Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M

Re:Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M by Symbiote on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:14PM (#9693286)

I've been learning Mandarin, and after searching for something like Duolingo found Chinese Skill [一]. It's not as good as Duolingo, but does include a way to teach characters. It would be great if it could have a drawing interface like Pleco [二] which can reliably recognise most characters I draw, with my terrible handwriting.

They do teach English to speakers of Chinese, Mandarin and Hindi.

[一] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chineseski...

[二] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chin...

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Re:Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M by ximeng on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:18PM (#9693765)

Skritter will fix your Mandarin handwriting and tones if you use it regularly. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nwinter who did it is now doing a game to teach coding invested in by ycombinator.

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Re:Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M by andrewmb on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:23PM (#9693811)

Memrise has some decent Chinese decks.

But if you really want to learn the writing, get skritter. Absolutely worth the cost.

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