Dong Chinese - Learn Mandarin
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About this app
Learn new words in their full context through thousands of real example sentences, captioned images, songs, and videos.
Understand the building blocks of Chinese characters through full explanations of their component parts and etymology.
Keep track of your progress over time, and find new content appropriate for your level.
Understand the building blocks of Chinese characters through full explanations of their component parts and etymology.
Keep track of your progress over time, and find new content appropriate for your level.
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Review by A Google user on January 21, 2020
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Outstanding app! I've tried a lot of Chinese learning apps, and this is by far and away the best! It properly explains the etymology, the context learning is superb, the amount of repetition is great, the charts are great, the ads are unobtrusive. This is exactly what was in my head when I was thinking of writing my own Chinese app - how did you reach inside my mind??? Edit - those are related YouTube clips, not ads? And it all ties into the learning? Oh man, this app deserves 10 stars!
1 person found this review helpful
Peter Olson
January 14, 2020
Thanks so much for your review! I am a bit curious about the unobtrusive ads, since Dong Chinese does not profit from advertising. Are you perhaps referring to the "recommended media" which recommends videos to watch based on the words you can understand?
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February 5, 2020
Great app, very easy to use, indepth reading and writing. But it's really only part of a language learning program. I would rate 5 stars but $10 per month is too expensive for something is more of a supplemental program than a complete language learning program. This cost is too high of a barrier to everyone I have tried to reccomend this to. It should be worth noting all the reveiws posted before Nov 2019 were from when this app was free. It now requires a subscription of $10 a month to use.
5 people found this review helpful
Peter Olson
February 6, 2020
Thanks for your feedback! After the free trial expires you can still study a lesson and listen to a media item every 12 hours, which is enough for many users.
However, keeping Dong Chinese alive is not cheap and requires some support.
In any case, reach out to peter@dong-chinese.com if you would like to use Dong Chinese but cannot afford it.
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November 25, 2019
It's similar to ClozeMaster but includes a lot more features and it aggregates lots of Chinese audio/video content to supplement the vocab learning, which is totally unique. The dictionary is similar and sometimes better than the Outlier dictionary on Pleco. I wish the sentence audio was better than the standard TTS. I also wish I could turn of the AI Challenger sentences because they feel lower quality, especially for beginner levels. But totally worth it!
3 people found this review helpful
Peter Olson
November 25, 2019
Thanks for the feedback! Improving the sentence quality is an ongoing process that I'm working on, and beginner levels will require a significant amount of manual review. In any case I'm glad you found Dong Chinese useful!
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July 13, 2019
This app is AMAZING! Beautifully programmed and easy to use, it incorporates reading, writing, listening, and speaking modalities along with cultural and historical resources. It is an absolute game-changer for working on characters. I literally cried when I saw what I could write after just a few weeks of practice. I have worked on multiple languages using all sorts of resources. I can say that this app is the most helpful I have ever encountered.
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