# Mandarin Chinese by Nemo

> Easy, fast and fun learning

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id430676177](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id430676177)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id430676177`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nemo Apps LLC
- **Category:** Travel
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,587 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.9.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-26
- **First published:** 2011-04-21
- **Size:** 13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mandarin-chinese-by-nemo/id430676177)
- **Website:** [http://www.nemoapps.com/phrasebooks/mandarin](http://www.nemoapps.com/phrasebooks/mandarin)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://en.nemoapps.com/privacy](http://en.nemoapps.com/privacy)

## Description

Mandarin Chinese by Nemo turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into your portable Chinese teacher. It covers the most essential words and phrases, each with native speaker audio. Its Speech Studio lets you compare your pronunciation to the teacher’s, helping your accent improve. All audio can be downloaded for offline use, so learning is possible even without internet. This is not lesson-based; it’s designed to be picked up during short moments throughout the day, enabling practice anytime. No prior knowledge is required.

Personalized for you: Nemo tracks your progress, lets you tailor practice, immerses you in the sounds of Chinese, and supports what you want to learn. You can review earlier material, take quizzes, and view English descriptions in flashcards—designed to reinforce long-term memory. Words are introduced progressively to build familiarity, with memory-friendly reviews at the right moments.

## Rankings

- #44,628 — Overall

## Review summary

The Nemo Mandarin app is praised for its user-friendly design, customizable daily goals and pace, and solid vocabulary content with clear pronunciation. It’s valued as ad-free and reasonably priced, with good performance and updates. Recurrent downsides across reviews are audio problems (mismatch and voice balance), a limited word pool (words run out and slower content expansion), and some bugs or stability concerns. A few users also sense stagnant development. Overall, it’s a solid, affordable self-study tool with notable strengths and common usability caveats.

### Pros

- Easy to use and intuitive interface.
- Highly customizable learning experience (words per day, pace, reminders) with progress tracking.
- Strong vocabulary content with clear pronunciation and well-organized lessons.
- Ad-free experience and good value; free or affordable.
- Generally reliable performance with updates that keep it working on iOS.

### Cons

- Audio issues: mismatch between spoken words and on-screen text, plus Chinese vs English voice balance and occasional pacing/volume problems.

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