Learn Chinese Words + HSK Fast

Learn Chinese Words + HSK Fast


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3.3.7for iPhone, iPod touch
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About Learn Chinese Words + HSK Fast

Level-up your Chinese vocabulary quickly and easily. 
Forget about clunky flashcards or awkward flashcard apps, and don't waste time creating flashcard decks, jump right into learning with 24 essential topics, including HSK 1 - 5

Features:
• Over 8,300 words in 25 topics.
• Unique way to view words, as easy as scrolling through your favorite social media feed!
• Traditional and Simplified characters
• Hear the words spoken aloud (by the iPhone’s built-in speech synthesizer).
• See the Pinyin pronunciation and English translation.

8,381 Words in 25 Topics & 267 Subtopics
• People: 190 Words in 7 Subtopics
• Casual Conversation: 275 Words in 9 Subtopics
• HSK 1: 150 Words in 6 Subtopics
• HSK 2: 151 Words in 6 Subtopics
• HSK 3: 299 Words in 12 Subtopics
• HSK 4: 600 Words in 24 Subtopics
• HSK 5: 1,307 Words in 27 Subtopics
• Shapes & Colors: 78 Words in 2 Subtopics
• Location & Direction: 126 Words in 4 Subtopics
• Doppelgängers: 203 Words in 5 Subtopics
• Tone Twisters: 294 Words in 8 Subtopics
• Time & Date: 223 Words in 8 Subtopics
• Food & Drink: 563 Words in 19 Subtopics
• Cooking & Eating: 288 Words in 10 Subtopics
• Restaurant Dining: 464 Words in 18 Subtopics
• Clothing: 282 Words in 10 Subtopics
• Business & Finance: 426 Words in 12 Subtopics
• Computers & Networks: 404 Words in 13 Subtopics
• Everyday Items: 362 Words in 12 Subtopics
• City & Town: 247 Words in 7 Subtopics
• House & Home: 248 Words in 8 Subtopics
• Weather & Seasons: 178 Words in 6 Subtopics
• Earth & Sky: 267 Words in 7 Subtopics
• The Body: 237 Words in 7 Subtopics
• Animals: 519 Words in 20 Subtopics
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What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.7

Last updated on Mar 27, 2024
Old Versions
• When scrolling words upwards the new word will now always stop at the middle of the screen, just before the pinyin appears and the word is spoken. No need to "catch" it with your thumb before it reveals the answers!

• Also adjusted the autospeak 'trigger zones' - now you can easily hear the word spoken repeatedly by scrolling it down a bit and back up without lifting your thumb off the screen.

• Modified the word/lap counter label

• Internal fixes
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Version History
3.3.7
Mar 27, 2024
• When scrolling words upwards the new word will now always stop at the middle of the screen, just before the pinyin appears and the word is spoken. No need to "catch" it with your thumb before it reveals the answers!

• Also adjusted the autospeak 'trigger zones' - now you can easily hear the word spoken repeatedly by scrolling it down a bit and back up without lifting your thumb off the screen.

• Modified the word/lap counter label

• Internal fixes
3.3.6
Mar 25, 2024
• Under-the-hood tweaks
3.3.5
Mar 22, 2024
• Audio improvements: 
- Sound will be muted when the mute switch is activated. (also when volume is turned down to zero)
- Audio reliability improved when switching between apps.
3.3.4
Mar 15, 2024
• Under-the-hood improvements
3.3.3
Feb 8, 2024
• Internal improvements
3.3.2
Feb 7, 2024
Vocab Updates -
Time & Date - 2 new subtopics:
Past, Present & Future
Holidays & Festivals

Other Additions -
Computers & Networks
Keys & Keyboards: 跳格键

Food
Vegetables: 尖椒

Restaurant Dining
Candy & Sweets: 蛋挞
3.3.1
Jan 22, 2024
• Dark mode background color darkened a bit (looks better in low light)

• Updated some characters that have multiple ways to pronounce (e.g. 长, 行) to show/speak both pronunciations.

• New words and topic updates:
- Everyday Items: Stationery: 贴纸
Also moved some words out of the 'everyday items' subtopic and created a new subtopic: Materials
- Restaurant Dining: 鲁菜, 闽菜, 浙菜, 冰糖葫芦
- Time & Date: 天亮
- The Body: 人体
3.3
Dec 26, 2023
BRAND NEW TOPIC: Restaurant Dining - vocab for dining out, ordering food, typical dishes in Chinese and Western cuisine, other kinds of prepared food and lots of drinks.

