• New Lesson in HSK 1 Level: Dive deeper into the exams available on Chinesimple with our latest addition, "Chinesimple-HSK-Exam".
• Exploring Paper Dictionaries in Chinese Learning: We're excited to introduce a series of six new lessons in HSK1 that delve into the intricacies of using a traditional paper dictionary versus the simplicity of Chinesimple.
• Complete Hanzi Stroke Animations for HSK 6 v2.0.
• Fixed a Bug in Custom Lists.
• Additional Enhancements.
• Three new languages alert! Chinesimple apps now embrace Thai, Hindi, and Arabic.
• Right-To-Left (RTL) support in Arabic.
• Expand your linguistic journey with 15 fresh texts distributed across HSK levels 3, 4, and 5.
• Our dictionary just got richer! Beyond the standard HSK levels, we've added an array of words found in our new HSK 3, 4, and 5 texts.
• We're excited to announce the addition of 100 new example sentences to our dictionary.
• Back Button Added for Enhanced Navigation.
• Enhanced 'Write the Story' Game. We've revamped the game to make it more user-friendly, dynamic, and engaging:
- The keyboard now displays only the characters relevant to the current part of the story, not the entire story.
- Pressing 'help' now reveals the pinyin for the current word only, not subsequent ones.
- You can now view the story and keyboard even while the audio is playing.
• Auto-Scroll Feature in Story Mode.
• New Lessons! We're excited to introduce two new captivating lessons in HSK 1: "The use of 什么 [shénme]" and "Use of 老 [lǎo]".
• New! In the 'Hanzi writing' game, you now have the option to disable stroke animations and templates.
• New! Enhanced Manual Light/Dark Mode, select your mode from app settings.
• Re-recording select sentences and words.
• We've enriched your learning journey by adding seven new example sentences.
• We've enhanced the user experience for foldable devices.
• New lesson! Introducing a new lesson in HSK 1: "What is the Mahjong board game?". Dive in to learn about this traditional Chinese game and its cultural significance. We constantly strive to provide valuable content and enhance your learning experience.
• New! Now supporting Portuguese, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages! Please Note: these new languages are generated by AI and might contain errors.
• Great news! We've removed the bottom advertisement banner to enhance your experience.
• New lessons! We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "What are Chinese Radical?" and "What are the most common Chinese Radicals?".
• Added some minor app and content improvements.
• Fixed error playing the sentence "既然来了,就多待一会吧" on the Fill the Gap game.
• Improved 语, 語, 烧, and 燒 stroke order animations.
• Translation improvements: improved some French translations. Thank you, Éric.
• Translation improvements: improved some Russian words translation. Thank you, Liubov.
• Pronunciation improvements on HSK 5. Thank you very much, Serene.
• We've added two new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters" and "The Reason for Simplified Characters".
• We have improve the Dictionary Stroke search. Now it should be more precise and return more probably results on first positions.
• New! Dictionary Stroke search! Now you can perform searches within the dictionary by handwriting the strokes.
• New! Dictionary improved search! Now the dictionary allows you to use upper or lower case, and it does not condition the result. Additionally, search results are now displayed in ascending pinyin order.
• We fixed the bug in the "Progress" section for tone progress calculation.
• It was improved how the Flashcard list loads. Quicker and using fewer resources.
• Fix a bug on Certificate generation on some locale date configurations.
• Improved 觉, 邊, 炼, 們, and 灾 stroke animations.
• Many minor corrections to HSK 5 lessons.
• Three new lessons on HSK 1 level: "Introduction to the origin of Chinese writing", "Characters from the Chinese alphabet", and "The shape of Chinese characters".
• Fixed 填 and 慎 stroke animations.
• HSK 5 v3.0 vocabulary is available! 1071 new words, native audio, flashcards, and stroke animations are now playable on HSK 5 app. Enjoy this content for free!
• Some new v2.0 flashcards are available! We have improved and updated almost 100 HSK v2.0 flashcards. Time to enjoy!
• Improved dictionary search.
• Improvements for the "Multi option" game: now the possible answers never include Chinese characters to avoid giving clues. In addition, we have improved the algorithm so that there cannot be two answers with the same hanzi.
