Chineasy: Learn Chinese easily 4+

Chineasy is just marvellous. I subscribed about seven months ago and have been using it daily ever since. They keep adding more features, like handwriting practice and voice recording. There is a large library of short videos and podcasts that are super helpful, wherein the creator, Shaolin, focuses on a topic, like "Six common uses of 上 (up) and 下 (down)." And you can take quizzes on words you forgot, or words in a certain category (like verbs), or all words.
And, of course, it's just a beautiful app. It's got so much content, yet is clean and uncluttered.
I still remember opening the app for the first time and learning the word 人. My ambition now is to be able to read classical Chinese poetry. Although I originally paid for the app on a whim, it's a whim that has definitely paid off.

Hi Charlie, Thank you for sharing such an interesting experience with us. So glad that you found the app helpful and enjoyed learning with us. Thank you for a 5-star rating, too. -The Chineasy Team

The app is great so I payed a yearly subscription but it really is a bit annoying the fact that inside the app you mixes up simplified Chinese with the traditional. I want to have an CLEAR option to turn off traditional. Now I selected simplified in the menu but in some of my cards (for example the card for long-长, I still see the traditional and I don’t want to put this in memory now at the begging of my journey). Also in reviewing tab (next to favourite words tab) from the selection menu I get the cards mixed up even though I selected simplified Chinese. Please do something about this, a clear option...

Second thing is that I would like to have a visible way of seeing the last lesson I did. Please make it:) because at the moment when I reopen the app I don’t remember where I was last time I closed...

Third thing, I see you have audio for all the words. Why not make a setting that will make the app play the audio of the card every time you pass from the current card to the next one? Audio listen reinforces the learning!

Hi Alexandrescu,
Thanks for such detailed feedback, it is much appreciated. Regarding the simplified and traditional, in the review section, if you only want to see the simplified characters, you will need to click 'S' tab, the one on the right side of favourite words tab.

Regarding your 2nd question, can we ask if your device is iPad or iPhone? With an iPhone device, the journey map should show you the last lesson you did whenever you start the app.

As for your third question, we did consider to play the audio automatically when users move to the next card. But we also consider some users may be in the environment which isn't allowed to have the sound come out from their device. We certainly will reconsider this!

Once again, thanks so much for your feedback and it will help us to continually improve Chineasy Cards.

I’ve tried & failed so many times to learn Chinese characters, and as anybody with understanding of mandarin knows, many Chinese words are made of combinations of other smaller words and also the combination of 2 (or even more) characters combined together to form a new word / meaning. So basically it really helps to learn the characters and not just rely on pinyin!
This app is so helpful for memorising characters in a fun and engaging way. Each character also gives background info & has amazing illustrations that’s really helpful with learning!
The next step I hope these developers will do is to have sentence testing, using the characters that appear in our ‘learnt’ section :D
Thank you for developing this! 10/10 would recommend :)

Hi,
So glad that we can help you learn Chinese. We continue to explore new features as our app evolves, so stay tuned! :)