Description

Learning to read and write Chinese characterspresents two challenges to both non-native learners as well asChinese children who first start learning characters:

- the complexity of characters, as an average character consists ofabout 12 strokes;
- matching characters with their pronunciation, pinyin and themeaning;

This new version of Chinese Characters First Steps tackles thesetwo challenges on one screen to help you learn, recognize andremember the most frequently used 400 plus characters in asystematic, friendly and fun way. Rather than having a textbook,audio device, dictionary and a notebook to write, you get thestroke-by-stroke writing, the native-speaker pronunciation, pinyin,English definition and instructions in one interactiveexperience.

These 400 plus characters are introduced in the OpenUniversity's Beginners' Chinese module
第一步 Dì yī bù (L197) and drawn from the most commonly and frequentlyused word list published by the Ministry of Education of PRC(China). By combining them, you will learn a further 230+ usefulwords and phrases. For example, you learn the threesingle-character words for 'red' (红 hóng), 'green' (绿lǜ) and'light' (灯dēng), which put together make up the word 'trafficlights', which you will find in one of the word search puzzles.

There are 20 lessons which chronologically build upon eachother.

Each lesson has 4 sections:

- Writing Practice
- Listening Test
- Reading Test
- Word Search

The first five lessons with characters and related activitiesare included free to give you a taste of what this app can do. Theother 15 lessons are available via in-app purchase for a total of£1.49 by tapping the 'upgrade' button.

PLEASE NOTE:
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No personal or device information is gathered.

By installing this app you give consent to The open University touse Google Analytics in the manner stated above.