TCB | Read Chinese to Learn

I’m paying for this too but can’t access articles. Remove bugs and this thing rocks.

GBVfanSun, May 5, 2024

United States

Great app for listening to news articles in Chinese while being able to touch on Chinese words with pinyin to see the translation as you listen.

NoranoldFri, Feb 2, 2024

United States

I have been studying Traditional Mandarin forever and always looking for new apps in order to improve my skills. So years ago, I went through this fabulous The Chairman’s Bao and fell in love with it! This year I made the decision of purchasing a few Mandarin lifetime subscriptions apps and can’t be happier with the decision I made !!!🤓🤩🙏🏻 Reading and listening are one of the keys in order to acquire a new language skills, especially if one wants to take it to a higher level. This app focus on this -I would say - almost a 100%. It helps to connect audio, reading / sentences sequences, and Chinese characters , so you can practice memorizing as well. The fact you can also read aloud these short stories and articles is a fantastic way to feel confident with Mandarin. It’s amazing how many different words one can learn by reading this material regularly!! One of the positive things about TCB is its huge and diverse library with different levels of vocabulary, which is renewed I think almost every day with new additions ! Please, give a try! You won’t regret!🙌🏻🌟🤩It’s SO easy to keep up with Mandarin this way!🫶🏻🥰 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I would like to thank Diego and his wonderful team for their patience and kindness!🙌🏻🤩 Leah Grullón M.

estafada por rtveSun, Jan 7, 2024

United States

I’m so happy with the new TCB app! The team has done a great job and I’m convinced that TCB is really the only app one would need to study Chinese. Maybe the part that could use some improvement is the flash card system. However, TCB has integration with Hack Chinese - which I haven’t used yet - so I imagine it’s not a priority to tinker with. Maybe I’m using that feature incorrectly, but I can’t seem to get cards to sort from oldest to newest. And there’s no notification like in an SRS style flash card system of what you should be reviewing when. I use a free app for that part of learning but there’s also a lot of debate whether flash cards are even helpful. TCB gives students the tools to take charge of their learning and that is what I appreciate most. The audio for the stories is exceptional and the content is so interesting compared to a textbook. I genuinely enjoy reading the articles that are published. Thanks!

madcow19Sun, Jan 7, 2024

United States

The content is great, but ever since the new update the user experience has dropped significantly. While the new UI is certainly prettier that’s about all it is. It feels like form was emphasized over function and that large parts of the user experience were not tested before releasing the new version. I find it hard to believe that these glaring issues were not known ahead of time and it’s clear that the update was deliberately released in an unfinished state. Here are some glaring issues that I discovered within 10 minutes of using the new update: - Pop ups behave inconsistently (e.g. when clicking on a word for it’s definition clicking back on the article context does not close the definition menu, but other pop ups will close when tapped off). - Clicking the close menu button on the word definition sometimes causes another pop up for copying the word/sentence to appear. - The button for returning to the main page from an article will sometimes disappear forcing you to have to restart the app. - Inconsistent alignment of buttons on articles from the main menu (e.g sometimes the bookmark button is only half rendered as it is pushed off to the side). Please find a UX designer who will take the user experience seriously and please do not release the product in an unfinished state that makes it frustrating to use. So much effort went into making everything “look better”, but the main experience of the app (i.e. the article reader) is somehow worse than it was before. While the previous experience wasn’t perfect at least it wasn’t as much of a buggy mess as the current release.

Irohan_GTRMon, Oct 30, 2023

United States

The content is great, but ever since the new update the user experience has dropped significantly. While the new UI is certainly prettier that’s about all it is. It feels like form was emphasized over function and that large parts of the user experience were not tested before releasing the new version. I find it hard to believe that these glaring issues were not known ahead of time and it’s clear that the update was deliberately released in an unfinished state. Here are some glaring issues that I discovered within 10 minutes of using the new update: - Pop ups behave inconsistently (e.g. when clicking on a word for it’s definition clicking back on the article context does not close the definition menu, but other pop ups will close when tapped off). - Clicking the close menu button on the word definition sometimes causes another pop up for copying the word/sentence to appear. - The button for returning to the main page from an article will sometimes disappear forcing you to have to restart the app. - Inconsistent alignment of buttons on articles from the main menu (e.g sometimes the bookmark button is only half rendered as it is pushed off to the side). Please find a UX designer who will take the user experience seriously and please do not release the product in an unfinished state that makes it frustrating to use. So much effort went into making everything “look better”, but the main experience of the app (i.e. the article reader) is somehow worse than it was before. While the previous experience wasn’t perfect at least it wasn’t as much of a buggy mess as the current release.

Irohan_GTRSun, Oct 29, 2023

United States

This is one of my most useful apps for learning Chinese characters In an interesting and meaningful way. I would like to see more variety in text sizing. I noticed some want the size to be smaller but I would like it to be larger especially the first time I’m studying an article. I do sometimes have glitches in the games section for some reason. I really like those games because my memory needs them to help retain the characters.

TcavebearSun, Sep 17, 2023

United States