Changes to the App:
• Option to override Dark/Light mode system settings
• App now remembers where you were (what topic/subtopic was chosen) if it is quit and restarted.
• Under the hood improvements


Several Topics have been restructured:
- Food & Drink: several subtopics were moved to the new Restaurant Dining topic
- Cooking & Eating: created a new subtopic "Textures" using words from Flavors
- Computers & Networks: created a new subtopic “Files & Folders” using words from OS's and Software
- Business & Finance: created new subtopic "Employment" using words from Labor


Word Additions:
Computers & Networks:
Operating Systems: 蓝屏死机
Files & Folders: 快捷方式
The Internet: 物联网, 抓取程序

People:
General: 男孩儿, 女孩儿

Business & Finance
Business: 经商
Labor: 辞去, 报销
Employment: 录用, 实习, 自由职业, 职位, 合同
Money: 本位货币/本币, 外币
Transactions: 免费

Everyday Items
Household Products: 手纸

Clothing
Accessories 2: 副手套

City & Town
Vehicles: 的士

House & Home
Places to Live: 洞府

Food
Meats: 肉沫, 肉松, 野味
Sauces: 苏梅酱, 红油

Cooking & Eating
Meals: 膳食, 套餐
Flavor: 开胃

Animals:
Domesticated: 家畜, 牲口
Large Mammals: 兽类, 野兽
3.2.4
Jul 17, 2023
Improvements
• Fixes to the daily reminder system
• Updates to the User's Guide
• Settings: Improved Traditional/Simplified switch
• Settings: Link to the System's App Settings page (to enable notifications)

Vocabulary Updates:
Family
Close Family: 伴侣
Father’s Side: 重孙, 重孙女, 玄孙

Casual Conversation:
New subtopic!: Cheers - words of encouragement (these are used in the daily practice reminders you can enable in the app)

Weather
Seasons: 冬季, 春季, 夏季, 秋季, 冬令, 春令, 夏令, 秋令

Parts of the Body
Head: 汗毛孔
Hair: 一缕头发, 一撮头发, 一绺头发, 一撮山羊胡, 体毛

City & Town
Roads & Highways: 排水沟

House & Home
Parts of the House: 天沟
Household Appliances: 温控器, 恒温器, 烟雾报警器

Cooking & Eating
Meals: 野炊, 道菜
Flavor: 清爽, 爽脆

Food
Fruits 2: 冬瓜, 苦瓜, 香瓜
3.2.3
Jun 5, 2023
• Various and sundry fixes

• Lots more new words:
Shapes & Colors
Colors: 鲜艳, 彩色, 漆黑

Everyday Items,
Stationery: 信件

Business & Finance:
Staff: 所有主, 所有者, 技术工人
Shopping: 旧货, 二手货, 二维码

Animals:
Insects & Worms: 蜣螂, 幼虫, 蟑螂, 蜚蠊, 虼蚤, 蛞蝓, 蜒蚰, 千足虫, 大黄蜂, 白蚁, 螨虫, 尘螨, 蜱, 虱, 蛾子, 鼠妇, 潮虫
Animal Lairs: 蜘蛛网
Fish: 淡水鱼

Cooking&Eating
Flavor: 霉变, 发霉

Food:
Fruits 1: 果子, 蟠桃
Dairy: 乳制品, 奶品, 乳脂
Vegetables 2: 薯蓣

Earth & Sky
Bodies of Water: 水帘

Business & Finance
Finance & Banking: 资金

House & Home
Places to Live: 公馆
Parts of the House: 扶梯
Household Appliances: 除湿器

City & Town
Places in the City: 摩天楼, 大厦
Shopping: 电梯, 自动扶梯

Clothing
Footwear: 鞋码
3.2.2
Apr 23, 2023
Lots of new words in several Topics:
• Tone Twisters, Miscellaneous: 美石/美式/美事
• Clothing, Accessories 2: 耳套, 耳罩
• Food
Grains & Beans: 糯稻, 黄豆
Meats: 牛柳, 肘子
• Cooking & Eating
Flavor: 口感, 美食, 美味, 佳肴
Meals: 宴席
• Everyday Items
Containers: 木桶
Office Supplies, 胶水, 胶棒, 口红胶, 方便贴, 便利贴, 涂改液, 修正液
• House & Home
Places to Live: 家居
Rooms in the Home: 堆房
• Business & Finance
Transactions: 付款方式
Finance & Banking: 转账
• Computers & Networks
Operating Systems: 图标, 属性, 保存, 打印, 关掉, 图片, 死机
Software: 功能, 程序, 截图
Networking: 插入
Email: 发邮件, 转发
The Internet: 评论

Also some updates to Animals, Birds & Other Mammals
3.2.1
Apr 7, 2023
Big updates to two topics:
Casual Conversation: two new subtopics: Exclamations, and Insults
Animals: primates & marine mammals get their own subtopics, other minor fixes & updates.

Many other Topic updates: Tone Twisters, City & Town, Weather, Earth & Sky, Computers & Networks, Clothing, Everyday Items, Food, Cooking & Eating, Date & Time
3.2
Mar 14, 2023
Added better support for Traditional characters. There is now a switch in the settings to choose between simplified or traditional characters, also you can toggle using the (s)/(t) icons on the review screens. Also now the app will show traditional characters in the topic & subtopic list views.

