Du Chinese: Read&Learn Chinese

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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.

Learn Chinese with free readings through a growing library of articles, stories, and courses written and translated by real teachers, designed for learners from beginner to advanced levels. Practice the Chinese language with pinyin, native audio, and instant translations. Use the built-in Chinese dictionary, grammar explanations, and flashcards to learn more efficiently.

Build your Mandarin proficiency with regular reading and listening practice. From everyday conversations to original stories and Chinese culture, our content helps strengthen your Chinese vocabulary and develop fluency naturally.

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
• HSK level markings, pinyin, and tone colors
• Detailed Chinese grammar explanations
• Recommended lessons based on your reading history
• Written and narrated by native Mandarin speakers
• Audio synchronized with text
• Sentence translations and context-based word translations
• Save and review words with an intuitive SRS flashcard system
• New lessons added every weekday
• Pleco, Hack Chinese, Hanping, and Skritter integration
• Progress tracking

Learn Chinese for free or upgrade to unlock access to:
• 3000+ articles, stories, and courses to explore
• Offline study to learn Chinese 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. Use pinyin only for difficult words or hide it entirely as your confidence grows.

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 stories about history, or daily conversations, you can find material from HSK 1-6 to practice reading Chinese! When you stumble on a word you can check our 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, Hanping, 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:
Learn Chinese as you read to pick up 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.

Privacy policy: https://www.duchinese.net/privacy_policy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.duchinese.net/tos.html
Read Mandarin at any level, effortlessly.
Updated on
Aug 20, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    App activity
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

10.9K reviews
A Google user
February 1, 2019
Great app. It's really easy and convenient to use, content for all levels of Chinese is available including translations to English. The word by word translation and HSK level indicator is very helpful. While a few free texts are available, you'll need to purchase a subscription for more. There's a generous student discount (50%) available, make sure to ask for it if you're a student!
6 people found this review helpful
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Steffen Martens (smartens)
February 17, 2021
This app has compelling comprehensible input to learn Chinese. Really awesome 🐉! I did buy the 1 year subscription and no regrets :). But I have one feature request. Instead of saving single characters/words for the vocabulary trainer it would be much better if one can save a whole phrase/sentence (sentence mining). With that the downloaded audio and the translation could be reused in the vocabulary trainer instead solely to rely on a speech synthesizer and dictionary.
20 people found this review helpful
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Sinamon
February 18, 2021
Hi Steffen, thank you for your feedback! We plan to add a study mode where you are shown the entire sentence with the saved word highlighted, instead of just the word in isolation. Perhaps this can be useful in your case? We like your suggestion of playing the sentence audio with the flashcard, and will keep it in mind for future updates!
John O
July 19, 2026
I like this app a lot, but I feel like it's becoming increasingly cluttered with things nobody really needs. It takes more and more 'clicks' to find what I'm looking for. I think some older functions no longer work as well as they used to, as well. It feels like it's more about the developers 'doing something' than making the app easier to use or easier to want to use.
5 people found this review helpful
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Sinamon
July 19, 2026
Thanks for the honest feedback! We’d really like to understand which parts of the app now feel more cluttered or harder to navigate. If you’re open to sharing more, please email us at support@duchinese.net

What’s new

Learn at your own pace with new stroke order animations and more listening speed options!