Learn Chinese Vocab + HSK Fast

• Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix

• Track your progress: Now shows accumulated lap counts in the topic and sub-topic lists. Remembers between sessions so you can see where you're getting stronger and which topics you need more practice in. • Don't lose your place — and don't lose your lap progress: when you exit the river view and return it will remember where you left off, and which mode — sequential or shuffled. • New river screen header: now shows a random encouragement-type word, e.g. "jia you!", at the beginning. The word shown is randomly taken from words in the sub-topic: Casual Conversation:Cheers. • UI bug fixes • Lots of under-the-hood fixes

• New Feature: Instant Advance buttons: to next word w/just one tap. Tired of endlessly flicking your thumb? Now just tap on an up arrow on either side of the screen. • New Topic: Travel! Topic Updates: • Business & Finance • Food & Drink • Cooking & Eating • Restaurants • Clothing • Computers & Networks

What's New: • Internal Updates • Fixed bug with autospeak when app is restarted • Fixed bug when list was shuffled and app was restarted • Vocab Additions across multiple topics

• Internal updates • Fixed "Cheers & Encouragement" subtopic in Casual Conversation • Other vocab fixes • Vocab additions: Casual Conversation Meeting & Greeting: 久仰 Restaurant Dining Snacks: 洋芋片 Weather & Seasons Temperature: 气温 Computers & Networks Operating Systems: 重新安装 Software: 版本, 弹出 Files & Folders: 格式化

• Under-the-hood fixes improving the scrolling smoothness • Various fixes to vocab items

• Save your spot: if the app restarts it now remembers where you were in the middle of a list, even if it was a long shuffled list it will remember the words you've already seen and show the rest of the unseen words before repeating the list! • Added fast/slow rate-of-speech toggle • Various minor fixes • Lots of vocab additions: People General People: 姑娘 Casual Conversation Meeting & Greeting: 常联系 Pleasantries: 允许, 无所谓, 怎么搞的, 好说 Small Talk: 彼此彼此, 开玩笑的, 不关你事, 怎么办, 我也是 Well Wishes: 祝你顺利 Cheers & Encouragement: 给弄一下 Sayings & Expressions: 翻天覆地 Insults: 傻瓜, 傻帽, 胆小鬼 Exclamations: 哟, 倒霉 Food Drinks: 纯净水 Grains & Beans: 豌豆 Leafy Vegetables: 大豆苗, 豌豆尖 Mushrooms/Fungi: 菌子, 菇蕈, 菌褶, 菌柄, 菌伞, 口蘑, 云芝, 刺芹菇, 鸡枞, 毒蕈 Meats: 骨髓 Seafood: 鱼肚 Nuts & Seeds: 扁桃 Spices: 蒜末 Sauces: 甜面酱 Cooking & Eating Food Preparation: 搅打, 打散, 冷冻, 解冻, 溶解, 滤液 Cooking: 煮熟, 焯, 白灼, 泡茶 Eating: 过瘾 Restaurants Dining: 包间, 包厢 Regional Specialties: 手抓羊肉, 大盘鸡, 三杯鸡 Cantonese Cuisine: 芙蓉蛋, 葡国鸡 Flavors & Styles: 配方, 菜谱, 食谱 Dumplings & Buns: 包裹, 粽子 Beverages: 红豆冰 Coffee Drinks: 沫 Bakery: 酥, 布朗尼 Western Cuisine: 煎蛋, 煎蛋卷, 太阳蛋, 荷包蛋, 左宗鸡 Popular Restaurants: 必胜客 Alcohol: 马奶酒 Candy & Sweets: 刨冰 City & Town Roads & Highways: 路边, 环岛, 桥梁, 吊桥 Vehicles:脚踏车, 拖车, 巴士 House & Home Places to Live: 城堡 Household Appliances: 吹风机 Everyday Items Personal Articles: 护照 Business & Finance Transactions: 营业 Shopping: 退货 Employment: 解雇, 炒鱿鱼 Computers & Networks Hardware: 充电宝 , 行动电源 Operating Systems: 口令 Popular Websites: 小红书 Email & Messaging: 短信, 短讯, 私信, 简讯, 密 Clothing Accessories: 佩戴 Parts of Clothing: 扣子 Textiles: 布料, 羽毛, 蝴蝶结 The Body The Head: 鼻梁 Colors & Shapes Shapes: 团, 螺旋 Dopplegangers Twins: 夏/复 Time & Date Periods of the Day: 天黑 Relative Times: 那天, 改天 Months and Seasons: 月初, 中旬, 月底, 月末, 暑期

