10.4.0
December 2024 Update 🌟
• New HSK 6 Lessons 📖: Advanced Usage of 即使 [jíshǐ] and 即便 [jíbiàn], The Role of 果断 [guǒduàn] in Expressing Decisiveness.
• Audio Speed Settings 🎧: You can now adjust the speed of audio playback for words, sentences, and stories!
• Stroke Animation Speed ✍️: Customize the speed of stroke order animations with five modes.
• New Classifier Sentences 📖: We've added 71 new example sentences for classifier words, complete with fresh native audios!
10.3.3
November Update 🍂 – Get ready to dive deeper into HSK 2 with our latest lessons!
🌟 The Degree Particle 得 [de]: Learn how to express degrees and qualities with this essential particle.
🌟 The Prepositions: Master Chinese prepositions to enhance your sentence structure and clarity.
9.9.3
• New lessons! We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "What are Chinese Radical?" and "What are the most common Chinese Radicals?".
• Added some minor app and content improvements.
9.9.2
• Fixed error playing the sentence "既然来了,就多待一会吧" on the Fill the Gap game.
• Improved 语, 語, 烧, and 燒 stroke order animations.
• Translation improvements: improved some French translations. Thank you, Éric.
• Translation improvements: improved some Russian words translation. Thank you, Liubov.
• Pronunciation improvements on HSK 5. Thank you very much, Serene.
9.9.1
• We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters" and "The Reason for Simplified Characters".
• We have improved the Dictionary Stroke search. Now it should be more precise and return more probably results on first positions.
9.9.0
• We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters" and "The Reason for Simplified Characters".
• We have improve the Dictionary Stroke search. Now it should be more precise and return more probably results on first positions.
9.8.1
• New! Dictionary Stroke search! Now you can perform searches within the dictionary by handwriting the strokes.
• New! Dictionary improved search! Now the dictionary allows you to use upper or lower case, and it does not condition the result. Additionally, search results are now displayed in ascending pinyin order.
• We fixed the bug in the "Progress" section for tone progress calculation.
9.7.1
• It was improved how the Flashcard list loads. Quicker and using fewer resources.
• Fix a bug on Certificate generation on some locale date configurations.
• Improved 觉, 邊, 炼, 們, and 灾 stroke animations.
• Many minor corrections to HSK 5 lessons.
9.7.0
• We have added 103 new sentences to continue offering you more and more examples of each word.
• Fixed a problem when opening the screen with the example sentences of a word that shares the same hanzi with another word.
• Fixed 灾, 瓶, and 萬 stroke animation order.
• Improved 不大 Flashcard image.
• We have updated our Terms of Use & Privacy.
9.6.3
• Three new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to the origin of Chinese writing", "Characters from the Chinese alphabet", and "The shape of Chinese characters".
• Fixed 填 and 慎 stroke animations.
9.6.0
Feb 27, 2023
• HSK 5 v3.0 vocabulary is available! 1071 new words, native audio, flashcards, and stroke animations are now playable on HSK 5 app. Enjoy this content for free!
• Some new v2.0 flashcards are available! We have improved and updated almost 100 HSK v2.0 flashcards. Time to enjoy!
• Improved dictionary search.
9.5.0
Jan 25, 2023
We have created four new lessons for HSK 1 level to extend the study of 拼音 [pīnyīn]:
• "What is 拼音 [pīnyīn]?"
• "How to pronounce 拼音 [pīnyīn] (1) and (2)"
• "拼音 [pīnyīn]: Special uses"
9.4.1
Jan 4, 2023
• Improvements for the "Multi option" game: now the possible answers never include Chinese characters to avoid giving clues. In addition, we have improved the algorithm so that there cannot be two answers with the same hanzi.
• A lot of improvements to the Italian translation of the lessons and sentences for HSK 3. Thank you, Kevin, for your help.
• The stroke order for these words has been fixed: 放心, 潮湿, 冷淡, and 难怪.
9.4.0
Dec 5, 2022
• "My Certificate" in "My HSK Course": Suppose you have completed most of the Chinesimple HSK course tasks.
• "The HSK" page information in "My HSK Course".
• Do you want to know us better? We have redesigned the "About us" section with a short biography of each team member.
• Users on Android 13 have to grant permissions for app notifications, so these users will see a new information screen informing why Chinesimple's notifications are so useful.
