Cool! I basically completed the Duolingo course, which I loved but whose vocabulary is a bit limited. I was just wondering where to go next, so I could really use this.
The ios version is actually ready right now, I'm just putting off filling the "paperwork" and some tiny fixes. You can try it out through expo: https://expo.io/@haint/autolang-zh
Don't worry the contents are all automatically generated from example data (Tatoeba) and the dictionary, nothing is hand crafted. I sure wouldn't trust myself writing correct Chinese sentences hehe.
Enjoying the lessons and really liking the idea of the vocabulary rank, that's probably something that would keep me using the app daily.
Some Feedback:
Is there a way to turn off the sound? At the moment it automatically repeats any answer I select which would stop me from using it on the train to work.
Also when I started practice, went away and started practice again the practice questions seem to freeze after one question.
Not for now, it only has a calibration quiz on entry to find out where you are in the vocabulary by-character rank (that probably correlates with HSK levels somehow) and start from there.
Will this app cost money in the future? (I'm ok if it does, I just want to know before if it becomes an expensive subscription service or a reasonable one time payment)
I don't have a long term plan but I can assure you that it won't ever be expensive (I'm from a third world country anyways) and early adopters today will never be charged. It's going to be free for a long while though.
I'm trying it out, and am pretty excited. Nice work! This should help a lot with out-of-HSK vocabulary for me (I'm studying for the HSK using traditional materials/anki).
It'd be helpful for me to see the character in a much larger font somehow, perhaps even with stroke order, because I don't know how to write every radical correctly yet and at that font size can't necessarily recognize them all. For example, 蟹 was a new one I got and if I increase the font size, I can figure out there's 角， 刀， 牛， 虫, but not at the font size currently in the app. I also like to practice writing the characters to reinforce (which I'll do on paper, but still need to see what it's made up of).
Thanks for checking out, I'll definitely look into the font size issue. I would also want the writing feature myself but just haven't got around to implementing it, hard to figure out where to put it too.
I have no idea how many others like me there are out there, but if you could make a pinyin-only setting that would be really cool. I'm learning mandarin but not learning characters and it makes of a lot of study apps non-useful to me if they only use hanzi.
This feels uncharitable. Pinyin is a lot easier to learn coming from a western background.
It's also used by many people as the primary input method for typing, and it's reasonable that the parent poster might not have a current need to learn characters. There's no reason to shame people for learning.
The app uses Expo, those libraries just come with Expo by default and can't be excluded, but they are unused and not enabled. Only Google Analytics is in use.
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Some Feedback:
Is there a way to turn off the sound? At the moment it automatically repeats any answer I select which would stop me from using it on the train to work.
Also when I started practice, went away and started practice again the practice questions seem to freeze after one question.
It'd be helpful for me to see the character in a much larger font somehow, perhaps even with stroke order, because I don't know how to write every radical correctly yet and at that font size can't necessarily recognize them all. For example, 蟹 was a new one I got and if I increase the font size, I can figure out there's 角， 刀， 牛， 虫, but not at the font size currently in the app. I also like to practice writing the characters to reinforce (which I'll do on paper, but still need to see what it's made up of).
and second question, why forcing a registration from the beginning ?
After registering (with a different email :)) the sound didn't seem to work.
I'm interested in seeing how this compares to it.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/reports/40782/