TCB | Read Chinese to Learn

The Chairman's Bao Ltd.

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About this app

The Chairman’s Bao (TCB) features 9,500+ news-based lessons to improve Chinese reading, with more published daily. Learn Chinese with beginner, intermediate and advanced level news to practice and improve fluency.

🚀 New Release in October 2023! Brand new app release with improved user interface, new features and greater study personalization options!

Key Platform Features:

1. 9,500+ News-Based Lessons
2. Brand New User Interface
3. New: Study Offline Mode: Learn on the go!
4. Test Your Skills: Reading and listening exercises for each lesson
5. One-Tap Dictionary: Look up and save any word
6. Retention Tools: Track vocabulary study and lesson progress
7. Stroke Order & Chinese Writing: View and practice stroke order to improve writing
8. Cross-Platform Study: App and website
9. Lesson Package: Explore keywords, grammar explanations, idioms, and proper nouns for each lesson.
10. Bonus Content: Chinese myths and legends, beginner video series and more!

Free sample lesson at each level of proficiency. TCB offers a Premium service for paid subscribers.

Terms of Use: https://www.thechairmansbao.com/terms-of-use/
Privacy Policy: https://www.thechairmansbao.com/privacy-policy/

Embark on your Chinese language learning journey with The Chairman’s Bao. Download now and join a community of Chinese language enthusiasts!

Ratings and reviews

Great app. I love using this app to listen to native speakers read real news articals. You can click on words while you listen to see translations. There are 6 skill levels. I'm studying levels 1 and 2. Sometimes 3. They adapt the articles in the lower skill levels accordingly. Each higher level gets harder (more descriptions and faster pronunciations). New articals come out every day so there is no lack of interesting news articles to study from. They are also quick to respond to suggestions.

Great app for learning to read Chinese! Includes audio and can click for definitions. One bug I've noticed though is if using traditional characters, sometimes the title of the article doesn't show up. But if you switch to simplified, you can see the title in simplified characters. It seems to happen randomly though. Also wish you could click on characters in the title for definition and pronunciation. But all and all, great tool for learning to read Chinese.

Some ways it's great (lots of articles) but it needs work. It's buggy, there's a button that looks like it's to speak a word (the ear) that does nothing and it'd be super helpful. Sometimes lessons hang and don't load until you quit and close the app and reload it. And the definitions are frequently bad. Like "towards" is defined as "a Chinese surname" or the English definition of a word is... The word in Chinese. Be nice if you could modify the dictionary.

What's new

Bug fixes