9.3.3
Nov 3, 2022
• Chinesimple coupon codes: if you have a promotional coupon code, you can apply it on the subscription plans screen.
• "Board game" now plays the word audio when a pair is completed.
• Improved tutorial & loading layout.
• Fixed Dictionary search for tag HSK7-8-9.
• Correction on HSK 3 & 4 sentence "你的普通话说的很标准": 的 has been replaced with 得.
• We have applied some translation improvements to all the available languages. Italian translation improvements by Kevin, 谢谢!
9.3.2
Oct 4, 2022
• Fixed the stroke order of these hanzi: 植, 旅游, 老, 學.
• Recorded new native audio for sentence "你能帮个忙吗?".
• Improved more HSK 4 sentences pronunciation recognition results for the "Pronunciation" game, 谢谢 Serene!
• Italian translation improvements, thank you Kevin!
• Minor corrections on some HSK1, HSK4, and HSK5 lessons correctio
9.3.1
Aug 18, 2022
We have been improving many app interfaces to better adapt to large screens, tablets, and especially to use in landscape mode. Soon we will adapt stroke games to landscape. mode.
9.3.0
Aug 8, 2022
• New! Play button in the dictionary word detail screen to play stroke animation as many times as you want.
• New! Many "Hanzi writing" game stroke detection improvements, one of them is that it now detects the wrong direction of the stroke.
• New! If you fail a stroke in "Hanzi writing" a message will tell you why the stroke is invalid.
• Now you can open the current sentence of a game in the dictionary to know the meaning of each word.
• Many fixes & improvements (check app what's new).
9.2.8
Jun 21, 2022
- Now you can report any app/content error.
- Now Flashcard list show multiple meanings.
- Fixed "Sentences" menu topics translation problem.
- "Stroke Count" game screen improvements for tiny screens.
- Added pinyin to the top of the screen "Pronunciation" game.
- Improved 多少 small Flashcard on HSK1. 大都 pinyin changed to [dàdōu] on HSK5.
- A new audio has been recorded for the sentence "请帮我翻译一下这句话可以吗?".
- Improved "Pronunciation" voice recognition result for HSK1 sentence "我要这间".
9.2.7
May 30, 2022
• Fewer ads, better app experience: Removed the bottom banner ad from games! This will improve user experience on games, especially if you are using a small screen device.
• Fixed a rare issue unlocking some game achievements after 100% progress has been reached.
• Fixed stroke order for 房.
• Fix for the Pronunciation game for HSK1 sentence 票再贵我也要去.
• Some German sentences translation improvements, thank you for the reports Sören.
• Some French translation improvements.
9.2.6
March 31, 2022
• Improved HSK1 sentence voice recognition for the Pronunciation game.
• Fixed stroke order for 年 hanzi.
• Some French translation improvements, thank you for the reports!
9.2.5
February 23, 2022
• We've added 100 new example sentences for you! For the HSK vocabulary v2.0, these sentences are on HSK 4 & 5. If you are using vocabulary v3.0 these sentences are on HSK 2 to 5.
• Improved stroke writing animation for 九, 方 and 五.
• Fixed the "Learned words" crash on Android 12.
• Many minor improvements: some other fixes to "Learned words", improved some French translations (Thank you Dorian!), and many more things that we are not going to put here so as not to bore you...
9.2.0
January 13, 2022
• New! HSK 3 vocabulary v3.0 audios, flashcards, and stroke animations are now available on HSK 3 app!
• New! We have recorded again all the HSK 5 vocabulary v2.0 words. Enjoy the improved recordings!
• New! The stroke animations for HSK 5 vocabulary v2.0 words are now available, so you can now enjoy the new stroke games on HSK 5.
9.1.0
December 9, 2021
• New! The new "Hanzi Writing" game is available!
• New! Real writing stroke animations.
• New! "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations.
• New! Last step with the new HSK6 v3.0 (2021) vocabulary translation.
• New! The new plans to be PRO are available: the monthly subscription and the annual subscription.
9.0.7
October 8, 2021
• One more step with the new HSK v3.0 (2021) vocabulary: HSK 4 v3.0 and HSK 5 v3.0 words are now available in all languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
• HSK 1 and 2 German translation improvements, thank you Susanne!
• HSK 5 stroke count fixes.
• Picturecards have been renamed Flashcards.
• Many improvements to the Flashcard list.
• Some improvements to Progress: now you can check your Flashcard progress.