Du Chinese - Read Mandarin 读中文

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About this app

With Du Chinese, you can find free lessons to help you practice Chinese anywhere, anytime. Du Chinese is a graded reading app that provides extensive reading practice to all levels of Mandarin Chinese language learners.

As you read Chinese articles and stories, you can access pinyin, audio, and translations with just a tap. Our app also offers a built-in dictionary, reliable translations, grammar explanations, and flashcards to complement your Mandarin Chinese learning journey.

Beginner, intermediate, or advanced, you will find articles and stories that will match your level and improve your Chinese reading and listening skills.

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.

Features
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese
• Markings to indicate HSK level, pinyin, and tones
• Detailed grammar explanations
• Recommended lessons based on your reading history
• Written and narrated by native Mandarin Chinese 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 Chinese audio to master your tones
▶ Summarize and rewrite stories to practice writing characters
▶ Memorize characters and new words/vocabulary with flashcards.

Download the Du Chinese app and start reading Chinese today!

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 Chinese 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 Chinese courses about life in China, advanced Chinese stories about Chinese 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.

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 Chinese 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 app is SOOO helpful. I grew up with Chinese at home, and had completely given up on learning how to read. I started using this app this year and could not remember how to read anything. After reading just a few minutes a day, and I have reached upper intermediate level. The app is very well made (lots of useful features), with a lot of stories that also teach you about Chinese culture!

Tons of stuff for beginners. They have series that are good for going from beginner to intermediate but they abruptly stop right as your hooked in the story. Gets you to HSK 2 and some HSK 3. But after that you're left reading boring books or long form articles. More daily conversation like "Ben's life in China" would go a long way to making this app great and extremely useful for life and conversation in Chinese.

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!