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
What the Brain Does While We Sleep
A short explanatory text in the style of the HSK 5 reading paper. Sleep is not the brain switching off: it sorts the day’s memories, keeping what is useful, and clears away substances that build up while we are awake. One experiment with two groups of students, the advice against staying up to revise, seven to eight hours for adults, and why quality counts as much as length. About 540 characters inside HSK 1–5.
故事Science阅读 7 分钟- 汉字
- 602
- 句子
- 20
- 收听
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- 忘记也是一种能力HSK 6
Forgetting Is Also a Skill
A science essay on forgetting. A nineteenth-century German psychologist memorised meaningless letter strings and found that forgetting is fast at first and then slows; the curve still shapes revision apps. Forgetting keeps the useful from being buried, as the people who forget almost nothing can testify, and spaced revision tells the brain what to keep. About 820 characters inside HSK 1–6.
故事Science阅读 10 分钟- 汉字
- 899
- 句子
- 25
- 收听
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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.