r/ChineseLanguage • u/LilSkeps • 1d ago

Discussion Merry Mandarin

I saw this app that's relatively new called Merry Mandarin, and I've been using it for a few days and it seems to work. However I am concerned because a lot of the english in the apps seems to be ai-generated. They don't tell you what is ai and what isn't and I'm afraid that if they generate chinese w/ai then I could be learning wrong and building bad habits. Does anybody know of this app and if it's trustworthy or not?

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u/Putrid_Mind_4853 22h ago

Whole thing looks AI/vibe coded to me. I wouldn’t bother with any of those—use a major app that’s been around, been vetted, and isn’t likely to be abandoned in the next year or two.

There are tons of shared Anki decks that are high quality. 

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u/LilSkeps 19h ago

are all the major apps in the subreddits info tab?

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u/hanziYuan 1d ago

can't vouch for that app. ai chinese usually keeps the grammar and misses how words pair up. it writes 提升我的中文能力, i'd just say 中文變好了.

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u/LilSkeps 1d ago edited 1d ago

thanks!

i know for flashcards anki is good but do you know where to get a word list?