• A lot of improvements to the Italian translation of the lessons and sentences for HSK 3. Thank you, Kevin, for your help.
• The stroke order for these words has been fixed: 放心, 潮湿, 冷淡, and 难怪.
• "My Certificate" in "My HSK Course": Suppose you have completed most of the Chinesimple HSK course tasks.
• "The HSK" page information in "My HSK Course".
• Do you want to know us better? We have redesigned the "About us" section with a short biography of each team member.
• Users on Android 13 have to grant permissions for app notifications, so these users will see a new information screen informing why Chinesimple's notifications are so useful.
We have been improving many app interfaces to better adapt to large screens, tablets, and especially to use in landscape mode. Soon we will adapt stroke games to landscape. mode.
• HSK 4 vocabulary v3.0 is now available! 1000 new words, audios, flashcards, and stroke animations are now available & playable on HSK 4 app. Enjoy this content for free :)
• While working on HSK 4 vocabulary v3.0 we have taken the opportunity to improve and update almost 200 HSK 4 v2.0 flashcards.
• The dictionary now shows the result count on the footer.
• Dictionary search apostrophe problem has been fixed.
• Improved HSK1 sentence voice recognition for the Pronunciation game.
• Fixed stroke order for 年 hanzi.
• Some French translation improvements, thank you for the reports!
• We've added 100 new example sentences for you! For the HSK vocabulary v2.0, these sentences are on HSK 4 & 5. If you are using vocabulary v3.0 these sentences are on HSK 2 to 5.
• Improved stroke writing animation for 九, 方 and 五.
• Fixed the "Learned words" crash on Android 12.
• Many minor improvements: some other fixes to "Learned words", improved some French translations (Thank you Dorian!), and many more things that we are not going to put here so as not to bore you...
• New! HSK 3 vocabulary v3.0 audios, flashcards, and stroke animations are now available on HSK 3 app!
• New! We have recorded again all the HSK 5 vocabulary v2.0 words. Enjoy the improved recordings!
• New! The stroke animations for HSK 5 vocabulary v2.0 words are now available, so you can now enjoy the new stroke games on HSK 5.
• New! The new "Hanzi Writing" game is available!
• New! Real writing stroke animations.
• New! "Stroke Count" game now uses the new hanzi animations.
• New! Last step with the new HSK6 v3.0 (2021) vocabulary translation.
• New! The new plans to be PRO are available: the monthly subscription and the annual subscription.
• One more step with the new HSK v3.0 (2021) vocabulary: HSK 4 v3.0 and HSK 5 v3.0 words are now available in all languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
• HSK 1 and 2 German translation improvements, thank you Susanne!
• HSK 5 stroke count fixes.
• Picturecards have been renamed Flashcards.
• Many improvements to the Flashcard list.
• Some improvements to Progress: now you can check your Flashcard progress.
• The desired Dark Mode is now available! It is needed an Android 10 or higher device to be able to use the Dark Mode. Just switch to Dark Mode on your device settings, the Chinesimple app will automatically switch to Dark Mode.
• Fixed a bug that prevented saving words of a sentence in a word list.
• Some minor corrections to HSK v3.0 content.
• After adding the other language translations for HSK 6 word list, now it is the turn for German and Spanish translations. Write "HSK6:" on the Dictionary search box to check it!
• Fixed 回/迴 problem during Pronunciation game for Taiwanese users using traditional hanzi. Please, check if it is now working OK for you.
• Fixed 午睡 [wǔshuì] tone on HSK 2 v3.0 vocabulary.
• Some typo fixes on two lessons. Thank you very much to all the users that reported these errors!
• New resources for HSK 2 v3.0 course. New stroke animations, new native audios, new Picturecards, and new sentences.
• Improved some Picturecards: we have replaced many HSK 2 v2.0 Picturecards to better understand the word meaning.
• Minor changes on some HSK v3.0 translations.
• Applied many minor app fixes & improvements that we have detected during the last month.
• New native word audio recordings for HSK 4. Now working HSK 5 and 6.
• Fixed starred button behavior into word detail view.
• Fixed missing HSK 1 lesson sentence pinyin "zhè".
• Fixes on some HSK 4 and 5 pinyin tones.
