大家好！ 有一个好消息。。。AMS member Dan Hill has been working tirelessly over the last year to make the ultimate advanced Chinese learning app, and it is now live on iTunes (iOS) and Google Play (Android). This is the culmination of his 10 years of experience in finding what works.
Here are the links to see it:
The app installs as a free download. It comes with 48 hours of full content so that users can get a really good feel for what the app is and what information it contains. After 48 hours, it goes to a simplified demo version until the user completes an in-app purchase of the full license for $9.99. That is less than the cost of an hour with a language tutor!
MOST IMPORTANTLY, CORE CHINESE WILL BE MAKING A DONATION TO THE AMERICAN MANDARIN SOCIETY BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PURCHASES OVER THE NEXT 2 WEEKS, SO GET TO IT PEOPLE!
Here is more about the app in his own words:
The app started almost 10 years when I found myself sitting in a tiny cubicle on the 13th floor of an office complex in Guangzhou, China. I was the only foreigner in an office of 75 people, and I was way over my head. I had a bachelor's degree in Chinese and had spent several years in Taiwan, but I was only catching about a third of what was going on in meetings and in conversations around me. So I started writing down all the unfamiliar words I came across and cornering various co-workers at the end of each day to have them go through the words with me. I started with flashcards and then moved to spreadsheets. I got better organized and hired a tutor, and over the course of a few years in China my list of words and phrases kept growing. Since returning to the states, I have kept up my efforts as I have worked with China manufacturers and colleagues, and my list is now at almost 10,000 phrases. Over and over I have thought to myself, "Wouldn't it have been nice to have all this put together already, to have at my fingertips as I have entered different working and life situations in China. Why aren't there any resources for people like me, people with a decent foundation in Chinese who just want to pick up some new phrases in specific contexts, and speak a little more like the Chinese people do?"
So I embarked on a mission to make my list better organized, more complete, and easy to reference in everyday life. I worked with my Chinese partner, Flora Huang, to categorize each word and phrase into daily life use-case scenarios and add example sentences, Chinese explanations, and other background information to each phrase. The result is an app that I hope will be useful to people who have made the sacrifices to learn this crazy language and are looking for ways to keep it up.
