Learn Chinese (Mandarin) by MindSnacks App Reviews

I did not think it was possible to learn a language so quckely and with so much fun. This app is just amazing, the games are as good as ruzzle, i would play them just for fun. Get it now!!!!

Real fun!

Learn Chinese having fun with mind snacks!

Nice app but with the latest update keeps blocking and crashing, fix pls for 5 stars

Good to start with the study of the language while playing a game!

Fun games and good motivation to keep going if you want to unlock more games. Overall, a very good app to learn a language. However, one thing is very annoying: "tā" means he, she, or it. In some games itll say "tā" and "he" and "she" will both be options. You choose "he" and its wrong. The next word is "tā" again. You choose "he" and this time its right. The programmers need to fix this.

every time I try to make an account, because you have to to actually use the app, it tells me it "failed." I put in my name, email, & password, and even tried using the sign up with Facebook option, but every time it doesnt work. I just wanna learn mandarin, let me thnx

Incredibly well done and innovative mini-games. Great graphics and sounds. Would recommend for beginners and those looking to brush up on their Mandarin. You can focus on pinyin and Chinese characters.

It wont let m even make an account.

I really enjoy the concept of MindSnack. The only downside that I have found to the Chinese app is that it only has simplified characters, which causes someone like me who learned the traditional characters to have to default to pin yin. Essentially having to default to the pin yin for me makes the app lose its effectiveness because I am already pretty fluent. However, it is fun to still learn new words that I have never used in context.

I often find myself wanting to play just one more round.

I love this app. I quickly downloaded it, was challenged by the first lesson, and was excited to buy the other lessons. $4.99 for **49** additional lessons and ability to continue the leveling up is quite worth it. Im only on level 8 but Im already obsessed and it makes learning very fun. The only problem I have with this app is that I wished that there was a lesson that taught is RADICALS. Radicals are so important and it wouldve been nice to been enforced to learn them. Also, even though Im only on level 8, I hope/wish for a game that has us actually writing the Chinese characters.

One of the best language apps Ive ever used. And no, they didnt have to pay me to say this. Ive used Rosetta Stone and this is just as good (if not better) for 1% of the price. Definitely worth it. Its very helpful for learning to read. The only improvements I would like to see are more grammar lessons and maybe a writing (not reading) game? I also liked the cultural vocab words/phrases in this app! Things like holidays, food, expressions... Very useful. I like the game structure, its great motivation and keeps the learning fun. A good idea for parents trying to get kids to learn? Overall fantastic app.

Ive completed 25 of the lessons on this app and its been fun. The game introduces you to a lot of vocabulary, however, it only tests your Chinese to English skills. It never makes you to translate English words to Chinese. Theres also not a good system to gauge how well you know the words. By just grinding through a few rounds of the games youll have "mastered" a set of vocabulary according to the app. Unfortunately if youre like me youll forget lots of it. It also really only covers vocabulary -- very little grammar. I would say overall this is useful for getting a decent vocabulary base but youll have to supplement it with something more elaborate.

I love this app but not it will not let me sign in. When I try to sign in the whole app crashes. Please fix and I will give 5 STARS and recommend to others.

So, Ive tried several Chinese language learning apps, and this is definitely one of my favourites. If you only get one Mandarin app, get this one. The value for what you pay is really good, and its very addictive! With that said, there are a few things I think could be improved: - I think the individual lessons are completed too quickly, before actual mastery is obtained. Slowing down advancement through the lessons would aid in retention. - The program has games designed to foster learning in several categories—image recognition, tones, rapid recall, and error recognition. This is great, except that its possible to complete lessons only using one of the categories, instead of requiring the user to achieve mastery in each area before advancing. For instance, you could just play games that help with image recognition and complete a lesson without ever practicing tones, which is critical. - Similar to the above comments, incorporating more automatic/built-in review would help with long term memory storage of learned words and phrases. - Lastly, there should be games dedicated to learning characters and drawing them with the correct stroke order—not just the ability to switch from pinyin to Chinese characters. Its a lot better to learn pinyin and characters together at the same time, rather than just one or the other, and a touchscreen device is ideal for learning to draw characters with the correct stroke order.

This app seems great and an easy way to learn how to read and speak Mandarin. The issue I have is that it has been broken in IOS 8. Scrolling through lessons no longer works properly.

I really love this app its a really easy to learn app now all they need is to make one for Korean

I downloaded this app and it doesnt work. A log-in page shows up but the buttons dont work. Cant get pass the log-in page.

This app would have 5 stars if it would also work on the iPad. On the iPhone it works fine and is great. On the iPad I can only access the login page and none of the buttons work.