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.
- 睡觉的时候，大脑在做什么HSK 5
Ce que fait le cerveau pendant le sommeil
Un court texte explicatif dans le style de l’épreuve de lecture du HSK 5. Dormir, ce n’est pas éteindre le cerveau : il trie les souvenirs de la journée pour garder l’utile, et évacue des substances qui s’accumulent pendant la veille. Une expérience sur deux groupes d’étudiants, un conseil contre les révisions de nuit, sept à huit heures pour un adulte, et pourquoi la qualité compte autant que la durée. Environ 540 caractères en HSK 1–5.
RécitScience7 min de lecture- caractères
- 602
- phrases
- 20
- Écouter
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- 忘记也是一种能力HSK 6
Oublier est aussi une compétence
Un essai scientifique sur l’oubli. Au XIXe siècle, un psychologue allemand apprend par cœur des suites de lettres sans signification et découvre que l’on oublie vite au début, puis de plus en plus lentement ; cette courbe guide encore les applications de révision. L’oubli empêche l’utile d’être enseveli, comme en témoignent ceux qui n’oublient presque rien, et des révisions espacées indiquent au cerveau ce qu’il faut garder. Environ 820 caractères en HSK 1–6.
RécitScience10 min de lecture- caractères
- 899
- phrases
- 25
- Écouter
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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.