Better Youth Chinese 1 Vol.1 vs Chinese LS Touch Usage & Stats
Better YCT is a collection of apps to learn Chinese Mandarin for toddlers and children from 4 to 14 years old. Our learning activities are designed to engage and entertain either in the classroom or at home. This app includes short stories, songs and funny games.
Educational background
Better YCT methodology is born from the experience of a large group of elementary and primary school teachers based outside of China with a long experience in teaching Chinese to children in schools. Our apps are full of learning and classroom activities.
Discover, Write and Play
Unlike other apps, words, expressions and phrases are presented in a context relevant to the child, ensuring his attention is kept and emphasizing listening over reading/writing activities in the first levels. Every song, story, or game is key in the language acquisition process and contains consistent vocabulary with the child level.
Young Chinese Learners Tests (YCT Tests)
Our course follows the official YCT language certification curriculum. These exams are done in multiple locations across the world by the Confucius Institute.
There will be 16 apps in total, 4 for each YCT level:
- YCT 0 for 4-5 year olds
- YCT 1 (80 words)
- YCT 2 (150 words)
- YCT 3 (300 words)
After completing each set of 4 apps your little child will be ready to pass the corresponding YCT Level exam.
This app corresponds to YCT level 1, Volume 1.
WARNING: Some activities require installing the Chinese handwriting keyboard on the iPad. To install it, Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Keyboards -> Add New Keyboard -> Chinese Simplified Handwriting.
When on the activity that requires direct text input, the iPad virtual keyboard will be displayed and you will have to select the Chinese keyboard. To do it, tap on the button with a world globe to the left of the space bar. You will have to tap several times until the desired keyboard is displayed.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Education
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Chinese LS Touch is an App for learning chinese vocables. It combines a comprehensive chinese dictionary with a topnotch vocable trainer. The vocable trainer utilizes the unique touch interface to intuitively teach you how to draw the chinese characters by displaying strokeorder guidelines. But these are just sone of the many features helping you in learning chinese vocables.
FEATURES
- over 100.000 chinese vocables
- all vocables have Traditional & Simplified forms, Pīn Yīn & Zhu Yin readings and english translations
- many words have also german & french translation
- possibility to import your own translations for the vocables
- 7 default vocabulary sets (HSK 1 - 6 and all in one set)
- Voice Output (5000 most popular words by native speaker recordings, rest via TTS)
- possibility to create custom vocabulary sets within the program
- possibility to import your own custom vocabulary sets (of vocables in the programs database)
- Strokeorder guidelines for almost all chinese characters used in the dictionary (about 12.000)
- numerous ways to select the vocables you want to train:
- All vocables of the current set
- custom selection (vocables selected via browser)
- Range of vocables (e.g. vocable 40 till vocable 60)
TEST
- 6 Testtypes:
- Vocable --> Meaning
- Meaning --> Vocable
- Vocable --> Reading
- Reading --> Vocable
- Word --> missing Character
- Audio --> Meaning
- 2 Testmodes:
- Direct Input (drawing or keyboard)
- Multiple Choice
DICTIONARY
- list of all vocables in the current vocabulary set or all vocables of the program‘s database
- search for a specific vocably by translation, reading or the chinese word itself
- display details of a specific vocable
- select specific vocables for a custom selection you want to train
MISC
- Import your own custom vocabulary set (e.g. if you want to train only the vocables of lesson x of your textbook)
- Import your own translations for the vocables (e.g. if you learn by certain translation that differs from the default translation in the program or if the translation for your language is missing)
- Backup & Sync between devices via iCloud
- Learning with the Leitner system (SRS)
- Practice mode (for learning how to draw the chinese words/characters)
- User Interface fully localized in English, French and German
for more information/videos/screenshots/handbook:
www.asia-ls.com/ios/chinese.html
If you find a bug in the software please send me an email [jan(a)asia-ls.com] with as many information as possible so I can try to reproduce and fix it:
- device & firmware
- what did you do step by step
- settings (current set, test mode, Leitner actice...)
- does it happen always/sometime/once
This app uses the CC-CEDICT (www.mdbg.net/), HanDeDict File (www.chdw.de) and CFDICT (www.chine-informations.com/chinois/open/CFDICT/) dictionary files and Icons form icon8 (https://icons8.com/license/)
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Education
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Better Youth Chinese 1 Vol.1 VS. 
Chinese LS TouchDecember 17, 2024