9.9.4
2023-10-21
• New lesson! Introducing a new lesson in HSK 1: "What is the Mahjong board game?". Dive in to learn about this traditional Chinese game and its cultural significance. We constantly strive to provide valuable content and enhance your learning experience. Your feedback is always appreciated!
• New supported languages! Now supporting Portuguese, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages! Please Note: these new languages are generated by AI and might contain errors. We value and appreciate your feedback to improve translation accuracy. Thank you for being a part of our community!
• Less ads! Great news! We've removed the bottom advertisement banner to enhance your experience. Now you can focus entirely on the dictionary, vocabulary, and lessons without distractions!
• Improvements: In this update, we've addressed numerous minor issues throughout the app and enhanced the layouts specifically for iPhone users. We are working now on iPad layouts. We're always striving for a smoother user experience.
• Content improvements: Improved 谈, 談, 烟, 煙, and 烤 stroke order animations. Fixed traditional version of 面条儿, it is 麵條兒. Fixed a punctuation mark ":" on second HSK4 story that makes difficult to complete.
9.9.3
2023-08-31
• New lessons! We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "What are Chinese Radical?" and "What are the most common Chinese Radicals?".
• Added some minor app and content improvements.
9.9.2
2023-08-10
• Fixed texts & labels on Chinesimple HSK 5. Fixed error playing the sentence "既然来了,就多待一会吧" on the Fill the Gap game.
• Improved 语, 語, 烧, and 燒 stroke order animations.
• Translation improvements: improved some French translations. Thank you, Éric.
• Translation improvements: improved some Russian words translation. Thank you, Liubov.
• Pronunciation improvements on HSK 5. Thank you very much, Serene.
9.9.1
2023-08-01
• New Dictionary Stroke search: Now you can perform searches within the dictionary by handwriting the strokes.
• New Dictionary Speech Search: Finally, the speech dictionary search is available on iOS. In the dictionary, there are two buttons on the bottom to perform a Chinese speech search or speech search using the language configured on the app (English, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish).
• Dictionary improved search: Now the dictionary allows you to use upper or lower case, and it does not condition the result. Additionally, search results are now displayed in ascending pinyin order.
• We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters" and "The Reason for Simplified Characters".
• iPad improvements: We have improved some iPad screens to adapt the UI correctly to big screens.
• We added some Russian translation improvements.
9.9.0
2023-07-29
• New Dictionary Stroke search: Now you can perform searches within the dictionary by handwriting the strokes.
• New Dictionary Speech Search: Finally, the speech dictionary search is available on iOS. In the dictionary, there are two buttons on the bottom to perform a Chinese speech search or speech search using the language configured on the app (English, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish).
• Dictionary improved search: Now the dictionary allows you to use upper or lower case, and it does not condition the result. Additionally, search results are now displayed in ascending pinyin order.
• We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters" and "The Reason for Simplified Characters".
• iPad improvements: We have improved some iPad screens to adapt the UI correctly to big screens.
• We added some Russian translation improvements.
9.7.0
2023-05-19
• We have added 103 new sentences to continue offering you more and more examples of each word. If you are using the vocabulary version 2.0, you will be able to use all these sentences in Chinesimple HSK 4 games but remember that in the dictionary, they will appear as examples in any app.
• If you are using vocabulary 3.0, the sentences will appear at the level that corresponds to them: HSK 2 (13), HSK 3 (35), HSK 4 (28), HSK 5 (15), HSK 6 (7) and HSK 7-9 (5).
• Fixed a problem when opening the screen with the example sentences of a word that shares the same hanzi with another word. The correct sentences are now displayed.
• Fixed 灾, 瓶, 觉, 邊, 炼, 們, 灾 and 萬 stroke animation order.
• Serene continues to help us improve speech recognition in the pronunciation game with the reports she sends us, now for HSK level 5. As always, we are happy to keep improving the app. Thank you very much!
• Many improvements to the German translation. Thank you again, Sören.
• Many improvements to the French translation. Thank you very much, Éric.
• Many minor corrections to HSK 5 lessons.
• Improved 不大 Flashcard image.
• We have updated our Terms of Use & Privacy. You can read them in the section "About Khanji School".
