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A Roadmap for Ninchanese: our Post-Kickstarter Plan

Ninchanese is funded on Kickstarter! It’s both really exciting and humbling to have so many backers believe in us and in our gamified Chinese learning app! We now have our work cut out to keep improving and growing Ninchanese. Read on to see what features we’ll be bringing to Ninchanese in the next 6 months!

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NinchaneseA Roadmap for Ninchanese: our Post-Kickstarter Plan
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We have a winner!

The Ninchallenge Tournament, which started on the 13th of July, ended last night, on the 26th of July! Over 25,000 words were played and close to 3,000 Ninchallenges were fought over these two weeks. What a success for this first edition of the Ninchallenge Tournament! Our 100+ Ninchallengers did good!

We’re very proud to announce the winner of the very first Ninchallenge Tournament. And the winner is….

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NinchaneseWe have a winner!
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The Ninchallenge Tournament is now open!

Join the action of the first ever Ninchallenge Tournament! For the next two weeks, Ninchanese is holding a Tournament for Chinese learners across the world. Starting today, you can play fun battles with your friends and other Chinese learners over your knowledge of Chinese! There are cool prizes to win for the Ninchampion!

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NinchaneseThe Ninchallenge Tournament is now open!
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Announcing the Ninchallenge Tournament!

Here at Ninchanese, we’re happy to announce our very first Ninchallenge Tournament! This is a tournament specially made for Chinese learners and dedicated to Chinese learners. You’ll be playing fun and friendly battles with your friends and other Chinese learners from across the world. Do you have what it takes to the NinChampion?

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NinchaneseAnnouncing the Ninchallenge Tournament!
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The science of storytelling: Why it powers your Chinese learning

In Ninchanese, you’re doing a lot more than simply learning Chinese. Today, we wanted to tell you more  about why we chose to send you Chinese learner, on a quest to save Ninchana as they learn Chinese and why we’re convinced storytelling powers your Chinese learning.

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NinchaneseThe science of storytelling: Why it powers your Chinese learning
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The Dragon Boat Festival Part 1: 4 Activities To Do

The Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Festival, 端午节 Duānwǔjié is today, Saturday the 20th June (2015)! Each year, this festival is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar, which falls on a different day every year. Read through to know the 4 things to do during this Festival!

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NinchaneseThe Dragon Boat Festival Part 1: 4 Activities To Do
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Kickass Vocabulary learning on Ninchanese!

Following our last update (Missed our last beta update? Read up on it here! ), this week’s beta update was focused on one important element, that is key to your Chinese learning: how you learn and review Chinese vocabulary. We’ve worked hard on making our learning smoother, adaptive and way more pleasant to use, as you’ll soon see. So read this, and then, please, take Ninchanese for a spin and let us know what you think of the changes!

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NinchaneseKickass Vocabulary learning on Ninchanese!
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5 Chinese words you didn’t expect to see a cat in!

Do you guys remember what we brought you two weeks ago: 6 purrfect cat quotes in Chinese? We hope you guys had a lot of fun with these cat sayings! We sure did. And since at Ninchanese, we’re super cat-lovers, we just couldn’t wait to continue our special “cat show” and tell you more funny expressions with”cat” in Chinese.  So today, let’s enjoy 5 Chinese words you didn’t expect to see a cat in! Ready?  Meow~

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Ninchanese5 Chinese words you didn’t expect to see a cat in!
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Beta update: better voice recognition in Chinese

Your Nincha Team has been working hard these past few days – weeks – on a beta update for Ninchanese that a lot of you Nincha learners had been asking for: improving our dialogue stages! And now, as you Nincha Learners requested this the most: we’ve dedicated this update to improving the way our voice recognition works and making the dialogue stages easier to use so we could really help you all learn to speak Chinese!

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NinchaneseBeta update: better voice recognition in Chinese