Tag: Mandarin - Latest Releases

Sep 12, 2012 - Announcing that Kaeru-Life has released the first version of a educational app. With this app, children learn the Chinese for numbers one to ten, twelve basic colors, animals, cars, and 66 other everyday items. The app teaches vocabularies via large Chinese characters and Pinyin with crystal-clear Chinese audio that plays when the number or color is tapped. Each number and color page corresponds with three items. Upon tapping on an item a large photograph appears and an audio recording plays.

May 08, 2012 - Beijing based independent development team Zachary Wang and Zuo Peng introduced Small Talk Chinese for the iPad. Small Talk Chinese teaches Chinese through punchy English dialogues adapted from movies, television, and other media outlets, which are then crowd-sourced for translation into Chinese. The dialogues, which feature popup word definitions and Chinese audio from native speakers, are organized around fun topics like dating, fashion, and the office place.

May 03, 2012 - Put Chinese culture and language at your child's fingertips with "Bella's Chinese New Year," an eBook app for iPhone and iPad released on April 23 in the Apple App Store. Adapted from the much-loved hardcover version released in May 2011, "Bella's Chinese New Year" is a joyful story about a five-year-old American girl named Bella, who lives in Singapore, and is celebrating the New Year at her school. With her infectious smile and zest for life, Bella connects with the culture around her.

Apr 30, 2012 - Beijing based independent development team Zachary Wang and Zuo Peng introduced Small Talk Chinese for the iPad. Small Talk Chinese teaches Chinese through punchy English dialogues adapted from movies, television, and other media outlets, which are then crowd-sourced for translation into Chinese. The dialogues, which feature popup word definitions and Chinese audio from native speakers, are organized around fun topics like dating, fashion, and the office place.

Apr 25, 2012 - Put Chinese culture and language at your child's fingertips with "Bella's Chinese New Year," an eBook app for iPhone and iPad released on April 23 in the Apple App Store. Adapted from the much-loved hardcover version released in May 2011, "Bella's Chinese New Year" is a joyful story about a five-year-old American girl named Bella, who lives in Singapore, and is celebrating the New Year at her school. With her infectious smile and zest for life, Bella connects with the culture around her.

Apr 24, 2012 - Franck Koestel and Cristina Santamaria propose that making 10 minutes count is all it takes to have fun while inspiring kids to become multilingual. Princesses Learn Chinese 1.2, an application that allows children to use the technology of an iPad or iPhone to engage in early language learning that is not just educational, but loads of fun as well. A new book has been released within the app, Little Mermaid. It exposes to Mandarin words and expressions through stories, games, songs & flashcards.

Sep 24, 2011 - Elena Koestel is not your ordinary six-year old. She is trilingual, fluent in English, Spanish, and French and has recently taken on Mandarin Chinese. Elena and her brother Pablo are the inspiration for developing an app for iPhone and iPad called "Princesses Learn Chinese" which teaches Mandarin Chinese through stories, games and songs. The family proposes that making 10 minutes count is all it takes to have fun together while inspiring their kids to become multilingual.

Sep 16, 2011 - Elena Koestel is not your ordinary six-year old. She is trilingual, fluent in English, Spanish, and French and has recently taken on Mandarin Chinese. Elena and her brother Pablo are the inspiration for developing an app for iPhone and iPad called "Princesses Learn Chinese" which teaches Mandarin Chinese through stories, games and songs. The family proposes that making 10 minutes count is all it takes to have fun together while inspiring their kids to become multilingual.

Aug 30, 2011 - JAM Language Ltd. has introduced 99.Mandarin.verbs 1.1 and 99.Cantonese.verbs 1.0, their first Mandarin and Cantonese iOS applications. They collaborated with Lux HQ Ltd. whose headquartered in London, UK, to create the iPhone and iPad application for both flashcards. This is a follow-up to their initial collaboration and launch of 99.Spanish.verbs earlier this summer. It takes the user back to the basics with simple to use and relevant essential verb information.