3.2.4
2023-07-17
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
2023-06-05
• 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
2023-04-23
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
2023-04-07
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
2023-03-14
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
2023-02-15
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
2023-01-19
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
2023-01-05
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
2022-12-27
Fixes & Updates:
• Casual Conversation
• HSK4
• Food & Drink
• Everyday Items
2.2
2022-12-13
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
2022-12-07
• 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
2022-11-25
• New Topic! Earth & Sky: over 250 words about the earth and its terrain.
• Updates and fixes to many other topics
2.0.2
2022-11-08
• 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
2022-10-27
Minor fixes and updates to Location & Direction, House & Home, City & Town.
2.0
2022-10-24
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
2022-10-08
• Lots of updates & additions to Weather & Seasons.
• Also minor changes to a few other topics.
1.6.5
2022-10-01
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
1.6.4
2022-08-31
• Minor updates and fixes to several free and paid topics
1.6.3
2022-06-29
Fixes/updates to HSK 2, Food, Casual Conversation, Computers & Networks.
1.6.2
2022-06-19
• Fixes & updates to HSK 4, Food, Cooking & Eating, Casual Conversation, Time & Date, and others.
• Some tweaks to the color scheme
1.6.1
2022-05-23
Minor topic updates: Tone Twisters, Dopplegängers, Everyday Items, Cooking & Eating, Clothing, and HSK5.
1.6
2022-05-08
New free topic list: Doppelgängers! Practice recognizing characters that look nearly the same or very similar.
1.5.1
2022-04-29
Minor updates to several topic lists.
1.5
2022-04-17
New *free* topic deck: Tone Twisters.
This new set is unique, it's a set of groups of word with the same syllable sounds but different tones, and completely different meanings! This is great for practicing tones, and also really illustrates how tones matter, just one slight change and the whole meaning is different.
1.4
2022-04-04
• Introducing an All New Topic: Everyday Items (320+ words)
• Updates to Casual Conversation and Location & Direction