Graded stories and dialogues
Short Chinese texts written to a level, not cut down from a newspaper. Each one shows its level, topic, length, reading time and audio before you open it, so you can pick a text you will actually finish.
- 医院在哪儿？HSK 1
Par où est l’hôpital ?
Un ami d’Amine a été conduit à l’hôpital et Amine ne connaît pas encore la ville. Il arrête un passant, découvre que l’hôpital se trouve derrière la boutique et non devant, s’entend conseiller de prendre un taxi et en aperçoit un à quelques pas. Seize répliques courtes, chaque mot tiré de la liste HSK 1.
DialogueTransport1 min de lecture- caractères
- 134
- phrases
- 16
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- 买水果HSK 1
Acheter des fruits à la boutique
Une course du samedi racontée à la troisième personne : Xiaoming va à la boutique de fruits avec sa mère, choisit les pommes qui lui plaisent, entend le prix et en mange une l’après-midi. Quatorze phrases, chaque mot tiré de la liste HSK 1.
RécitShopping2 min de lecture- caractères
- 176
- phrases
- 14
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Audio duration is shown once a recording or a generated track has been attached to the text. A dash means the audio has not been produced yet — sentence-level playback still works inside the reader.
Written to a level
Each text is attached to a curriculum level and written to that level’s vocabulary ceiling. A handful of concrete nouns the scene cannot be written without — a passport, a dormitory, a bank card — sit above it, and the text glosses them where they appear.
Read, then check
Pinyin and translation are switched on by default and can be switched off per text. Read once with support, once without, and you will notice what you actually know.
Every sentence has audio
Sentence-level playback means you can listen, repeat and compare a single line instead of restarting a five-minute track.
Histoires et dialogues gradués
Pick a text where you already know most of the words
Reading improves fastest slightly below the edge of your ability, not at it. Roughly one unknown word in twenty is where most learners keep going; one in ten is where most stop.
Once you are signed in, each text also shows the share of its words you have already met in your own study history, so the choice stops being guesswork. Words you tap in the reader can be sent straight to your review queue.
How to use one text three times
- Listen first, eyes closed. Play the sentences in order and see how much survives without the characters in front of you.
- Read with support. Pinyin and translation on. Tap anything unfamiliar; the definition opens without leaving the page.
- Read again with both off. Then answer the comprehension questions. What you miss is what to study next.