9.6.3
2023-03-27
• Three new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to the origin of Chinese writing", "Characters from the Chinese alphabet", and "The shape of Chinese characters".
• Fixed 填 and 慎 stroke animations.
9.6.2
2023-03-24
• Many improvements to the Italian translation for the HSK 4 level have been added. Thank you, Kevin, for your help. Also, we have added many improvements to the German translation. Thank you, Sören, for your help.
• Fixed 怕, 牌, 较, 级/級, 炒 and 热 stroke order.
• Added two missing flashcard images: 手 and 老婆.
• Added some new cases to the Pronunciation game to make it easy to complete some sentences.
9.6.1
2023-03-16
• New lesson: "The "Erhua" 儿化 pronunciation": With this new HSK1 lesson, you will learn what the pronunciation "Erhua" 儿化 is, how to use it, and several examples.
• New lesson: "The usage of 倒 [dào] as an adverb": In this new lesson of HSK 5, you will learn the three common uses of 倒 as an adverb.
• My Chinesimple Certificate: Suppose you have completed most of the Chinesimple HSK course tasks. In that case, you can get the Chinesimple HSK Certificate which certificates their completion as proof that you have completed the HSK course objectives set during the learning process. You can find "My Certificate" into "My HSK Course".
• Notifications information page: A new information page is displayed before requesting app notification permissions. You will be informed why Chinesimple's notifications are so helpful. Take advantage of the incredible surprises (some for a limited time) a notification can give you.
9.5.5
2023-02-28
• HSK 5 v3.0 vocabulary is available! 1071 new words, native audio, flashcards, and stroke animations are now playable on HSK 5 app. Enjoy this content for free!
• Some new v2.0 flashcards are available! We have improved and updated almost 100 HSK v2.0 flashcards. Time to enjoy!
• Improved dictionary search: now you can do any search without accents, but the dictionary will return accented results. This improvement is helpful for any French, Italian, or Spanish search.
• Fixes: Solved a bug on the dictionary that duplicated the current level word results. Removed a not valid achievement into the achievement list. Fixed HSK 3 bug on dark mode, it is now working as expected.
9.4.0
2023-01-26
• We have created four new lessons for HSK 1 level to extend the study of 拼音 [pīnyīn]:
• "What is 拼音 [pīnyīn]?": This new lesson replaces the current pinyin lesson. The new lesson will give you more precise and extensive knowledge about pinyin from the basics.
• "How to pronounce 拼音 [pīnyīn] (1) and (2)": two lessons with which you will be able to learn all the possible combinations of pinyin and their pronunciation.
• "拼音 [pīnyīn]: Special uses": we must not forget that there are particular cases, such as the sound "ü" or the use of the apostrophe. In this lesson, we explain it.
• Improved a few English, German, and Russian translations. 是不是 tones changed to [shìbúshì]. Also, the stroke order of 万 and 筷子 have been fixed.
9.3.4
2023-01-04
• Improvements for the "Multi option" game: now the possible answers never include Chinese characters to avoid giving clues. In addition, we have improved the algorithm so that there cannot be two answers with the same hanzi.
• A lot of improvements to the Italian translation of the lessons and sentences for HSK 3. Thank you, Kevin, for your help.
• The stroke order for these words has been fixed: 放心, 潮湿, 冷淡, and 难怪.
9.3.3
2022-11-04
• Chinesimple coupon codes: if you have a promotional coupon code, you can apply it on the subscription plans screen.
• "Board game" now plays the word audio when a pair is completed.
• Improved tutorial & loading layout.
• Fixed Dictionary search for tag HSK7-8-9.
• Correction on HSK 3 & 4 sentence "你的普通话说的很标准": 的 has been replaced with 得.
• We have applied some translation improvements to all the available languages. Italian translation improvements by Kevin, 谢谢!
9.3.2
2022-10-05
• Fixed the stroke order of these hanzi: 植, 旅游, 老, 學.
• Recorded new native audio for sentence "你能帮个忙吗?".
• Improved more HSK 4 sentences pronunciation recognition results for the "Pronunciation" game, 谢谢 Serene!
• Italian translation improvements, thank you Kevin!
• Minor corrections on some HSK1, HSK4, and HSK5 lessons.