• Lots of new words: People General Family: 监护人 Casual Convo Meeting & Greeting: 光临 Small Talk: 超级棒, 炫酷 Commands: 稍等 Location & Direction Location: 各处, 随处, 遍地 Food Meat: 里脊 Spices: 糖精, 阿斯巴甜 Cooking & Eating Eating: 吃掉 Meals: 即食 Restaurants Coffee: 冷脆 Candy & Sweets : 棉花软糖/棉花糖 New subtopic: Snacks! Earth&Sky Bodies of Water: 水域 Business & Finance Employment: 辞职 Animals Domesticated: 犬 Canines & Felines: 野猫 • Other internal improvements

• When scrolling words upwards the new word will now always stop at the middle of the screen, just before the pinyin appears and the word is spoken. No need to "catch" it with your thumb before it reveals the answers! • Also adjusted the autospeak 'trigger zones' - now you can easily hear the word spoken repeatedly by scrolling it down a bit and back up without lifting your thumb off the screen. • Modified the word/lap counter label • Internal fixes

• Under-the-hood tweaks

• Audio improvements:  - Sound will be muted when the mute switch is activated. (also when volume is turned down to zero) - Audio reliability improved when switching between apps.

• Under-the-hood improvements

• Internal improvements

Vocab Updates - Time & Date - 2 new subtopics: Past, Present & Future Holidays & Festivals Other Additions - Computers & Networks Keys & Keyboards: 跳格键 Food Vegetables: 尖椒 Restaurant Dining Candy & Sweets: 蛋挞

• Dark mode background color darkened a bit (looks better in low light) • Updated some characters that have multiple ways to pronounce (e.g. 长, 行) to show/speak both pronunciations. • New words and topic updates: - Everyday Items: Stationery: 贴纸 Also moved some words out of the 'everyday items' subtopic and created a new subtopic: Materials - Restaurant Dining: 鲁菜, 闽菜, 浙菜, 冰糖葫芦 - Time & Date: 天亮 - The Body: 人体

BRAND NEW TOPIC: Restaurant Dining - vocab for dining out, ordering food, typical dishes in Chinese and Western cuisine, other kinds of prepared food and lots of drinks. Changes to the App: • Option to override Dark/Light mode system settings • App now remembers where you were (what topic/subtopic was chosen) if it is quit and restarted. • Under the hood improvements Several Topics have been restructured: - Food & Drink: several subtopics were moved to the new Restaurant Dining topic - Cooking & Eating: created a new subtopic "Textures" using words from Flavors - Computers & Networks: created a new subtopic “Files & Folders” using words from OS's and Software - Business & Finance: created new subtopic "Employment" using words from Labor Word Additions: Computers & Networks: Operating Systems: 蓝屏死机 Files & Folders: 快捷方式 The Internet: 物联网, 抓取程序 People: General: 男孩儿, 女孩儿 Business & Finance Business: 经商 Labor: 辞去, 报销 Employment: 录用, 实习, 自由职业, 职位, 合同 Money: 本位货币/本币, 外币 Transactions: 免费 Everyday Items Household Products: 手纸 Clothing Accessories 2: 副手套 City & Town Vehicles: 的士 House & Home Places to Live: 洞府 Food Meats: 肉沫, 肉松, 野味 Sauces: 苏梅酱, 红油 Cooking & Eating Meals: 膳食, 套餐 Flavor: 开胃 Animals: Domesticated: 家畜, 牲口 Large Mammals: 兽类, 野兽

Improvements • Fixes to the daily reminder system • Updates to the User's Guide • Settings: Improved Traditional/Simplified switch • Settings: Link to the System's App Settings page (to enable notifications) Vocabulary Updates: Family Close Family: 伴侣 Father’s Side: 重孙, 重孙女, 玄孙 Casual Conversation: New subtopic!: Cheers - words of encouragement (these are used in the daily practice reminders you can enable in the app) Weather Seasons: 冬季, 春季, 夏季, 秋季, 冬令, 春令, 夏令, 秋令 Parts of the Body Head: 汗毛孔 Hair: 一缕头发, 一撮头发, 一绺头发, 一撮山羊胡, 体毛 City & Town Roads & Highways: 排水沟 House & Home Parts of the House: 天沟 Household Appliances: 温控器, 恒温器, 烟雾报警器 Cooking & Eating Meals: 野炊, 道菜 Flavor: 清爽, 爽脆 Food Fruits 2: 冬瓜, 苦瓜, 香瓜

