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.
- 去公司应聘HSK 4
A Job Interview
A month after graduating, Amine sits down with a manager who has read his file. Four years of Chinese, four languages, two years of interpreting for a travel company; then the harder questions — his best quality, his worst, overtime, business trips — and finally the salary, the timetable for a decision and a word of reassurance. Twenty-four turns inside HSK 1–4.
DialogueWork5 min read- characters
- 443
- sentences
- 24
- Listen
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- 站着开的会HSK 5
A Meeting Held Standing Up
Every Monday at an advertising agency the meeting ran from nine to past eleven and settled nothing. A new manager says nothing at her first one, takes away the chairs and leaves three rules on the table: fifteen minutes, know your problem before you speak, end with who does what by when. Then an objection from the design department, and a compromise. About 550 characters inside HSK 1–5.
StoryWork7 min read- characters
- 606
- sentences
- 16
- Listen
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- 在家办公，是好是坏HSK 6
Working from Home: Gains and Losses
A feature on working from home. Supporters count the two hours of commuting saved, the quiet for focused work and the wider pool of hires; critics list three problems: blurred hours, fewer chance conversations that new staff learn from, and managers who compensate with constant reporting. Companies settle on two fixed office days, and a researcher argues the real variable is how people are managed. About 850 characters inside HSK 1–6.
NewsWork10 min read- characters
- 930
- sentences
- 25
- Listen
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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.
Graded stories and dialogues
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.