• New native word audio recordings for HSK 1, 2 & 3. We wanted to improve any audio pronunciation issue, so we decided to record again all the words with our native speaker.
• We want to bring you new example sentences from time to time to cover all HSK words with examples, so now you enjoy 114 new sentences for HSK 4.
• Added six new HSK 4 vocabulary topics.
• Added some improvements to the Pronunciation game to make it easy to complete some sentences.
• My words: new feature to save words in custom lists. Tap on the word heart icon and choose the list to save it into.
• Play with your custom lists! Now you can choose the words that you want to use in the games instead of playing with all the words of this level.
• Play with the words you miss regularly! In the same way, you can play games with your common mistakes.
• The heart button into the games is now disabled until the question is finished.
• Minor fixes and improvements to HSK Tests.
• A few content and translation fixes, many thanks to the users who wrote us.
• HSK Tests are ready! A new core app feature, with three different test levels. Try it! We will be happy to receive your feedback.
• German translation change: "ZEW" (Zähleinheitswort) to replace CL: (classifiers).
• Improvements for all translations, thanks to all the users that reported the errors.
• We've fixed some minor bugs.
• French, Italian and Russian translation for HSK 5 lessons.
• German translation for similar/confusing words.
• Dictionary list footer word buttons (HSK level, sentences count, and lessons count) are now clickable.
• Write the Story game will ask for confirmation before close it to avoid losing the progress accidentally.
• Some minor fixes and improvements.
• Study Mode is now available for sentences.
• Starred fix: the starred button is visible again if you open a word from the starred list.
• Complete Russian translation revision for HSK 2 words, thanks to Liudmila.
• Many Italian translation corrections, thanks to Francesco.
• Some minor fixes for the new word detail screen and Android 11.
* New Dictionary: it has been simplified to make it more usable.
* New Word Detail screen: this new screen will give you all the word details.
* Word individual characters.
* Word similar characters.
* Word related lessons.
* Related words.
* Word tags.
* Word sentences.
* Word primary radicals.
* Word detail navigation.
* New settings to set hanzi visible into the Write Pinyin game.
* Complete revision of the sentences traditional hanzi.
* Improvements in Russian translation.
* And much more!
• Italian & Russian translation for HSK 4 lessons.
• Improved HSK 1 Russian words & sentences translations.
• Improved HSK 4 German words & sentences translations.
• Highlighted hanzi for example sentences.
• Speech recognition improvements for Pronunciation game.
• Minor translation improvements for HSK 2.
• Minor lessons typo corrections.
• Storage fix for audio files on Android 10 or higher.
• App tested on Android 11.
- French translation for HSK 4 lessons and German translation for HSK 5 lessons.
- Now the games keep the state if you rotate your device and the screen change from portrait to landscape or vice versa.
- Progress indicator into Home and Games menu buttons.
- Picturecard locked games now offers to open Word games to continue unlocking Picturecards.
- New alert when you complete Stroke Count game to switch simplified or traditional version.
- New buttons on home side menu: 'Show tutorials' to show again all Bingo tutorials and ‘What’s new’ to show the changelog.
- And more!
* Game progress indicator: New indicator in game menu buttons to know the game progress without opening it.
* Lot of improvements: Tutorial style improvements, dictionary traditional hidden if it is equal to simplified, Strokes game hanzi visibility improvement, etc.
* Fixed some bugs.
• Lots of game improvements! Play them and give us your feedback!
• Support for traditional hanzi in Pronunciation game.
• Improved some French translations.
- Improved some sentences voice recognition result, thanks to the users that reported difficult sentences.
- Improved game refresh question button, to skip the current question for a while.
- Small fixes in lessons and stories.
- More Bingo animations into Help screen
- Picturecards: 1305 new HSK 5 Picturecards! That's a lot of cards for playing and learning. Find this new deck on HSK 5 app.
- French, Italian and Russian translation for HSK 3 new lessons.
- Italian translation for HSK 2 new lessons.
German and Russian translation for HSK 2 new lessons.
- New HSK3 36 brand new lessons available in English and Spanish. We are now making the magic to bring them to you soon in French, German, Italian and Russian.
- French translation for HSK 2 new lessons.
- Write the Story quick fixes.