9.3.0
2022-10-02
• The new plans to be PRO are now available: monthly subscription and annual subscription. The lifetime license purchase is also available for all those who prefer a single payment.
• Fixed the bug that crashes the app in rare conditions opening the side menu.
• Applied some layout improvements.
• Some French, Italian, and Russian translation improvements.
• Improved some HSK 4 & HSK 5 sentences pronunciation recognition for "Pronunciation" game.
9.2.9
2022-08-08
• New! Play button in the dictionary word detail screen to play stroke animation as many times as you want.
• New! Many "Hanzi writing" game stroke detection improvements, one of them is that it now detects the wrong direction of the stroke.
• New! If you fail a stroke in "Hanzi writing" a message will tell you why the stroke is invalid: too long, too short, wrong direction, etc.
• Now you can open the current sentence of a game in the dictionary to know the meaning of each word. If you have not completed the game, you will only be able to see the part that you have completed.
• Fixed "Listening stories" bug that shows the same game answers in a loop.
• Fixed the setting "sound fx on/off", now it mutes the app fx sounds as expected.
• Improved some sentences audio that uses 您 instead of 你.
• Fixed the stroke order of 睡, 象 and 显.
• Corrected the pinyin of 尺 [chǐ].
• Added the last two missing audios for the HSK5 story "迈克 Màikè (第一部分)".
• Lot of sentences French translation improvements, 谢谢 Éric!
• Some lessons French translation improvements, 谢谢 Éric!
• Improved some HSK 4 sentences pronunciation recognition for "Pronunciation" game, 谢谢 Serene!
• Finally, we have managed to solve the problem that caused the closure of the app in games and Flashcards for some users.
9.2.7
2022-07-28
We have applied some changes with the aim of solving the problem in the app that some users are experiencing.
9.2.6
2022-07-22
• HSK 4 vocabulary v3.0 is now available! 1000 new words, audios, flashcards, and stroke animations are now available & playable on HSK 4 app. Enjoy this content for free :)
• Working on HSK 4 vocabulary v3.0 we have taken the opportunity to improve and update almost 200 HSK 4 v2.0 flashcards.
• Word and Flashcard games: tap on hanzi or pinyin opens the word detail screen on most of the games
• The dictionary shows the result count on the footer.
• Dictionary search apostrophe problem has been fixed.
• We are trying to fix the crash of the app that some users experience in games. If you have this problem write us with the details to help us find the problem.
9.2.5
2022-06-22
• Game buttons are now colored and scaled on tap to improve UX. Also improved the starred button color animation and progress circle widget on menus.
• Improved 多少 small Flashcard on HSK1. 大都 pinyin changed to [dàdōu] on HSK5.
• A new audio has been recorded for the sentence "请帮我翻译一下这句话可以吗?".
• Improved "Pronunciation" voice recognition result for HSK1 sentence "我要这间".
9.2.4
2022-05-30
• Real writing stroke animations: all the stroke animations that you can enjoy in "Hanzi writing" and "Stroke Count" games have been written by hand by a native. In this way, you will practice and learn with real writing and not with artificial animations.
• Dictionary word detail screen also shows the real hanzi stroke animations.
• The new "Hanzi writing" game is available! The old "Strokes" game has been replaced with a super improved version that includes: stroke animations, a stroke correction system, all words are writable and much more!
• "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations to show you all the strokes when a question is completed. It also uses all the level words, not only one hanzi words.
• Removed the bottom banner ad from games! This will improve user experience on games, especially if you use the app on a device with a small screen.
• We have improved the response in games to be much faster and more dynamic. Improved games response.
• Many other improvements! Vocabulary sentence layout fixes to show all sentences lines. Some German sentences translation improvements, thank you for the reports Sören :) Some French translation improvements.Fix Pronunciation game for HSK1 sentence 票再贵我也要去. Fix for the "Board game" and "Pair Cards" progress. Fix for the unlock Flashcard bug.
9.2.3
2022-05-26
• Real writing stroke animations: all the stroke animations that you can enjoy in "Hanzi writing" and "Stroke Count" games have been written by hand by a native. In this way, you will practice and learn with real writing and not with artificial animations.
• Dictionary word detail screen also shows the real hanzi stroke animations.
