Tao Te Ching by Laozi app for iPhone and iPad

Master Chinese characters by reading famous books and having fun! Learn Chinese then you can communicate with one more billion people in the world. These series are great reference apps for your Chinese reading assignments.

Taoism(or Daoism) is a fundamental part of Chinese culture. Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, Dao De Jing, or just Laozi (Traditional Chinese: 道德經; Simplified Chinese: 道德经;), has a great influence on Chinese culture in many ways such as Legalism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Traditional Chinese medicine and profound martial arts theory. Now you can learn the original text word for word, or cite a well-known quotation to your new Chinese friends, and you have a common language with them. By reading classic literature using this app, you can not only learn Chinese words but also get a deeper insight into the heart of Chinese culture at the same time.

Knowing stroke orders is the essential training to write and memorize Chinese characters. For beginner, it is a time-consuming process to get started. Besides, there are two different writing systems along the way: Traditional Chinese (old form) and Simplified Chinese (new form). Even worse, there is only a slight difference between twenty normal variants and wrong characters. This app can help you.

-FEATURE

-No need for typing or copying and pasting. Just by touching you can look into the details of any single character.
-Over two hundred stroke order animations are embedded in this app, and you can find almost every characters animations through carefully selected websites.
-Switch back and forth between Traditional Chinese (old form) and Simplified Chinese (new form) anytime.
-Adjust font size until you are comfortable.
-Control speed of stroke order animations when available.
-Animations are similar to Chinese calligraphy on Xuan paper.
-Compare different writing styles (normal variants) of Traditional or Simplified Chinese side by side.
-Learn phonetic systems and listen the pronunciation from web dictionaries.
-Get to know every aspect of a character including usages, phrases, sentences, idioms from six different web dictionaries.
-Find English translation pdf file on the first screen.
-Find English translation of each section on the second screen.