• Various and sundry fixes • Lots more new words: Shapes & Colors Colors: 鲜艳, 彩色, 漆黑 Everyday Items, Stationery: 信件 Business & Finance: Staff: 所有主, 所有者, 技术工人 Shopping: 旧货, 二手货, 二维码 Animals: Insects & Worms: 蜣螂, 幼虫, 蟑螂, 蜚蠊, 虼蚤, 蛞蝓, 蜒蚰, 千足虫, 大黄蜂, 白蚁, 螨虫, 尘螨, 蜱, 虱, 蛾子, 鼠妇, 潮虫 Animal Lairs: 蜘蛛网 Fish: 淡水鱼 Cooking&Eating Flavor: 霉变, 发霉 Food: Fruits 1: 果子, 蟠桃 Dairy: 乳制品, 奶品, 乳脂 Vegetables 2: 薯蓣 Earth & Sky Bodies of Water: 水帘 Business & Finance Finance & Banking: 资金 House & Home Places to Live: 公馆 Parts of the House: 扶梯 Household Appliances: 除湿器 City & Town Places in the City: 摩天楼, 大厦 Shopping: 电梯, 自动扶梯 Clothing Footwear: 鞋码

Lots of new words in several Topics: • Tone Twisters, Miscellaneous: 美石/美式/美事 • Clothing, Accessories 2: 耳套, 耳罩 • Food Grains & Beans: 糯稻, 黄豆 Meats: 牛柳, 肘子 • Cooking & Eating Flavor: 口感, 美食, 美味, 佳肴 Meals: 宴席 • Everyday Items Containers: 木桶 Office Supplies, 胶水, 胶棒, 口红胶, 方便贴, 便利贴, 涂改液, 修正液 • House & Home Places to Live: 家居 Rooms in the Home: 堆房 • Business & Finance Transactions: 付款方式 Finance & Banking: 转账 • Computers & Networks Operating Systems: 图标, 属性, 保存, 打印, 关掉, 图片, 死机 Software: 功能, 程序, 截图 Networking: 插入 Email: 发邮件, 转发 The Internet: 评论 Also some updates to Animals, Birds & Other Mammals

Big updates to two topics: Casual Conversation: two new subtopics: Exclamations, and Insults Animals: primates & marine mammals get their own subtopics, other minor fixes & updates. Many other Topic updates: Tone Twisters, City & Town, Weather, Earth & Sky, Computers & Networks, Clothing, Everyday Items, Food, Cooking & Eating, Date & Time

Added better support for Traditional characters. There is now a switch in the settings to choose between simplified or traditional characters, also you can toggle using the (s)/(t) icons on the review screens. Also now the app will show traditional characters in the topic & subtopic list views. Added a daily reminder feature: will set an optional daily practice reminder. Vocab List Updates: • Big update to Food topic: split Meats & Dairy into 3 subtopics - Meat, Seafood, & Dairy, and added many new words including lots of new fruits. • Restructured Cooking & Eating topic: added lots of new cooking utensils, added 'Pots & Pans' subtopic. • Many updates to other topics, including Animals, Clothing, Casual Conversation, Colors & Shapes, Computers, and Everyday Items

The app now announces the Topic and Sub-topic verbally when selected, unless the autospeak option is disabled. Some significant reorganization on several Free Topics: • People: added new subtopic: 姻亲 - In-Laws, and re-arranged some other topics. • Casual Conversation: added new subtopic: 祝福 - Well Wishes, with lots of wishes and greetings from Chinese New Year, Birthdays, and more. • Doppelgängers: added, removed or moved several words. Other changes & additions: • Clothing: over 30 new words and a new topic (Footwear) • Food: 珍笋 - bamboo shoots, 无花果 - fig, 煎饼 - crêpe/pancake • Cooking & Eating: Lots of additions and updates to Food Preparation subtopic • Body: 泪管 - tear duct • Animals: 鬣狗 - hyena

New Feature: Cruise Mode! In cruise mode the characters advance automatically, pausing for the clue, then again for the answer. Updates/Additions: HSK 2: 长 - fixed pronunciation People: reogranized subtopics Close Family, and Relatives Cooking & Eating: 开胃 - appetizing Food: 柚子 - pomelo, 沙茶 - satay sauce, reorganized several subtopics City & Town: 商铺 - store House & Home: 盥洗室 - bathroom Animals: 枪乌贼 - squid, 乌贼 - cuttlefish, 鳝 - Chinese yellow eel, 海参 - sea cucumber

Updates/Additions: Dopplegangers: new subtopic "Double Agents" - 多音字 - 15 characters with multiple pronunciations and/or meanings Shapes & Colors: 暗淡 - dark/dull, 碧绿 - dark green, 国防色 - camouflage Cooking & Eating: 酥 - flaky Food: 麦芽 - malt Everyday Items: 细绳 - string/cord, 毡头笔 - felt-tip pen Animals: 蚊子 - mosquito, 蟋蟀 - cricket, 甲鱼 - turtle, 刺猬 - hedgehog