Practice

Reading

Reading comes from three different sources. The daily text is written specifically for you, built around words from your dictionary. The news is real Chinese material sorted by level. Your own texts are whatever you bring in. They share one thing: in any of them you can tap a word and break it down without leaving the page.

The daily text

A short text assembled around words you are already learning. The point is to meet a familiar word inside connected speech rather than on a card: that is how it stops being a translation and becomes a word.

It does not appear straight away: while your dictionary is small there is nothing to build from. Build a basic dictionary through ordinary sessions and the texts follow on their own.

News

Real Chinese material sorted into level bands. Unlike the daily text it is not tailored to your dictionary — this is living language as it comes, and unfamiliar words are guaranteed.

That is exactly its value: texts built from your dictionary drill what you know, while news shows you what you do not. Alternating between them works well.

Your own texts

Any Chinese text can be saved and read with the same markup: words break down on tap and can be added to your dictionary. Handy when there is specific material you need to work through.

What to do if…

The daily text does not appear

Your dictionary is most likely still too small for a text to be assembled. Study for a few days. On the free plan the number of texts is capped.

The news has too many unfamiliar words

That is expected — it is unadapted language. Take a band one level lower, or start with the daily text: built around the familiar, it reads noticeably more easily.

I do not want to add words from a text to my dictionary

You do not have to: tapping a word to break it down adds it nowhere. Only what you deliberately add ends up in your dictionary.