App Detail » Learn a Chinese Phrase

What's New

Five new phrases have been added, for a total of ten.

App Description

Idioms and other set phrases are a crucial and colorful part of the Chinese language. This app provides a thorough introduction to ten selected phrases through a series of learning activities:

1) Video of a short, comic skit illustrating the use of the phrase
2) Supplementary video explaining to the use of the phrase in different contexts
3) Learner's guide providing additional explanatory and usage notes
4) Character trainer demonstrating how each character in the phrase is written and enabling users to practice writing it themselves
5) Flashcards to test users' mastery of the new vocabulary they've learned
6) Sentence scramble to practice restoring characters in sample sentences to their correct sequence

This app was developed to accompany the Learn a Chinese Phrase series, a project of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University. Additional videos in the series can be found on their website at:

http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/ci/LanguageVideos

App Changes

• November 05, 2014 Initial release
• December 04, 2014 New version 1.1
• October 12, 2015 New version 2.0