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Re:Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? by gbraad on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @09:48AM (#4992652)
I am a senior software engineer in 北京 and my wife works at 人大. We are both quite involved in teaching and have to say; Good pronunciations and the idea of constructing patterns and sentences is nice and refreshing. Wish we could also have a similar tool to assist with teaching English. Small issue, the app is called learnfastIOS on install.
Re:Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? by alan_h on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @09:55AM (#4992668)
Thanks for point that out! Correcting it promptly! (I renamed the app, as I prefer the name MandarinTap)
Re:Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? by gbraad on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:02AM (#4992859)
Makes more sense...

Oh yeah, changeable font would be nice as Chinese characters are mostly about pattern recognition. And as you know, they have the stylized and abstract way... Clerical, regular, etc. This can sometimes lead to confusion to newcomers as endingsvare more fluent, angled, etc.

Re:Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? by icodestuff on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @04:11AM (#5030799)
It's still showing as LearnFastIOS for me: iPhone 4 5.0.1, iPad 3 5.1.1.