- New! Write the Story game is ready for PRO users. Free users might try the game within upcoming game notifications, stay tuned!
- Fixed minor problems to make the app don't disturb your learning
- HSK 1 lessons are now available in French
- Now the user interface language matches the content language, no matter your device language
- Board game shows again translation after each pairing
- Added 'True or False' game stats to 'Mastery of words'
- Some HSK 5 translations have been improved
- Added some missing audio files
- Fixed minor problems to make the app better
• New HSK 1 lessons! 46 brand new lessons, available in English and Spanish. We are now making the magic to bring you them soon in French, German, Italian and Russian. Coming soon new lessons for the higher HSK levels.
• Updated and improved all tutorial translations for English, Spanish and Italian. Working on French, German and Russian translations.
• Fixed a push notification problem on some devices.
• New! game 'True or false' for sentences. Listen the audio to select true or false
• New! 'Stories'! A list of small texts with audio and other cool features, check it out and give us your opinion!
• New! 'Story games': two new games, 'Listening stories' and 'Order the story', to improve your auditive comprehension.
• New! 'My HSK Course' is a new place to group all the resources and progress of the course.
• New! 'Fill the gap' game is now fully open to all users
• Improved 'Progress' stats
• Fixed pinyin mode for sentences
• Stroke game in landscape mode is now working as expected
• Improved dictionary behavior and performance
• Fixed some other small bugs
- New puzzle button on any sentence detail to open the words into the Dictionary. Non HSK words won't be shown (for now!)
- 74 new HSK 4 sentences. Play and enjoy the new content from HSK 4 "Sentences" and "Sentence Games" sections, but you can also find these example sentences into the Dictionary of any other HSK app. More coming!
- 4 new topics for HSK 4 sentences: home, nature, love and questions
- New! Dictionary improvement: search at the same time more than one HSK word. Try with sentences or word bundles. Only HSK words will be shown (levels 1 to 5) . Also works on YCT apps (YCT levels 1 to 4).
- Fixed WritePinyin ü keyboard key onTouch
- Fixed Sentence Structure game bug when you switch from simplified to traditional
* Improved app buttons response, faster than ever!
* Now you can copy to clipboard everything into Dictionary & Vocabulary
* Dictionary search speed improvement
* Improved sentence visualization into Pronunciation game during voice recognition
* Added translation to MutiCard, PinyinCard & HanziCard games layout
* Added pinyin to HanziCard game layout
* Some minor layout improvements
* Fixes into settings
* Improved app performance
- Improved detail word view in Dictionary
- Improved sentence view
- Search word results from other HSK levels are now audio playable with the new Google Text-To-Speech engine, and it works offline!
- Example sentences from any word level result are now available on all levels, so now you can check over 1,000 example sentences from any Chinesimple app
- StudyMode is now also available on Starred list
- Improved detail word view in Dictionary
- Improved sentence view
- Search word results from other HSK levels are now audio playable with the new Google Text-To-Speech engine, and it works offline!
- Example sentences from any word level result are now available on all levels, so now you can check over 1,000 example sentences from any Chinesimple app
- StudyMode is now also available on Starred list
- Improved detail word view in Dictionary
- Improved sentence view
- Search word results from other HSK levels are now audio playable with the new Google Text-To-Speech engine, and it works offline!
