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iOS game for recognising traditional (or simplified)

Byzanti   June 12th, 2011 7:54p.m.

I've found this game called "Chinese Characters Fly" on the itunes store.

The idea is that you drag characters around and match them. Not much to it.

There are two modes. The main mode isn't of much interest to me (eg, drag 口 and 八 to make 叭), but the second one is. It asks you to match up simplified and traditional characters.

It's not going to replace study of traditional characters on Skritter (i'll get round to that eventually), but it does at very least act as a nice introduction for recognising them.

Mandarinboy   June 13th, 2011 8:07p.m.

Thanks for this. I will try this out.

junglegirl   June 14th, 2011 4:25p.m.

Cool, I just downloaded it. Something else to tide me over until the skritter app arrives.

Byzanti   June 14th, 2011 4:53p.m.

Great. You've got a high score of 75 to beat :p.

Kai Carver   June 15th, 2011 5:29a.m.

Interesting. I don't have an iAnything, but this video shows how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESRXib7f-dk
Looks like the same kind of thing could be done in a web app.

Also reminds me of an old, old cell phone game called Pinyin Hai, where you dropped Chinese characters into an ever-rising "sea of pinyin":
http://www.learnhanzi.com/pinyinhai/

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