Du Chinese - Read Mandarin 读中文

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About this app

Du Chinese is a reading and listening app that helps you learn Chinese naturally, at your own pace. Whether you're a beginner or studying for HSK, learn Chinese while building confidence and vocabulary, one story at a time.

Find free lessons to help you learn Chinese with our wide variety of articles, stories, and courses designed for Chinese learners from beginner to advanced levels. Practice Chinese with pinyin, native audio, and translations with just a tap. Easily access our built-in dictionary, grammar explanations, and flashcards to help you learn Chinese more efficiently.

Easily maintain your Mandarin proficiency with regular reading and listening practice. With our diverse range of content, from everyday dialogues to original stories, our readings reinforce and strengthen your Chinese fluency.

Beginner, intermediate, or advanced, you will find readings that match your level and improve your Mandarin reading and listening skills.

Features
• Simplified and Traditional Characters
• Markings to indicate HSK level, pinyin, and tones
• Detailed grammar explanations
• Recommended lessons based on your reading history
• Written and narrated by native Mandarin speakers
• Audio synchronized with text
• Sentence translations and context-dependent word translations
• Save and review words using an intuitive SRS flashcard system
• New lessons added every weekday
• Pleco, Hack Chinese and Skritter dictionary integration
• Progress Monitoring

Learn Chinese for free or upgrade to unlock access to:
• 3000+ articles, stories, and courses to explore
• Offline study for learning Mandarin on-the-go
• Audiobook mode for immersive listening experiences

Practice your reading, listening, speaking, and writing all with one app.
▶ Reliable and engaging stories that will keep you reading Chinese
▶ Listen and repeat with native Mandarin audio to master your tones
▶ Summarize and rewrite stories to practice writing characters
▶ Memorize characters and new words/vocabulary with flashcards.

Beginner Chinese learners can start from ni hao and work their way up through our beginner courses that will take them through HSK 1 and HSK 2. Start off with pinyin and hide it when you’re ready to learn traditional or simplified characters.

Intermediate Chinese learners (HSK 3 and HSK 4) can begin reading more elaborate stories while learning to use Mandarin grammar in context. Hide pinyin or use difficult words only to show pinyin for all words above your level.

Advanced Chinese learners (HSK 5 and HSK 6) will enjoy our short stories adapted from Chinese folktales and our collections on the Tang Dynasty, Han Dynasty, and more! Our app also covers topics like everyday life in China, funny stories, business Mandarin, latest trends in China, and Chinese history.

Read Chinese at your Level:
Whether it’s our beginner courses about life in China, advanced Chinese stories about history, or snippets of daily conversation, you can find material from HSK 1-6 to practice reading Chinese! When you stumble on a word you can check our Chinese dictionary with translations or jump to Pleco for more definitions.

Save Time:
The Du Chinese app offers a built-in dictionary, pinyin, translations, and professional audio. Take control of your learning experience with our integrations with popular apps like Pleco, Skritter, and Hack Chinese.

Improve Your Tones:
Mastering tones can be very difficult, especially when you’re trying to mimic a robot! That’s why we have professional recordings by native speakers for every lesson. So when you say hello in Mandarin, people will understand your 你好.

Expand Your Vocabulary:
By learning Mandarin as you read, you’ll pick up on the most useful words naturally. As you read, save new words and practice them later to build your vocabulary. Our interactive flashcards make it easy or sync them with Skritter or Hack Chinese.

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Ratings and reviews

This is a very good app. The storytelling, for me, is the easiest way to learn. It is immersive, with interesting non-banal stories that reinforce culture and grammar. Some of the stories are quite witty. But most importantly, you can use your finger to highlight words and save them for later for flashcards, see the meaning, see the PinYin, and pause the reading. After reading for 6 to 10 times, you begin to understand the passage. I also like that you can slow it down.

Great app! Here is how I have made the most of it so far. I drill hsk 1 characters so that I am familiar with common words, then I read the passages (like the cat story), listen to voice over, add the new words to vocabulary, drill those, rinse and repeat until I can read the passage as if I was reading it to a child. I am only utilizing the free area but can imagine the depth of understanding if these stories continue in a structured way. Overall, well put together!

The passages all have hand-made translations with synced audio to each word. The knockout feature is that you can highlight a word, and the flashcard will be created with the sentence as context--Incredible! The only problem for me is the walled garden with regards to flashcards. They support export to, but not import from Anki, and no automatic syncing. It's too much effort/risk for me to migrate to a proprietary app, especially when there is no way to add cards outside of their passages.

What's new

This update includes stability improvements. Happy learning!