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Du Chinese: Chinese reading and listening practice
By Irfan Rosli
News editor
- Graded readings from beginner to advanced, free to read
- Pinyin and native-speaker audio alongside each reading
- Instant translations and a built-in Chinese dictionary
- Grammar explanations and flashcards for review
- Articles, stories and courses for learners preparing for HSK
What Du Chinese is for
Du Chinese is a reading and listening app for learning Mandarin. Its library holds articles, stories and courses that the listing says were written and translated by teachers, pitched at levels from beginner to advanced. The listing says the readings are free.
The listing presents it for people starting out as well as people studying for the HSK exams. Anyone who wants steady reading and listening practice, rather than a lesson track, would be the intended reader.
Reading and listening with pinyin and audio
Each reading comes with pinyin, so you can sound out characters you do not yet know. Native-speaker audio lets you hear the text as well as read it. Instant translations give you the meaning of a passage without leaving it.
The content runs from everyday conversations to original stories and pieces on Chinese culture. Using these together, a reader can work on reading and listening in the same session.
Dictionary, grammar and flashcards
A built-in Chinese dictionary lets you look up words while you read. The grammar explanations cover points that come up in the readings, so you can check a sentence structure you are unsure of.
Flashcards are included for reviewing vocabulary. The listing presents these three tools as ways to study the same material more efficiently.
Building a regular reading habit
The listing describes the approach as regular reading and listening practice, with readings matched to your level. The library is described as growing, so new material keeps arriving.
Because the content covers both conversation and longer stories, the same app can serve short daily practice and longer reading sessions.
What's new
About this APK
The build we hold is Du Chinese: Read&Learn Chinese 3.6.1 (APKS split bundle) for Android 5.0 and up.
- Version
- 3.6.1
- 4178
- Requires Android
- 5.0+
- Package ID
- org.sinamon.duchinese
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Flagged by 2 of 64 engines
- Permissions
- 15 declared
- Signed by
- CN=Peter Askelof, O=Sinamon
- Certificate SHA-256
- c4b745df84266919c0af82b6f19bd8a6444549d27fa33243c180889cd30697e4
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