OpenChinese

Learn Chinese Your Way

Three ways in: listen to stories, drill the basics, or review what you know

A community-built space for Chinese learners. Read and listen to clear, enjoyable stories, work through the HSK 1 vocabulary one short lesson at a time, and keep it with flashcards that know when each word is about to slip — then bring what puzzles you to the forum.

听

Voice Stories

Nineteen narrated stories with pinyin, English, per-word glosses and sentence-by-sentence audio. Read along at your own speed.

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学

Gamified Lessons

The complete HSK 1 vocabulary — all 150 words — as short lessons with matching, listening and sentence building. Nothing to lose for a wrong answer: it simply comes back later.

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字

Flashcards

The same HSK 1 words, scheduled by spaced repetition — each one comes back just before you would forget it, and the deck remembers how well you know every character.

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论

Forum

Ask what a sentence is doing, post a correction, or say which tone keeps defeating you. Anyone can read the threads; signing in lets you start one or answer somebody else's.

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