Dot Languages - Learn Chinese Hack 3.0.5 + Redeem Codes

This app is really solid for helping you learn mandarin Chinese, especially with stroke order! I’m taking a college elementary mandarin class currently and wanted to find apps to help give me a leg up on the homework, tests and quizzes and this has definitely helped! When I first downloaded the app it didn’t work and I left a review saying so. Shortly afterwards the developers responded to my review and suggested certain things for me to do to get it to open and that they had fixed it and sure enough they had! Things I love about this app: - Stroke order learning! - Stories that include the vocabulary - Ability to select what you want to work on (i.e., listening, reading, or writing) Things I think could be improved: - Speaking exercises. I know the app says it’s being developed but this would really round out the app - More vibrant colors. The colors aren’t bad, but I feel like a wider variation in colors, backgrounds or something similar during exercises and practice lessons could give this app a very eye appealing look it it’s users - Pictures to help remember words. There is another app I use for learning mandarin which provides some illustrations of the characters to help one remember them better. It’s not a make or break, but it is something I've found helpful in remembering certain characters. Overall, this is a really great resource for learning mandarin and from my experience with it I highly recommend it for mandarin learners!

Great app. Developers are clearly very active in updating the app. The illustrations are a new thing which I don’t think are useful. It does not enhance our Chinese learning experience to see a drawing and an English word. Would love an option for lifetime subscription to access the premium features.

The UI is great. There is a dictionary that shows stroke order, and links to lessons where you can see the word in context. It also breaks down the words into characters and radicals, and shows similar words, all of which are linked. I enjoy reading the new story lessons, and practicing the content from the story. The character writing practice really helps me remember them and even draw them by memory. There are new stories all the time. The app is relaxing and rewarding.

I don’t usually leave reviews because it’s tedious. However, this app has NEVER made me watch an ad, so even after taking time to leave a review I feel that my time has not been wasted.

I’m also leaving a review because this is a free app and there are no ads. This is unheard of honestly and I don’t know how they paid the developers and fees, so I just wanted to show appreciation.

This app is the BEST app I’ve used since learning Mandarin. As a teen it has been difficult at times trying to find a good FREE app that allows me to learn freely. I love how this app has so many features and my favorite is the character/vocabulary exercises. Other apps focus more on comprehension but this app focuses more on learning, writing, and listening to the new words you just learned from the stories. This app has just made me more excited to learn and with the amount of stories in this app, I feel like I can just continue learning new words. I’m SO grateful to God for leading me to this app because it has helped me in so many ways. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! You won’t be disappointed! Thank you for your dedication! ❤️❤️❤️

I’ve tried a ton of Chinese language apps, including Du Chinese as well as online courses. However after using these apps for a few months I felt like I was at a point where I was stuck in knowing more vocabulary and improving my sentence structure quickly. I discovered Dot and this app is a game changer if you’re looking to quickly improve your vocabulary! I’ve felt a ton more progress in HSK 3 since using this app and it’s because this app has a more systematic way of teaching a wider range of vocabulary. Please please please keep providing this app for free! It’s the best I’ve used!

This is a fantastic app, no question about it. My only “complaint” is that it seems to be VERY unforgiving with the handwriting. I find it frustrating that if I’m off by what seems like two mm on the length of a long stroke it counts it as wrong, but I guess it will improve my handwriting in preparation for the HSK.

Thank you for this amazing app. I’m a university professor and a few of my students are studying Mandarin Chinese. I will recommend this to them.

Do you have an app for Cantonese?

The graded readers and accompanying quizzes are super useful for daily learning! There’s a new story every day for each grade level!

The in-app dictionary is incredibly convenient as well. You just tap on a word and it tells you a bunch of info including definitions, grade level, Pinyin, components, and counter words, and you can easily mark it to add to an in-app flashcard deck.

I feel so blessed to have found this app 😭😭I’m a broke teen trying to learn chinese and I’ve finally found a free app that actually is decent. After passing the beginner phase, I’ve found it difficult to improve consistently. My biggest obstacle is vocabulary, but I’m too lazy to do anki. With this I can learn new vocabulary without dying from boredom. Thanks 😀

Really liked this app when it was working and I would go on it daily. However, it froze about 2 weeks ago and never worked again. I have tried deleting the app, reinstalling, restarting my iPhone multiple times. Nothing worked. I can’t even contact the developer, so hopefully they see this review and fix whatever is wrong with it. Will update review if the problem is fixed. Thank you.

I have been using this app for 485 days and the new update has ruined it for me. The features I have used for free for over a year have now been placed under a paywall with no option of a ads-based service. I’ve used this app to practice drawing hanzi for so long as it was a useful feature, and now I cannot do that at all.

Don’t update if you want to still have access to the features that matter.