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The app is great and how they teach the language is very acceptable. They offer reviews that could be a little more mixed in what you have already learned besides a random group of questions from one lesson you learned at a time. The biggest problem this app has is honestly enough to make me look for other apps to use and it’s such an easy one to fix: they have questions that ask you to translate the native speaker in a video. They are almost always filmed outdoors and with people who seem to want to do anything but say the sentence. Zero quality control here makes these videos a huge annoyance and they can’t be skipped. They have an option to slow the audio but sometimes that makes it even worse because all the speakers mumble horribly. I have reported nearly every video I’ve come across in the app. But to be honest the further I get into the lessons the worse the video quality and speaker clarity gets. How anyone was stupid enough to think this awful attempt at a native speaker attempt was good is beyond me. If these parts were able to be skipped or done with an ounce of professionalism this app would be great.

Very frustrated with the lack of transparency and deceptive promotion of an educational platform that should be more easily accessible to users. There is no advance notice when you start the main course (nor on the the app’s page in the App Store) that you can only get through a limited number of lessons before you are asked to pay a premium subscription fee in order to access the rest of the course. Nor is there any guidance anywhere on the app that makes it known to users that the basic course is available instead without the premium subscription. This is entirely a bait and switch scheme. The app is otherwise great with its informative lessons and use of a variety of educational tools, including speaking practice, but the utter lack of transparency with respect to the paywall setup really undermines the value of this app. A clear, advance disclaimer of when users are expected to pay up a subscription fee during the course or a trial basis expressly made for a preliminary number of lessons would prevent such misleading design.

HelloChinese is a fun, easy to follow program. You're given a variety of options to adjust the level of difficulty, as well as many supplemental learning tools such as flash cards, games, videos. It covers all the aspects of the Chinese language, including but not limited to proper pronunciation, reading both pinyin and traditional characters, as well as writing/typing pinyin and traditional characters. There is an achievement point system that allows you to access more content, and there is something satisfying about working my way down the curriculum path. I'd recommend this app to anyone wanting to learn to read, speak and write in Chinese. ETA (2021): I’ve returned to HelloChinese after a long hiatus and was glad to see there was a new, more comprehensive course available. However, they have done away with the games section for the new course and according to support there are no plans to reintroduce it. This is false advertisement considering that the Premium subscription claims that you have unlimited access to all training games. You can access the games still, but in order to play them you have to progress in the old course (which is redundant to and goes in a different order from the new course). That’s a huge limitation if you ask me, not to mention a huge inconvenience. The games were a big part of why I used to love this app, so my new rating and amended review is going to reflect that.