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.
- 公园里的星期六HSK 3
Un samedi au parc
Un père raconte un samedi : la famille se rend au parc à vélo, les vieux messieurs chantent sous les arbres, son fils de six ans veut savoir le nom d’un oiseau que personne ne reconnaît, et l’on pique-nique à l’ombre. À trois heures, le vent se lève et le ciel se couvre — mais sa femme, comme toujours, a pris un parapluie. Dix-huit phrases en HSK 1–3.
RécitDaily life3 min de lecture- caractères
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- 新来的邻居HSK 3
La nouvelle voisine
Une grand-mère de plus de soixante-dix ans emménage à côté, et la musique de six heures sur laquelle elle fait sa gymnastique n’enchante pas un étudiant qui se couche tard. Un matin, ils se rencontrent enfin : elle baisse le son, il se couche plus tôt — et le jour où il reste enfermé dehors sous la pluie, c’est sa porte à elle qui s’ouvre. Vingt-deux phrases en HSK 1–3.
RécitDaily life5 min de lecture- caractères
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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.