Simple but Effective Of the different websites and softwares I have come across to help me better understand the characters, Pandanese is far away the best with consistency in writing and speaking. The flash card model only takes up 5-10 minutes of your time during any one sitting. Review happens over an increasingly longer period to help refresh your mind even months down the line. What I would say makes this product great is the support team. They scheduled a one-on-one demo to show me features of the site and clarified any questions I had about what to expect from the product as I continue to use it. They have even been helpful when I use other software that is teaching me skills of reading and dialogue. The support team wants to see success from their clients and will go that extra mile even when they don’t see the direct benefit. That is a company that is doing business right. In the future, I hope to see more support for traditional Mandarin and not just simplified, but it still serves its purpose effectively.

I tried the first lesson I tried the first lesson, and found that it works! I really learned how to read the Chinese characters! This method of teaching/learning is affective and fun.

Learning tool Have been on Pandanese for about 6 months and have learned thousands of new words. Due to its repetition system, it helps to remember the words. I would recomend Pandanese to everyone who wants to learn Chinese.

Pretty good with lots of potential I have been using Pandanese for 9 days now and so far I really enjoy the program. It’s the closest thing to a Chinese version of WaniKani although it is definitely at an earlier stage of development. I like the use of colors to designate the vocab, radicals, and characters as well as the spacing and ease to just use numbers for the tones instead of trying to fumble with accent marks. Some suggestions that I would think would make it better are: -Possibly color coding (preferably) OR creating mnemonics for the tones since they are a super important part of the language and does need to be memorized. -The quality of the pronunciation voice does the job but can definitely be improved. -Some of the mnemonics don’t make the most sense and some of them don’t even have the word included in some way. Maybe create a 5-10 word title mnemonic that’s easy to stick and then have a few sentences to aid/supplement that main sentence. -Having a separate traditional Characters version would be cool but I would focus on getting the simplified version down before beginning that. Overall I liked it so far and do plan on continuing to use and upgrade, hopefully see it improve and grow as I work though it.

I wish i started learning chinese with… I wish i started learning chinese with this. Very modern point of view on 'learning chinese'. This method is clever and super efficient. For beginners with 3-5 new cards per day or intermediate with up to 12 new cards per day. Everybody will be nicely challenged from day one.