Read & Learn Chinese - DuShu

DuShuisaChineseReaderthatwilltakeanyMandarinChinesetext(viacopy&pasteorfromafile)andpresentittoyouinawaytomakeiteasiertoread,butatthesametimehelpyoulearnasmuchaspossiblewhilereading.

DuShuaddstonecolors,underlinesthatshowwhichcharactersarepartofaword,andpinyin.However,Pinyinisnotsimplyaddedtoeverycharacter,butonlywhereyouneedit-theappkeepstrackofthecharactersyouknow.Pinyincanbeturnedonoroffforacharactersimplybytappingit.

Youcanreadsentencebysentence,withavocabularylistbelowthetext,orChinesetextonlywiththevocabularyonaseparatepage.Thevocabularylistshowsonlyrelevantvocabaccordingtoyourskilllevel.Wordsyoualreadyknowcanberemovedfromthelist,theappalsokeepstrackofyourknownwordsandwillnotshowknownwordsinvocablistsagain.

Atranslationisavailableforeachsentence-manualtranslationsforourintegratedtexts,GoogleTranslationsforeverythingelse.Ifyoursystemlanguageisn'tEnglish,youcaneasilyswitchbetweenEnglishtranslationsandtranslationsintoyoursystemlanguage.(Sentencetranslationsareapremiumfeature-however,asanintroductorytrialweofferthemforfreeuntiltheendofFebruary2018).

Youcanalsolistentoanytext,highqualityaudiowillbecreatedviaGoogletext-to-speech.You'llalwaysbeshownonlythesentencethatiscurrentlybeingread,plusrelevantvocabularyitems.

Ofcoursethere'sanintegrateddictionary,whichbeyondusualdictionary-informationalsoshowsthefrequency,HSKlevelandabreakdownintoconstituentcomponentsforcharacters.

Youcansaveyourtexts&resumewhereyouleftofflater,andalsogetlotsofinformationaboutyourtext-likedifficulty,howmanyuniqueHanzi(=characters)thereareinthetextetc.

Everything'shighlyconfigurable-whichwordsarebeshowninthevocablist,whichtonecolorscheme(ornone),pinyinalways,neverorforunknowncharactersonly,textandpinyinsizeetc.canallbeselectedbtheuser.Asitwilladapttoyourskilllevel,thisMandarinChineseReadercanbeusefulforeverybodyfrombeginnerstoadvancedlearners.

Statisticalandgrammar-basedanalysismakessurethesegmentationintowordsandannotationwithtonecolorsandpinyinisasaccurateaspossible.

Textsintraditonalcharactersareautomaticallyconvertedtosimplifiedcharacters.Displayingtraditionalcharactersiscurrentlynotsupported.

Incaseyoudon'tknowwhattoread,DuShufeaturesextensivelistsofsamplesentencesforallHSK-levels.