Best vocab (not writing) app

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Forvo

Forvo: the largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world, now with translations.

I use both. I make a lot of my own cards so I get to focus on the vocab I want. Generally find a word I want to learn, use https://forvo.com/ to find native audio for it, then use https://tatoeba.org/ to find sentences use that word. Once you get a bit of practise it's pretty quick to make a word note, then make 2 or 3 sentence notes for it*. However I do use some pre-made decks like this set of sentence decks for each HSK level with native audio: https://ankiweb.net/shared/byauthor/933449107.

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Anki

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
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For now however my preference is Anki (note there are a few copycats called like AnkiApp etc which you should avoid though). Anki is a spaced repetition app (with both desktop/Android/iOS version that you can sync between) that's perfect for retaining knowledge. It's not a pre-made course like HelloChinese etc though. Anki is just a generic study tool. But it lets you take works/sentences/knowledge from anywhere and retain it. It takes work to build your decks, but it doesn't limit you to one source. I've used Duolingo, hello Chinese, ChinesePod, Pimslur etc and bits from all of them end up in my Mandrin deck in Anki so I can study from ALL sources at once. It's great.

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