OracleQuest: Learn Chinese

OracleQuest teaches 500 Chinese characters through their oldest surviving forms: the oracle-bone script carved on turtle shells and ox bones in the Shang dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago. • Meet each character as a picture first: the sun, a horse, a hand, a boat. • Trace it with your finger, rebuild it from bone fragments, match it to its modern form. • Watch it change from oracle bone to bronze, seal and modern script. • Read a whole divination text laid out part by part, with the characters you have learned. • 31 chapters and 148 lessons of 3–7 minutes, with spaced review of what you find hard. • Point the camera at a carved or printed character, or pick a photo, and the app names it — entirely on your device. • Finish today's dig and unearth a fragment of one of 21 Shang artifacts. • Visit the museum: a timeline of the Shang reigns, and the artifacts you have restored. Every…