- Example sentences from any word level result are now available on all levels, so now you can check over 1,000 example sentences from any Chinesimple app
- StudyMode is now also available on Starred list
- Now you can check more word example sentences from "Characters Dictionary"
- Dictionary character card bottom buttons are now hidden by default to improve space optimization. Click on the character to expand the card and get all extra actions and data. Remember, you can set all character cards expanded as default from app settings
- Fixed some stroke count errors
- Word highlighted into dictionary example sentences
- Improved app performance
- Improved database performance
- New HSK word progress grid. Check out Progress section second tab and click on any word
- New Game shortcuts with any uncompleted word from the new HSK word progress grid
- Improved dictionary hanzi search
- Improved BoardGame and PairCardGame first loaded words
Improved characters dictionary search with other HSK level results for any hanzi, pinyin, English, French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish search
* 64 new HSK 2 sentences
* Now all HSK 2 words have at least one sentence example
* Improved audio quality for HSK 2 sentences
* Increased audio volume for HSK 2 sentences
- 42 new HSK 2 sentences
- HSK 2 new topic: Home
* Improved Picturecards
* Improved some translations
* Improved Picturecards
* Improved some translations
* Locked Picturecards: game shortcut now opens this locked word into the game
* New adaptative app icons
* Hanzi Card & Sentence structure game fixes
* Pronunciation game now shows sentence in the GoogleVoice dialog
* Reduced the volume of sound effects
- HSK 2 new sentences audios
- Improved randomized questions
- Translation improvements
- Small fixes, bugs and improvements
- New brush style for Stroke game
- Improved answer check for 'Fill the Gap' and 'Sentence Order' game
- Small fixes, bugs and improvements
- 82 new sentences
- New sentence audio recordings with a native speaker
- New Pronunciation game
- New topic menu in vocabulary screen
- Small fixes and improvements
* Dictionary words shortcut for Picturecard
* Custom tone colors are now available into Strokes game
* Fixed bug for traditional words into MultiCard game
* Fixed some progress stats incoherences
* WritePinyin key button animation
* Corrections in stroke count words
* Quick SplashScreen
* Instagram Chinesimple profile shortcut
* Performance improvements
* Custom tone colors are now available into Strokes game
* Fixed bug for traditional words into MultiCard game
* Fixed some progress stats incoherences
* WritePinyin key button animation
* Quick SplashScreen
* Performance improvements
* New Game: Multi Cards
* New Game: Pair Cards
* New Game: Pinyin Cards
* New Game: Hanzi Cards
* New SplashScreen
* Share button hidden into games, don’t cheat!
* Bug fixes and improvements
* Fix for lesson in Android 9
* New Game: Multi Cards
* New Game: Pair Cards
* New Game: Pinyin Cards
* New Game: Hanzi Cards
* New SplashScreen
* Share button hidden into games, don’t cheat!
* Bug fixes and improvements
We found some bugs and we have killed them with our development hammer!
* New progress screens, more data for you!
* Improved audio recording storage management to fix SD card bug in some devices
* WritePinyin game is now easier: the letters included in the pinyin of the word are highlighted
* WritePinyin erase button: erase only the last pinyin letter, don’t need to start from scratch again!
* WritePinyin new keyboard layout with tone custom colors
* Improved close screen behavior: click on the arrow, the image or the title to close screen
* Top screen games progress bar click opens Progress Screen
* Picturecards images with better compression to improve performance
* New Picturecards: one card + image for each word, unlock them playing into games!
* New design style & icons
* New progress screen with accurate statistics & learning data: words, pinyin, tones, etc
* Content & translation corrections
* Small fixes and overall performance improvement
* Now you can cancel Board Game selection if you touch the same word
* Now you can sort the saved word list by pinyin, starred date ascendant or starred date descendant
* Saved word list now shows elapsed saved time
* Lessons small image in lesson screen header
* Games and other screens icon in header
* Notification push icon from the game or lesson
* Fixed bug in sentences voice recognition check status
* Fixed some hanzi and stroke count errors
* Complete design improvements, new animations
* StrokeCount game now with Chinese numbers
* Tones game now shows the real pinyin
* Configure tone colors in settings
* Multi language notifications
* Lot of optimizations and improvements
* Complete design improvements, new animations
* StrokeCount game now with Chinese numbers
* Tones game now shows the real pinyin
* Configure tone colors in settings
* Multi language notifications
* Lot of optimizations and improvements
* Complete design improvements, new animations* StrokeCount game now with Chinese numbers* Tones game now shows the real pinyin* Configure tone colors in settings* Multi language notifications* Lot of optimizations and improvements
* Complete design improvements, new animations* StrokeCount game now with Chinese numbers* Tones game now shows the real pinyin* Configure tone colors in settings* Multi language notifications* Lot of optimizations and improvements
* Complete design improvements, new animations* StrokeCount game now with Chinese numbers* Tones game now shows the real pinyin* Configure tone colors in settings* Multi language notifications* Lot of optimizations and improvements
- Circle Progress widget on lessons download progress- Fixed some traditional hanzi errors in database- Fixed bugs- Now min Android version is Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3)
