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
19 Aug 2026

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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.
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

11K reviews
P B
4 February 2026
I'm going to have to decrease my review from 5 to 3 stars, as the flashcard selection process in the app is fundamentally broken, and hasn't been fixed in countless updates. It will now always prefer the most recent words from the last 2 - 3 texts read, repeating them over and over, while none of the words from earlier texts ever resurface. Given the price of this app has increased over the years, for one of the main functions to not work anymore is unacceptable.
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Nat Titman
3 October 2020
An excellent app for learning Chinese through reading, a good bridge to being able to read web novels aimed at native speakers. I've taken a star off my rating because I can't fully turn pinyin off, only hide it. This still spaces out characters as if pinyin is present so that there are gaps in the middle of words when adjoining characters have long pinyin equivalents. Font sizes do help a little. You're also limited in what counts as a word for saving to flash cards in quite frustrating ways.
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Diana Aldean
6 January 2021
I love this app! I find it great to practice listening and reading! It also has increase my vocabulary so when I'm in Chinese lessons I can recognise some of the words I have learned from this stories. It has so many free stories with great tone when read it (not a robot sound). What is more you can easily check the meaning in every word and you can cover the pinying to practice characters too. One of the best apps!
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