Chinese@OU

Chinese@OU app icon This free Chinese character learning app is developed by the Chinese language team at The Open University (UK) with interactive activities to help you write, recognise visually and aurally, and memorise some of the most frequently used characters in a systematic, friendly and fun way. Most importantly it helps you to form phrases and sentences with the limited characters learnt.

This app contains the first 200 plus characters introduced in The Open University's beginners’ Chinese courses. These are the most frequently used characters taught at beginners’ level and are also part of the GCSE Chinese syllabus. By combining them, you will learn a further 200+ useful words and phrases (e.g. 网 net + 球 ball = 网球 tennis, which you will be asked to search for in one of the Word Search Activities).

The app has 16 lessons which chronologically build upon each other. Each of the 16 lessons has the following five interactive activities with audio embedded: Writing, Reading, Listening, Rearranging, and Identifying or Word Search.

Note: Except Lesson 1, all odd numbered lessons have the Identifying activity. All even numbered lessons have the Word search activity like a puzzle.

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