The first block on the learning path is labeled “Alphabet,” and you can skip it if you would like, though of course I went in for the sake of this review! TheĮxplanation of Pinyin and the sounds that Chinese uses is VERY thorough, with a ton of great audio files You can choose to have LingoDeer display the traditional set of characters if you go into your settings! You can’t change this during learning levels, so if traditional is your preference, make sure to set it before you start a learning level! However, during learning levels you can choose if you want to see just the Hanzi (Chinese characters), just Pinyin, or both together. Since all of the Hanja Korean uses are traditional, I just stuck with traditional when I started learning Mandarin. It’s a preference of mine that hung over from studying Hanja in Korean. In case you aren’t aware, I study Mandarin using traditional characters. The slow loading that used to plague me back when I wrote the Korean review is no longer a problem :) The loading screens I do see are processed very quickly! I already mentioned this in my previous two reviews, but LingoDeer app’s design and interface is very clean and visually appealing. In this review, I will of course focus on the Chinese course! LingoDeer is a language-learning app for the three major east Asian languages, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese. (Apologies if some parts sound like copypasta from my previous reviews!) What is LingoDeer? I think that’s sufficient just to judge the starting levels, yes?). I’m going to handle this review just as I did my LingoDeer Korean and LingoDeer Japanese reviews, by talking about things I noticed as I went through the first few levels of the course (you can see below I did 8% of the course to write this review. Finally got around to testing out LingoDeer’s Chinese course! This will be my last LingoDeer review.

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