Added a daily reminder feature: will set an optional daily practice reminder.

Vocab List Updates:
• Big update to Food topic: split Meats & Dairy into 3 subtopics - Meat, Seafood, & Dairy, and added many new words including lots of new fruits.
• Restructured Cooking & Eating topic: added lots of new cooking utensils, added 'Pots & Pans' subtopic.
• Many updates to other topics, including Animals, Clothing, Casual Conversation, Colors & Shapes, Computers, and Everyday Items
3.1
Feb 15, 2023
The app now announces the Topic and Sub-topic verbally when selected, unless the autospeak option is disabled.

Some significant reorganization on several Free Topics:
• People: added new subtopic: 姻亲 - In-Laws, and re-arranged some other topics.
• Casual Conversation: added new subtopic: 祝福 - Well Wishes, with lots of wishes and greetings from Chinese New Year, Birthdays, and more.
• Doppelgängers: added, removed or moved several words.

Other changes & additions:
• Clothing: over 30 new words and a new topic (Footwear)
• Food: 珍笋 - bamboo shoots, 无花果 - fig, 煎饼 - crêpe/pancake
• Cooking & Eating: Lots of additions and updates to Food Preparation subtopic
• Body: 泪管 - tear duct
• Animals: 鬣狗 - hyena

3.0
Jan 19, 2023
New Feature: Cruise Mode!
In cruise mode the characters advance automatically, pausing for the clue, then again for the answer.

Updates/Additions:
HSK 2: 长 - fixed pronunciation
People: reogranized subtopics Close Family, and Relatives
Cooking & Eating: 开胃 - appetizing
Food: 柚子 - pomelo, 沙茶 - satay sauce, reorganized several subtopics
City & Town: 商铺 - store
House & Home: 盥洗室 - bathroom
Animals: 枪乌贼 - squid, 乌贼 - cuttlefish, 鳝 - Chinese yellow eel, 海参 - sea cucumber
2.2.2
Jan 5, 2023
Updates/Additions:
Dopplegangers: new subtopic "Double Agents" - 多音字 - 15 characters with multiple pronunciations and/or meanings
Shapes & Colors: 暗淡 - dark/dull, 碧绿 - dark green, 国防色 - camouflage
Cooking & Eating: 酥 - flaky
Food: 麦芽 - malt
Everyday Items: 细绳 - string/cord, 毡头笔 - felt-tip pen
Animals: 蚊子 - mosquito, 蟋蟀 - cricket, 甲鱼 - turtle, 刺猬 - hedgehog
2.2.1
Dec 27, 2022
Fixes & Updates:
• Casual Conversation
• HSK4
• Food & Drink
• Everyday Items

2.2
Dec 13, 2022
New Topic: Business & Finance! 395 words in 11 subtopics, relating to business, money, transactions, shopping, finance (borrowing and lending), shopping, investing, real estate, and more.
2.1.1
Dec 7, 2022
• Animals topic: added a new subtopic with animal sounds
• Food topic: split Bread & Noodles into 2 subtopics, added more words.
• Minor updates to The Body, Earth & Sky, Cooking & Eating, others.
2.1
Nov 25, 2022
• New Topic! Earth & Sky: over 250 words about the earth and its terrain.
• Updates and fixes to many other topics
2.0.2
Nov 8, 2022
• Fixes to tones for a couple words in HSK 2 & 3.
• Updates to many words in HSK 4
• Toggling the autospeak button will reset lost audio.
2.0.1
Oct 27, 2022
Minor fixes and updates to Location & Direction, House & Home, City & Town.
2.0
Oct 24, 2022
Now you can choose from many new Chinese voices in iOS16! (Supports Mainland Chinese and Taiwan voices only). Try some of the new enhanced or premium quality voices. I like Binbin (male) and Lili (female).

Also updated various topics, including: Casual Conversation, Doppelgängers, City & Town, House & Home, Everyday Items, Food and Cooking & Eating.
1.6.6
Oct 8, 2022
• Lots of updates & additions to Weather & Seasons.
• Also minor changes to a few other topics.
1.6.5
Oct 1, 2022
Major updates to the Computers & Networks topic:
• added 2 new subtopics: Popular Websites, and Email

Lots of updates and fixes to other free and paid topics, including but not limited to:
• Everyday Items
• Time & Date
• City & Town
• Food
• Location & Direction
• Animals
• House & Home
• Clothing
• Weather

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Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
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Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Learn Chinese Words + HSK Fast supports English
Learn Chinese Words + HSK Fast contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
HSK 2 (2012)
$0.00
HSK 3 (2012)
$1.99
Location & Direction
$0.99
HSK 4 (2012)
$2.99
The Body
$0.99
HSK 5 (2012)
$4.99
Food & Drink
$1.99
Restaurant Dining
$1.99
Earth & Sky
$0.99
Business & Finance
$1.99

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