Video guides
6 short walkthroughs from this section, about 10 minutes in all. Each has its own page, with its key moments and the written guide beside it.
Using the dictionarySearch 21,000+ entries by character, pinyin or meaning, and read everything a single entry holds.Grammar pointsHow a grammar point is laid out — pattern, examples, common mistakes — and how to drill it.HSK lessonsThe shape of a lesson — podcast, dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and practice — and how to work through one.Units and examsHow lessons group into units, what the unit exam covers, and the full-length mock tests.Flashcards and spaced repetitionHow the review schedule decides what you see today, and why skipping days costs more than it saves.Import your deck from Anki or PlecoBring the words you already study — from Pleco, Anki or a list — into your flashcards, and take them out again.Dragon DailyA daily edition — a cultural story, the word of the day, a podcast and a quiz — and how to get it by email.Focus modeOne section at a time, on a quiet backdrop, with your evidence and an AI tutor a tap away.Listening practiceGraded listening exercises by HSK level, with transcripts you can reveal when you are ready.Reading practiceGraded passages with tap-to-define characters and comprehension questions at the end.Writing and stroke orderTrace characters in the right order, then photograph what you wrote on paper for AI feedback.Speaking and your AI tutorPronunciation practice, free conversation with Jason, and what your microphone is and is not used for.Specialized modulesBusiness, diplomatic, academic and other vocabularies, for when general HSK is not the goal.Progress, XP and checkpointsWhat earns XP, what a checkpoint is, and how the percentages on every page are calculated.Achievements and streaksHow streaks are counted, what breaks them, and the badges worth going after.Your study planHow the calendar builds a week around your goals and available time, and how to change it.The Learning LabSeven facets of knowing a word, and why one number cannot describe your Chinese.Your activity, and why a figure is withheldThe activity room, the six findings the Lab will raise, the five optional cognitive tasks — and why one chart works while the next says "not enough yet".The culture libraryEighty long articles across eight subjects — the reference knowledge that stops being optional somewhere around the intermediate plateau.The Chinese periodic tableAll 118 elements, and the four radicals that tell you what kind of substance a character names before you can read it.The four Chinese calendarsTwo calendars run at once and two cycles sit over the second — which is why a festival moves every year and somebody has two birthdays.Names, surnames and numbersA hundred surname pages with sourced figures, why the same surname is spelled five ways, and the counting system that groups in ten-thousands.Four tables worth bookmarkingThe pinyin grid, the Kangxi radicals, the tones and a converter for 斤, 两, 亩 and 里 — one screen each, no account.Circles, from the insideThe Buddy Circle a free account can create, lesson reminders in your own timezone, and the two quite different reasons posting stops.
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