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.
对话Work阅读 5 分钟- 汉字
- 443
- 句子
- 24
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- 为钱的事儿HSK 4
An Argument About Money
Eight hundred yuan lent two months ago, a plane ticket that has to be paid for, and two friends who each remember the conversation differently. It gets tense — “why are you only telling me now?” — before David works out that buying lunch twice does not add up to eight hundred, and they agree on half now, half on payday, and writing it down next time. Twenty-four turns inside HSK 1–4.
对话Money阅读 4 分钟- 汉字
- 400
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- 24
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- 城市新闻：地铁三号线昨天开始使用HSK 4
City News: Metro Line 3 Opened Yesterday
A city-desk report on the metro line that opened at six yesterday morning: eighteen stations, twenty-six kilometres, an hour by bus cut to thirty minutes. A driver who has spent ten years stuck in traffic on that road, a teacher whose pupils used to take two buses, and a resident of thirty years who is not sure a busier neighbourhood is good news. Twenty-four sentences inside HSK 1–4.
新闻City life阅读 6 分钟- 汉字
- 576
- 句子
- 24
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- 搬进宿舍HSK 4
Moving Into the Dormitory
Amine arrives at room 305 with two suitcases and a list of questions. The dormitory supervisor hands him two keys and answers them one by one: air conditioning yes, laundry on the ground floor, wi-fi password behind the door, no cooking in the rooms, doors locked at half past eleven. The last piece of news is the best — his roommate is Chinese. Twenty turns within HSK 1–4.
对话University阅读 4 分钟- 汉字
- 395
- 句子
- 20
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- 我为什么开始学汉语HSK 4
Why I Started Learning Chinese
Amine answers the question he is asked most often. It began with a Chinese shopkeeper on an old street in Casablanca who made him repeat a few words at a time, went on through a film he understood not one line of, and survived the years when the characters would not stay in his head. The last scene returns to the shop. Twenty-five sentences inside HSK 1–4.
故事Language learning阅读 6 分钟- 汉字
- 579
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- 25
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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.
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.