Learn Chinese: Toy Story 3 App on Sale

As noted earlier today, Disney Publishing is kicking off the school year with an exciting app sale! All Disney Learning apps will be only $1.99 on the App Store (orig. $4.99) from August 29^th – September 12^th!  One of the apps on sale is Learn Chinese: Toy Story 3 (introduction to basic Mandarin).

Learn Chinese: Toy Story 3 presents a whole new way to learn a foreign language with this read-along app based on the international teaching method Diglot Weave. Start learning Chinese with this engaging, story-driven app! Disney’s proven language program is now on the iPad with interactive features, endless replay and classic Toy Story 3 characters! You don’t have to know a single word in Chinese—this app actually teaches you while you’re having fun.

Kids experience the excitement of Toy Story 3 with Buzz and Woody while gradually transforming it from English to a story they understand in Chinese and Pinyin, mixing the new with the known by playing with 5 progressive levels of the story:

Level 1. English only
Level 2. Beginning Chinese/Pinyin (25%)
Level 3. Intermediate (50% Chinese/Pinyin)
Level 4. Advanced (75% Chinese/Pinyin)
Level 5. 100% Chinese/Pinyin

This innovative app is the first in a series of carefully leveled stories that combine Disney magic with proven language learning methods.

Demo Video: http://youtu.be/qL03PXdSKnA

Special Features:

• Interactive translation, audio and a recording tool empower you to discover a new language and learn at your own pace.
• Hear each word in both languages individually pronounced.
• If you forget a word, flick it into the translator.
• Record yourself and compare your pronunciation to the narrator.
• Play with Chinese and English, comparing vocabulary and eventually grammar.
• Reinforce learning by using a pronunciation guide and glossary composed of English, Pinyin, and Chinese characters.
• Learn the tones of Chinese using a Pinyin and audio tutorial.
• Master more than 100 words, comparable to one term of language learning!

Fun with Learning:

• Toy Story 3 delivers the imaginative world you already know and can now enjoy in 100 interactive, language learning pages.
• Rewards from Toy Story 3 friends cheer you on as you progress from English to Chinese.
• Playful interactive features with endless repeat playability encourage practice, practice, practice!
• Beautiful illustrations support language learning.
• Intended for ages 7 to adult or younger than 7 with a parent.

Educational Value:

• Based on the proven pedagogical approach to language learning called Diglot Weave—for the first time in an app!
• Supervised by Dr. Ji Yuhua, a renowned scholar and the pioneer of this method of language learning in China.
• Benefit from the experience of more than 30 years of best-selling language learning products from Disney and the award-winning language program of Disney English.

Details:

• $4.99 – ON SALE FOR $1.99 on the App Store from August 29^th – September 12^th
• Category: Education
• Updated: Jul 12, 2012
• Version: 1.1
• Size: 146 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications
• © 2012 Disney/Pixar
• Rated 4+
• Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later

Jodi Whisenhunt’s MAGICAL MOUSE SCHOOLHOUSE: Learn While You Play at Walt Disney World Resort is now available in print and can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and  CreateSpace. (Kindle version also available!) Come, think outside the textbook and stretch the walls of your home classroom with Walt Disney entertainment!

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• Disney to Back to School App Sale Happening Now! (chipandco.com)

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