Du Chinese – Read Mandarin 读中‪文‬ 4+

Beautifully made app. I’ve used it most days (10-60mins) for 26 months. They have taken everything lingQ does and done it 10 times better (I still love lingQ but there is a huge gulf in quality between the 2 if your learning chinese). The app is highly organised, the voice acting is compelling and engaging, the stories are emotive and it’s easy and quick to use. It feels to me like no corners have been cut. The synchronisation between the voice and the text is genuinely flawless. The features are perfectly done (voice speed, pinyin, translation etc). The are some fantastic extra bits and pieces like the listen only option. It’s almost astonishing that this app is not synonymous with learning chinese for english speakers. I would even go as far as saying this app is a reason to pick chinese over something else. It shows that even if you manage to make something absolutely brilliant, people still may take a while to catch on. This app should be the first thing you hear about when you start learning chinese.

This app is everything a Chinese learner would dreams of!

At the beginning stage and only know a 100 characters, or even less….?
Or are you at more of an advanced stage having 1000s in the bank? Then not to worry this app caters to all the levels!!

A brilliantly put together graded reading app with thousands of stories that are really useful teaching you phrases and words you can use daily. Ranging from having a stomach ache, to meeting a friend, to taking a taxi, to travelling etc etc.

The flash card system with the spaced repetition is sublime. Every time you spot a new character or word you just add it and over time it gets incorporated into your memory!!!

This has helped me fast track my mandarin
learning 500+ characters in the space of a month, all so effortlessly (well effortlessly is a relative term here of course)

I genuinely can’t wait to see how much progress I make by continuing on!!

It’s totally worth the price as they put so much effort into it, making voice recordings for all the stories (not just monotonous AI generated voice) which gives it more life!

Thank you so much for creating such a marvellous app and I hope you can keep up and continue to make this app even better than it already is!!

I think this is the best executed app for learning Chinese. It is super easy to view lessons, to translate words while reading, to show/hide Pinyin, to listen to the text or read it. It is really great.

The only thing I don't like is that each lesson is on its own. There are very few lessons which are like stories or expand on the same topic. I would really love to see more lessons which are linked together - e.g. stories and series. Reading stories and books truly improves the reader's skills. If they put me off these then I believe it would make it the best app in the world for learning Chinese.