ToneBoard Keyboard

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ToneBoard Keyboard

Kevin Bell

AppRecs review analysis

AppRecs rating 4.8. Trustworthiness 71 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 25 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.

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4.8

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Ratings breakdown

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4 star

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3 star

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What to know

Low review manipulation risk

25% review manipulation risk

Credible reviews

71% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews

High user satisfaction

80% of sampled ratings are 5 stars

About ToneBoard Keyboard

It can be very difficult for language learners to remember Mandarin Chinese tones, especially when using language learning apps and typing with standard Pinyin keyboards. These keyboards don't require you to input tones, making it very easy to type the correct characters without knowing the correct tones. These keyboards also tend to remember your frequently used words or suggest complete phrases, which is not helpful for language learners.

By requiring you to enter tones along with Pinyin spellings before displaying characters, ToneBoard lets you practice recalling the correct tone for each syllable whenever you type.

ToneBoard works very similarly to the standard simplified Chinese QWERTY keyboard for iOS, except that it requires tones to be input while typing before displaying word and character choices.
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Reviews for ToneBoard Keyboard

squidtchi

Great concept!

I've been learning Mandarin for a few years, and was primarily using 注音符号 due to the lack of tones on iOS 汉语拼音 keyboards. (I use both 繁体字 & 简体字.) This board is great, and I can type much faster than I could with 注音符号, haha! My one wish is that it supported for haptic feedback, but other than that, thumbs up :)

levlaz

The best way to learn Chinese character tones

Using this app with Duo Lingo is the best way to truly learn the tones of Chinese characters. Using the standard pinyin keyboard tends to provide you with a false sense of confidence and makes it much harder to recall the tone of a character later on. I feel 10x more confident with my Chinese character reading and writing after using this app.

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