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.