I made this app using Flutter over the past several months, and thought about it a lot longer than that. I’ve been learning Chinese for a while, and I’m somewhere in the back half of HSK4 in terms of fluency.
At its heart FluentCard is a flashcard app, but it has features around writing and it works entirely offline after the initial data download.
For most of my studies, I’ve been using Anki to practice. While I am extremely appreciative of Anki and its community, I found in learning Chinese it lacked a few things I really needed:
– Ease of creating new flashcards. I’d often be in a situation where I didn’t know how to translate a word or sentence, and wanted to note it down for later translation.
– Writing. In Chinese, not only are the characters themselves important, but the order of strokes. I had my own simple workflow for it, but it wasn’t ideal.
– Sentences. The app finds words you don’t have sentences for, and prompts you to create them. I’m working on a grammar pattern builder feature now to generate sentences too.
Other Chinese specific apps were great, but they often focused on beginners and didn’t work offline – and one of the prime times for studying I had was while commuting to/from work in the subway.
Feedback would be greatly appreciated, both on the technical side (the last mobile app I made was for BlackBerry!) as well as from a practicality/feature side.
It uses data for strokes from this amazing project by Shaunak Kishore: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
