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| michau Tetraglot Groupie Norway lang-8.com/member/49 Joined 6231 days ago 86 posts - 135 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, NorwegianC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, Sign Language Studies: Burmese, Toki Pona, Greenlandic | Message 1 of 3 15 June 2014 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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Hello!
I've written an application that helps learning Mandarin Chinese vocabulary and sentence structure. It consists of exercises where you translate sentences from English into Chinese. Then it gives you feedback on the sentences you've written. It is most suited to learners at beginner and intermediate level, but I encourage everybody who learns Mandarin Chinese as second language to try it out - it will help me to find bugs and create more exercises. Trying it out won't take much time, perhaps 20 minutes. Click below to access the app: Chinese in Context / 上下文中文 Cheers! 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4449 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2 of 3 16 June 2014 at 6:46am | IP Logged |
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Sounds like an interesting app. for people learning Chinese.
Comments: 1. The application does have useful translating exercises. However, there are some variations of words that mean the same thing the app. did not accept. For example: "Many women like to buy clothes" would translate to: "很多女士喜欢买衣服“。On the other hand, the word "many" can be written as 很多, 好多 or 许多。According to my Chinese dictionary, all 3 variations has the meaning "many". In some cases 2 of the 3 are interchangeable. The app. should be able to allow different words that mean the same thing when applicable. 2. Writing Chinese: I don't have objections using a writing pad of some sort. I used to have a graphic writing pad hooked up to the USB of my computer with a laser pen. Now I type all my characters with Pinyin built into my Mac computer. I know some people who still scribble characters on their iPad as an input method. Being a fast typist I find typing much quicker. So far there is no grammar check program for Chinese as other European languages. The main reason is that Chinese sentences contain a string of characters that do not contain spaces between character blocks that complete a pronoun, noun, object, etc. like the way English does. For example: if you write something like: "This is my radio" you'd say: "这个是我的收音机“。In the English version "This" is clearly the subject, "is" is the verb", "radio" is a noun clearly separately by a space. But in the Chinese version it is all 1 continuous string of characters. If you are the first to come up with an app. that can scan Chinese phrases whether they are grammatically correct, this would be a huge market potential. It would make translating between Chinese & English more accurate than Google Translate already in the market. Just a suggestion... Edited by shk00design on 16 June 2014 at 6:48am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| day1 Groupie Latvia Joined 3897 days ago 93 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English | Message 3 of 3 19 June 2014 at 6:22pm | IP Logged |
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It does lack a bit of flexibility, but as a tool that is still in progress - great idea! I'll be expecting this app :)
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