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.
- 买火车票HSK 2
Buying a Train Ticket
Amine wants to be in Shanghai tomorrow. At the ticket window he compares the eight o’clock train with the eleven o’clock one — five hours against four, three hundred yuan against five hundred and fifty — picks the cheap slow one, hands over his passport and learns which gate to use. Eighteen turns of a real errand, built from HSK 1–2 words.
对话Transport阅读 2 分钟- 汉字
- 203
- 句子
- 18
- 收听
- —
- 大学的第一天HSK 2
The First Day at University
Amine has just arrived from Morocco and walks into the university office to report in. Over eighteen short turns he greets the member of staff, gives his name, hands over his passport, writes his name on the form, learns his room number and asks the way to the dormitory — the entire errand handled with HSK 1–2 words.
对话University阅读 2 分钟- 汉字
- 182
- 句子
- 18
- 收听
- —
- 我的汉语老师HSK 2
My Chinese Teacher
A student remembers the first months of class, when the teacher’s Chinese was still a wall of sound. Wang laoshi slowed down, told the class to ask whenever they did not follow, and one afternoon wrote out the characters he could not read. By exam time he could answer every question — and she told him he was ready to talk to Chinese people. Sixteen sentences within HSK 1–2.
故事School阅读 3 分钟- 汉字
- 241
- 句子
- 16
- 收听
- —
- 我在北京的第一个星期HSK 2
My First Week in Beijing
Amine tells the week day by day: the flight lands on Monday, class starts on Tuesday, lunch is mutton and rice with classmates from England and Japan, on Wednesday he gets lost and a stranger puts him on the number three bus, and on Thursday his mother asks over the phone whether he is homesick. Eighteen sentences, every word from HSK 1–2.
故事University阅读 4 分钟- 汉字
- 368
- 句子
- 18
- 收听
- —
- 在饭馆点菜HSK 2
Ordering in a Restaurant
Amine takes his classmate Xiaomei out to eat. He asks the waiter what the house does well, orders the mutton, listens to Xiaomei order fish instead, praises the food, settles the bill with a hundred-yuan note and gets his change. Eighteen turns of a complete meal, built from HSK 1–2 words.
对话Food阅读 2 分钟- 汉字
- 174
- 句子
- 18
- 收听
- —
- 坐出租车去机场HSK 2
A Taxi to the Airport
Amine has a ten o’clock flight and two hours to spare. He agrees the fare, asks the driver to hurry, and the ride turns into a conversation: twenty years behind the wheel in Beijing, what the driver makes of the city, where his passenger is from — and a compliment on Amine’s Chinese. Sixteen turns within HSK 1–2.
对话Transport阅读 2 分钟- 汉字
- 170
- 句子
- 16
- 收听
- —
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.
分级故事与对话
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.