Trey Pubins
GBSimple 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.
skybright
GBThis is a very fast and effective way… This is a very fast and effective way to learn basic characters. The review process is what makes it so effective as well as the mnemonic selection of characters.
Richie Strutz
SGUsing this with my friends in Singapore… Using this with my friends in Singapore to develop the Chinese language..
keith turnas
GBI love this app I love this app! The spaced review makes learning fun and easy! I highly recommend this app to learn Chinese characters.
Chris
GBPretty 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.