Scripts: Learn Chinese writing

For anyone who is interested in learning to read and write Chinese, Script is where to start, absolutely. Everything is right about this app: the interface, the design, the format, the voices and even the reminders. I find Script an excellent companion to Drops (for which I have taken a paid subscription). In the early stages of my learning Chinese, I really appreciate the opportunity to go back to the radicals and focus on them alone on a daily basis. I find that working this way provides welcome extra support to my ability to memorise and seems to bring on reading fluency quicker. Very happy with the limited time format for each session. It’s much easier to stay motivated this way. For those who feel like they can / would like to spend more time, it’s only fair that they should take a subscription. This is a great app, with a lot of hard work and commitment behind it. (Note: complaining that everything is not free is a demented way to look at the world.) The app beats pen and paper for convenience and guarantees daily practice, which is the only thing that will bring success in language learning. Although I now enjoy using pen and paper to work on my Chinese characters, I don’t always have the time. In any case, I would never have gained the confidence to do so without the opportunity to practice first with Script. A massive thank you to the developers and illustrators for their amazing work. Your family of apps is making an invaluable contribution to language learning –I say that as a long time avid language learner who has tried every system out there 😁

Just like pen and paper to remember the Hanzi Give it a go.

Fun and easy to use.

Well so I just downloaded this app hoping to learn some simple ASL, and I was excited to try it. So first things first the app wanted me to make an account, so I selected “login with the email” and entered my name, email, and password. It just said “incorrect username or password” even though I was trying to CREATE AN ACCOUNT. I tried adding a number to my password and it still didn’t work. Eventually I had to just create my account thorough google. Once I made my account I selected ASL, but it said that my learning time was up. I HADNT EVEN PLAYED YET. I gave the app 3 stars because I play drops and enjoy that, and I’m sure once I get more time it will be a good app.

I love the way it teaches you! It has pictures behind the symbols making it easy to remember each symbol

The Japanese kanji have a number of errors, such as wrong stroke orders and completely missing strokes. While tracing the cursive forms of letters in Cyrillic and English it is constantly giving errors and making it extremely frustrating to use. Especially on forms that go back on themselves before progressing to the next part of the letter. Why would I be erasing the letter while practicing writing the stroke?

I’m trying to learn Japanese and this helps my writing sooooooooooooooooo much but there’s barely any time for me to do anything I do 5 characters and then times up! PLEASE GIVE MORE TIME

Learning Russian Cyrillic. The fields of teaching and linguistics have already established the most effective ways to teach phonics and alphabet systems, but the developers of this app don’t know that. The most important thing to drill is the sound of the letter first, then next most important is the name. It would be far more helpful if the fricatives would have the audio of the phoneme (ex. In English, “mmm” instead of “em”/letter name of M) rather than the name of the letter. Later on, this sets up students for success by readying them to blend sounds when reading first words. The use of anchor words is not important, and in fact, it’s a distracting and adds visual clutter. It’s a nice gesture to want to encourage by saying we’ve learned 1 anchor word per letter by this is simply not the case: these words are have no audio recording and they’re not translated so they’re completely meaningless. I will need to finish learning the alphabet elsewhere. Unfortunately, this app is pretty but it simply didn’t teach me what I needed.

Very helpful

I heard a classmate in my beginning Chinese course recommend this for learning the characters, but I have to say that for all that the animations are pretty I’m rather disappointed by this app. There are no explanations of what the characters you learn are commonly used for other than one word beneath the character (which often isn’t even the most used definition of that character, like “shield” for 干), some of the characters you learn are simply bizarrely obscure, and finally the amount of characters there are to learn is very lacking. All in all, I’d say that downloading this app for Hanzi is a waste of time.