A mobile environment for Chinese language learning

Due to the diversity of mobile device and wireless network's progress, mobile learning has become a possible and convenient way to support learning activity, whether it was in or out of classroom. There have been some researches showed that using such devices in the course can improve learners' performance and arouse their motivation, cases like bird watching, plant observing, museum navigation and tourist guidance. Chinese language was considered difficult to learn all the time, because of its complicated shape, different pronunciations and multiple meanings. In this paper, we propose a system that works on PDA for foreigners to learn Chinese. The design concept derived from geographic information sharing, people will use PDA to explore the city they live, and gradually find virtual messages around them, thus enhance their Chinese communication skill.