• The new "Hanzi writing" game is available! The old "Strokes" game has been replaced with a super improved version that includes: stroke animations, a stroke correction system, all words are writable and much more!
• "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations to show you all the strokes when a question is completed. It also uses all the level words, not only one hanzi words.
• Removed the bottom banner ad from games! This will improve user experience on games, especially if you use the app on a device with a small screen.
• We have improved the response in games to be much faster and more dynamic. Improved games response.
• Many other improvements! Vocabulary sentence layout fixes to show all sentences lines. Some German sentences translation improvements, thank you for the reports Sören :) Some French translation improvements.Fix Pronunciation game for HSK1 sentence 票再贵我也要去. Fix for the "Board game" and "Pair Cards" progress.
9.2.1
2022-05-22
• Real writing stroke animations: all the stroke animations that you can enjoy in "Hanzi writing" and "Stroke Count" games have been written by hand by a native. In this way, you will practice and learn with real writing and not with artificial animations.
• Dictionary word detail screen also shows the real hanzi stroke animations.
• The new "Hanzi writing" game is available! The old "Strokes" game has been replaced with a super improved version that includes: stroke animations, a stroke correction system, all words are writable and much more!
• "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations to show you all the strokes when a question is completed. It also uses all the level words, not only one hanzi words.
• Removed the bottom banner ad from games! This will improve user experience on games, especially if you use the app on a device with a small screen.
• We have improved the response in games to be much faster and more dynamic. Improved games response.
• Many other improvements! Vocabulary sentence layout fixes to show all sentences lines. Some German sentences translation improvements, thank you for the reports Sören :) Some French translation improvements.Fix Pronunciation game for HSK1 sentence 票再贵我也要去.
9.2.0
2022-05-21
• Real writing stroke animations: all the stroke animations that you can enjoy in "Hanzi writing" and "Stroke Count" games have been written by hand by a native. In this way, you will practice and learn with real writing and not with artificial animations.
• Dictionary word detail screen also shows the real hanzi stroke animations.
• The new "Hanzi writing" game is available! The old "Strokes" game has been replaced with a super improved version that includes: stroke animations, a stroke correction system, all words are writable and much more!
• "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations to show you all the strokes when a question is completed. It also uses all the level words, not only one hanzi words.
• Removed the bottom banner ad from games! This will improve user experience on games, especially if you use the app on a device with a small screen.
• We have improved the response in games to be much faster and more dynamic. Improved games response.
• Many other improvements! Vocabulary sentence layout fixes to show all sentences lines. Some German sentences translation improvements, thank you for the reports Sören :) Some French translation improvements.Fix Pronunciation game for HSK1 sentence 票再贵我也要去.
9.1.5
2022-02-09
• We've added 100 new example sentences for you! For the HSK vocabulary v2.0, these sentences are on HSK 4 & 5. If you are using vocabulary v3.0 these sentences are on HSK 2 to 5. Anyway, remember that you can find these sentences from any Chinesimple app through the dictionary, these sentences will be available as examples of many words.
• At last! Dark Mode is here to let you keep learning during the night. Well, you can also use it during the day, that's up to you.
• Now you can view your list of Flashcards differently: much smaller cards that will allow you to check which cards are still locked much faster. Use the top icon to switch between the two display modes.
• A feature that was already available in the dictionary but not for the sentence list: now you can copy to clipboard the sentence hanzi, pinyin & meaning. Just tap over it.
• Many small improvements: added some audios that were missing, now the dictionary grid shows the tone by color, performance improvements in the lists, improved some translations, and many more things that we are not going to put here so as not to bore you...
9.1.0
2022-01-26
• HSK 3 new vocabulary v3.0 (words, audio files and Flashcards) is now available on HSK 3 app!
• Last step with the new HSK v3.0 (2021) vocabulary translation: HSK 6 v3.0 words are now available into the Dictionary in all languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
• We have recorded again all the HSK 5 vocabulary v2.0 words. Enjoy the improved recordings!
• Added some missing HSK 5 v2.0 Flashcards. Improved some HSK 2 vocabulary v3.0 Flashcards. Improved some HSK 3 vocabulary v2.0 Flashcards.
• HSK 3 v2.0 vocabulary German improvements, thank you Susanne!