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Learn your ideograms with iChinese

by Erica Sadun Feb 28th 2008 at 2:00PM

Matthias Huber wrote in to tell us about his new iChinese system that helps you learn your characters. iChinese uses the iPhone's touch-based interface to teach users how to write the characters on-screen.

It's available by adding the http://ichinese.de/repo repository to Installer.app. I don't speak Chinese. I don't write chinese (although I'm very fond of chinese food). I wouldn't know an ideogram if I tripped on one, so if you give this a try and have an informed view on how useful it is, let us know in the comments.

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CL

I like how everyone started commenting in chinese all of a sudden, you guys cracked me up lol

February 28 2008 at 10:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jbrown510

这个顶呱呱

I have noticed the Japanese and Koren flashcards in installer with jealousy for so long. I was hoping for Chinese flashcards on the iPhone for SOOoooo long but this is even better. I didn't think this was even possible.

谢谢!

February 28 2008 at 9:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
barry

Very cool, does any body have this kind of thing for Japanese Kanji?

February 28 2008 at 6:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Josh*

There are iStudy's hiragana and katakana flashcard apps, but that's about it...

February 28 2008 at 9:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
spriter

Perfect! Along with NativeCn (Chinese input in all apps) my iPhone is now a great tool for improving my Chinese.

Huber先生是很巧妙！ 谢谢您。我爱我的iPhone。

February 28 2008 at 4:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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me

I'd recommend iCosta over NativeCN. Installer repository is at http://iphone.freecoder.org/rep

February 28 2008 at 4:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KenC

iPhone 很 好！

February 28 2008 at 3:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Usually Named

Commie Chinese! Someone bring back traditional characters....

February 28 2008 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
中文最牛B!

我很好，你母卡好～

February 28 2008 at 2:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh

Here's hoping that people like this will be able to go "legit" once the SDK comes out.

And while I'm hoping, here's hoping the SDK actually comes out in full form next Thursday.

February 28 2008 at 2:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Josh

Actually, while I'm in the hoping business, I hope I can scrounge up enough funds to get myself an iPod touch...

February 28 2008 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
McFonusr

It's awesome someone was able to do this with Chinese. I wonder if anyone would think to do this with Arabic?

February 28 2008 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh

我爸爸很好。你家人呢？

February 28 2008 at 2:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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