for medical professionals and language learners. With Mandarin text and audio.

Using this app, you can select an English phrase and view its translation and how to pronounce it in the foreign language.

This app was originally developed as an entry to the 2010 CIO/G6 "Apps for the Army" competition, and it is based on the modules publicly available online from the U.S. Defense Language Institute. While this app's subject matter relates mainly to military topics, the app is broadly useful with content relating to a range of topics.

• Contains over 600 phrases with native speaker audio recordings
• Dictionary-style lookup: Type or say what you want to search
• Pronunciation help: See the transliterated/Romanized text
• Good for language learning, or as a reference

This app is part of a series of phrasebook apps published for many different languages and dialects. Phrasebooks in the series are available as "basic" and "medical" variants.

• Text may be exported as Anki flash cards
• Works offline: No network connection is required
• Search bar for quick vocabulary lookup
• No login or registration needed
• Dark background color minimizes eye strain

Many of the languages covered by this series of phrasebook apps are under-resourced, with translation apps and dictionaries not widely available from other sources.

Categories

Introduction
Guidance
Registration
Assessment
Surgical Consent
Trauma
Procedures
Foley (Catheter)
Surgery Instructions
Pain Interview
Medicine Interview
Orthopedic
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Pediatrics
Cardiology
Ophthalmology
Neurology
Exam Commands
Caregiver
Post-Op/Prognosis
Medical Conditions
Pharmaceutical
Diseases

How to use

1. Choose a subject category from the menu. That category will be expanded.
2. From the expanded list of phrases shown, tap on the phrase you want.
3. On the phrase detail page, the Mandarin phrase is shown alongside its pronunciation and the equivalent English phrase. Press the Play button to hear the audio pronunciation by a native speaker.

Ideal for

• U.S. Military service members
• Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals
• Travelers
• Aid workers
• Linguists

Languages and dialects available in this series

Albanian, Algerian, Amharic, Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Egyptian, Emirati, French, Gan (Jiangxinese), Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian, Hassaniya, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa), Iraqi, Japanese, Javanese, Jordanian, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean (North), Kosovar (Albanian), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lebanese, Libyan, Lingala, Malay, Mandarin, Mongolian, Moroccan, Nepali, Palestinian, Pashto (Afghanistan), Pashto (Pakistan), Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Punjabi, Quechua, Russian, Saudi, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali, Sorani, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Venezuela), Sudanese, Swahili, Syrian, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamashek, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tunisian, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Shanghainese, Yakan, Yemeni, Yoruba

Making flash cards: Launch app and choose "Flash cards" from the menu in the top corner, and follow the prompts.

Ratings and reviews

It is useful to have the different phrases in categories for quick reference. It would be nice to have the option of traditional characters for the phrases. The app has too much ads.

Very useful! It would be nice if it used a standard romanization like pinyin or Wade-Giles. Also it would be nice if there were tone markings on the romanization.

This is great for somebody who has basic knowledge of Mandarin, but would like to learn more medical and technical terminology. The only problem is in the "medical interview" section. In that category all of the spoken translations are messed up and 1 off (so it is translating for the phrase before it). Otherwise would have given 5 stars.