iChinese helps you to learn Chinese!
As a native application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, iChinese is the ideal companion to let you at any time and any place look up Chinese characters in the dictionary or to find out the correct pronounciation of a word.
You want more than flashcards? With the intelligent Trainer you can train vocabulary from wellknown Chinese training courses. iChinese makes use of diversified exercises types, like writing, reading and listening exercises.
FEATURES:
* Dictionary functionality
- search offline for Chinese characters, Pinyin or the meaning
- handwriting input of Chinese characters makes use of the iOS' Chinese keyboard
- view of all search results in a well arranged list
- detail-view of dictionary entries with Chinese speech output (requires the speech output pack Mandarin to be installed, available for sale now on the AppStore)
- included in delivery are two dictionaries (Chinese-English-Chinese, Chinese-German-Chinese)
* Trainer functionality
- training of vocabulary by means of memorizing, writing, reading and listening
- an intelligent trainer manages the training progress
- automatic planning of the next training session
- possibility to select lessons and exercise types by yourself
- memorizing exercises to memorize the new vocabulary (Chinese characters, pinyin, meaning)
- writing exercises with intuitive drawing on the touchscreen and analysis of the painted characters
- reading exercises with multiple choice
- listening exercises with multiple choice (requires the speech output pack Mandarin to be installed, available for sale now on the AppStore)
- included in delivery are the first 4 lessons with vocabulary from the training book "Practical Chinese Reader 1"
- further lessons can be bought later through the AppStore (two lesson packs with additional 16 lessons are available for sale now on the AppStore)
* extensible library
- overview of all installed lessons, dictionaries and functions
- speech output in Mandarin is available for sale on the AppStore now!
- further lessons for iChinese available for sale on the AppStore (currently two lesson packs available)
SCOPE OF DELIVERY:
- iChinese with dictionary and trainer functionality
- the free Chinese-English dictionary CC-CEDICT (http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cc-cedict) with more than 99.000 entries
- the free Chinese-German dictionary HanDeDict (from 2010-10-12, www.chdw.de) with more than 148.000 entries
- vocabulary from lessons 1 to 4 of "Practical Chinese Reader 1"
iChinese gets constantly improved. Lesson packs for further training books/courses are under development.
