trainchinese will teach you Chinese, with a free and complete dictionary, thousands of vocab lists, example sentences, audio recordings, measure words and character animations – and a powerful flash card system featuring handwriting training. Join thousands of others who've learned Chinese with trainchinese!
★ We're using our very own dictionary, made by bilingual experts in Beijing. It's got 130,000 words and search algorithms that prioritise words that you'll actually want to learn! For example, try searching for "tree" in your existing Chinese dictionary. More than likely you'll see 木 – a character, and not really a vocab word! Search with trainchinese and you'll get 树 ("tree") first and 一棵树 ("a tree") second – now that's useful!
★ Dictionary results include measure words, examples, character animations and even full decompositions so you can see what goes into every character.
★ Partial searches start returning results as soon as you begin typing. If you make a spelling mistake, you'll get suggestions for words you might have meant.
★ Get measure words for thousands of nouns. Tap measure words for full details and access to related searches.
★ trainchinese is great for study, because our words are organised into more than 1,500 word lists covering topics from International Relations to American Football Teams and more. Students of HSK, TOCFL and YCT will feel right at home. Something's missing? We often add new vocabulary lists on request so that everybody can benefit.
★ Whether you're studying the Simplified (mainland China and Singapore) or Traditional (Hong Kong and Taiwan) variants, we've got you covered! Easily switch between them or choose to display both in dictionary results and on flash cards.
★ Create flash cards with audio and animation from dictionary entries. Organise them into lists, and share them with friends (or students).
★ The Spaced Repetition system ensures you'll memorize those words for good.
★ Train however you want: each card is available in four different modes to test different aspects of Chinese study. See Chinese, Pinyin or English and get tested on translation, and even compare your handwriting to a stroke-order animation side-by-side, synchronized!
★ Flash cards are saved on your device and synchronized with trainchinese.com, where you can also train with them and find more great content.
★ Add study notes to your flash cards - they're saved and backed up at trainchinese.com.
Includes fixes for AI assistant questions and some missing translated text during training. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update includes minor fixes. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update helps you to find words you had earlier looked up by showing them along with queries in the search history.
This update adds PDF practice sheets and makes it easier to access character animations. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update adds PDF practice sheets and makes it easier to access character animations. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update includes future-proofing for the trainchinese Assistant functionality. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update adds the ability to toggle which lists are used for training flash cards in the Start Training menu. Thanks for learning with trainchinese!
This update includes some minor fixes. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update adds support for other languages, and fixes bugs in multiple choice training and searching for erhua words (nar, dianr etc.), among others. Also new: you can configure dark mode to always be on, or never. And Chinese text is larger in flash card training! Thanks to all those who've contributed their suggestions.
We've completely refreshed trainchinese—you'll see smarter searches, automatic syncing, AI features and dark mode support. Thanks for using trainchinese! Note: the 6.1.6 release adds support for flash cards for vocab added by user request that haven't yet made it into the app's local dictionary.
This update includes bug fixes for trainchinese. Thanks for using the app!
This update updates the visual appearance of app screens in conformance with newer Android themes.
This update fixes a crash seen when opening a couple of words. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update improves multitasking behaviour. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update adds support for features in the upcoming release of Chinese Challenges, a new app from trainchinese. Thanks for using trainchinese!
This update adds back the "selection details" popup, which is especially handy when you are using both Simplified and Traditional characters for learning and would like to see alternative animations! Just highlight characters and choose "Selection details" from the popup menu.
Introducing popular vocabulary lists: an easy way to explore our amazing content right at the top of the dictionary screen. This update also fixes audio issues users have been experiencing with Android P — we're sorry about that!
Full details for Chinese characters are now displayed as a tab on the details screen, and now include character decompositions so you can discover which components go into each character. Selected characters are explained with YouTube video links. You can also now swipe between detail screens, which is great for browsing long vocabulary lists!
Flash cards for training now update faster and take up less space on your device once fully learned.
Fixes an issue where new accounts couldn't add flash cards. We're pretty embarrassed about that one – apologies!
Stability improvements!
Stability improvements!
• Improved fonts for display of Pinyin• Dictionary is now at 107,000 words!
Fix for a rare crashing issue on the "My account" screen.
