Learn Chinese: from nǐ hǎo to news articles. One app.
A Chinese learning app with spaced repetition that builds lessons from your vocabulary.
* 64,000 Chinese + 232,000 Japanese sentences from Tatoeba
How Your Dragon Trains You
Your phrases build each Dragon lesson. Pronunciation, listening, stories, conversation practice, and optional handwriting. Learn in context, not in isolation.
Import your vocabulary
Bring your vocabulary from Anki or Skritter, generate topic-based lists, or study our textbooks.
Pronounce sample sentences
Pronounce real sentences selected from 296,000+ created by native-speaker, matched to your vocabulary and level.
Read illustrated stories
Read and listen to stories at your level with your vocabulary. HSK-leveled with built-in popup dictionary, natural audio and read-along highlighting.
Practice real-world conversations
Practice real conversations with 50+ scenarios at 5 difficulty levels, from ordering hotpot in Beijing to acing a job interview, all using your vocabulary.
Get writing feedback
Write sentences using your vocabulary and get feedback on word choice and cultural context, with grammar patterns linked to the best published resources.
Perfect your pronunciation
Get instant pronunciation feedback. Free tier uses your device's speech recognition. Pro unlocks Azure phoneme-level scoring with detailed drills and articulation guides.
- ✓Sentence mining: automatically find related example sentences
- ✓Visual waveforms show your pronunciation vs. native speaker
- ✓Mirror practice: watch yourself speak to check mouth position
- ✓Articulation tips with jaw, tongue, and lip diagrams
- ✓Unlimited free practice
- ✓ProPhoneme-level scoring for accuracy, fluency, and completeness
Stories that follow your journey
Read 4,000+ illustrated stories with karaoke-style highlighting: text lights up as audio plays. Or generate custom illustrated stories from your own vocabulary.
- ✓Read-along highlighting: text lights up word by word as audio plays
- ✓Listen to native speaker audio for every story
- ✓HSK-colored (HSK 2.0 and 3.0) vocabulary (see difficulty at a glance)
- ✓ProGenerate 15 custom stories per day
Master characters stroke by stroke
Learn to write 9,000+ Chinese characters with stroke-by-stroke guidance. Free to study.
- ✓Animated & narrated stroke order for correct character formation
- ✓9,000+ characters with stroke order and radical breakdown
- ✓Character decomposition shows radicals and meaning components
- ✓ProSRS writing practice to test yourself
Practice real-world conversations
Choose from 50+ scenarios across 7+ languages. Order hotpot in Beijing, negotiate at the Silk Market, handle a Taipei night market, or ace a job interview. Five difficulty levels, from basic phrases to handling mix-ups.
- ✓50+ scenarios at 5 levels, from Baby Dragon to Master Dragon
- ✓Culture-specific: Beijing hotpot, Silk Market, TCM doctor, and more
- ✓5 Dragon personalities change how each scenario plays
- ✓7+ languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, English
Play memory building games
Crossword puzzles, word chains, tone trainers, and matching games. Many pull from the words you are studying.
- ✓Crossword puzzles generated from your vocabulary at your HSK level
- ✓Jielong (接龙): build word chains from character compounds
- ✓Tone trainer: practice tone discrimination with instant feedback
- ✓Memory match: paired word recall from your study list