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The Chinese Grammar Wiki is now an ebook!

At the end of March, AllSet Learning officially released the "Elementary" (A1-A2) volume of an ebook series that reformats the Chinese Grammar Wiki content for portable ebook format. It is already available for Amazon Kindle, and will soon be available in the iBook store as well.

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Introducing the Chinese Pronunciation Wiki

We originally launched the Chinese Grammar Wiki in 2012. We honestly didn't think it would be this long before we launched our next free resource, but it turns out fleshing out the Chinese Grammar Wiki was a ton of work (who would have guessed, right?).

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How to Use Pronunciation Packs

With the release of the AllSet Learning Online Store, we are now offering Pronunciation Packs to help elementary and intermediate learners of Chinese improve their pronunciation in critical areas.

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Adventures in Chinese Haggling

Our summer intern Zach had zero Chinese when he started. That hasn't stopped him from communicating! Here's how he did with just “Dūo shăo qían?” (how much?) and “TaÌ guÌ le!” (too expensive!).

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AllSet Pinyin 2.0

AllSet Learning Pinyin 2.0 has been released, and is now available as a universal app with retina graphics which works on both the iPhone (tall and short) as well as the iPad. We've actually been working on this app for quite a while. Why did it take so long?

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AllSet Learning Pinyin 1.6 Released

AllSet Learning Pinyin 1.6, the first major update since the app's public release, is now in the Apple app store. The app is still the best pinyin chart out there for studying Chinese, but now as an option for pinyin audio, all four tones can be played in a row, instead of just one at a time.

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