The must-have iPhone Apps to navigate Shanghai and China
Discover below our selection of free or paying applications and click on the provided links to download them from iTunes!
iChinese By Hubermat Software
iChinese helps you to learn Chinese!
As a native application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, iChinese is the ideal companion to let you at any time and any place look up Chinese characters in the dictionary or to find out the correct pronounciation of a word.
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5000 Chinese Audio Flashcards By Daniel Cota
5000 Chinese characters (divided into 200 decks), each one spoken by a native Chinese speaker. Learn the character, the pinyin, the definition and hear the character spoken!
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Panda Radicals Chinese Flashcards By Sun Kai Productions
This Free version of Panda Flashcards, Panda Radicals, contains two wordlists covering Radicals and Measure words and is intended to give an introduction to the main program's interface. To take your Chinese learning to the next level download the complete Panda Flashcard App containing over 8000 words, numerous flashcard options, HSK
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Talk Chinese By Benjamin Holfeld
Hear and Learn the 80 Most Important Spoken Chinese Phrases! The easiest way ever!
Chinese (Mandarin) is the most spoken language on the planet. China is gaining power. Know how to communicate with them: Talk Chinese!
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Shanghai Restaurants By Kiwi Mobi
Meeting a friend for brunch, lunch or dinner and need the address in Chinese? No problem, the Show To Taxi feature will provide the driver with the needed information to get you to your destination.
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Shanghai Guide By Bleum
Shanghai, a modern and mysterious oriental city, attracts numerous visitors; in the meantime, there are a lot of foreigners living in the city. If you are either one of them, this application could certainly help!
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iTravel Shanghai By Beijing Motech Technology Co.,Ltd.
Do you want to go to Shanghai? Are you eager to speak Chinese there? Travelling around without a guide? If yes, 'iTravel Shanghai' is a really good assistant to help you.
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Explore Shanghai Metro map By ExploreMetro
Shanghai's best metro map, fully up-to-date including new Line 7, Line 11, and Line 2 and 9 extension. From the people who run exploreshanghai.com, Shanghai's most popular mapping site, now you can have an up-to-date Shanghai Metro map wherever you go. Available for iPhone and iPod touch and doesn't require an internet connection.
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Lingolook CHINA By Lingolook Publishing LLC
Its clean, cartoonish flash cards of important words and phrases—more than 300, from “I’m allergic to nuts” to “speak slowly” — are said aloud if you tap your screen, delivering you from faux pas and pronunciation debacles."
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MetroNav Shanghai By Chih-Wen Yang
Have you been to shanghai ? Or you are planning to visit Shanghai ? In large city,like shanghai , it is convenient to take metro to get anywhere. But in most case, metro system is complicated. For a foreigner, it's hard to understand quickly in a short trip. MetroNav Shanghai is the tool for you to overcome it. It provides most complete information you needed.
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Learn Chinese - ChinesePod By Praxis Language
ChinesePod is a convenient way to learn Chinese combining audio lesson, study tools and speaking practice. Sample three audio lessons for free then signup on ChinesePod.com for a trial account to continue to receive new lessons as they are published.
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XE Currency By XE.com Inc.
Convert 180+ currencies on the go with the XE Currency converter by XE.com - the world’s favorite currency site. With over one million downloads, this currency calculator is simple, powerful, and best of all, FREE!
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Chinese Flashcards By ChineseLearnOnline.com
This app is for those who want to learn to read Chinese characters. Rather than getting you frustrated by the thousands of characters out there, this app starts off with the most common characters - one at a time - and then works its way to less common ones. The ones you know won't be shown again, while the ones you have trouble with will be shown to you again later. This way you can focus your learning on characters that you find difficult.
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Show & Go China (free) By Geogini Pte. Ltd.
With Geogini, no need anymore to keep 10 different post-it in your pocket, or wonder how to say to the taxi-driver your destination. Type in Geogini the place you want to go, and with more than 30 000 locations Geogini will instantly display it in Chinese characters. A must have when in China"
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eStroke Animated Chinese Characters By EON Media Limited
There is no easier way to learn Chinese Stroke Order than to have eStroke show it to you. Just enter any Chinese Character and eStroke will show you the correct Stroke Order, radical, meanings, pinyin, zhuyin and jyutping and commonly used phrases.
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KTdict C-E (Chinese-English dictionary) By Klaus Thul
KTdict C-E for iPhone and iPod touch provides you a comprehensive, easy to use and fast Chinese-English dictionary. IIt includes the data of the renowned CC-CEDICT dictionary with over 70.000 entries - no Internet connection required.
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Shanghai Mahjong Lite By MobileAge
••• WINNER BEST iPHONE GAME •••
"With solid controls, a variety of game modes, and nearly endless customization via direct downloads, Shanghai Mahjong came away the winner in our Games category. — iLounge.com
Download here!
Do you know any interesting iPhone App related to Shanghai or China?



