Four opinions, held stubbornly. Everything on this site is one of them wearing a costume.
Chinese is a spoken language that happens to be beautifully written, not the other way around. Learners who start from characters build a silent Chinese that collapses at the first real conversation. So here, every single word arrives as sound first: tap, listen, repeat, then look. Your accent will thank you in a year.
Nothing kills momentum like a "beginner" story hiding four dictionary trips per line. Our stories, games and sentences are machine-checked against the official word lists: if it is a Band 1 page, every word on it is Band 1. Comprehensible is not a nice-to-have; it is the whole trick.
Shame is a terrible teacher. Miss a day and your pebbles roll back a little; they never vanish. Wrong answers come back as another chance, not a red mark. The games celebrate what you can do, and quietly re-serve what you cannot, until you can.
No account, no email, no streak-shaming notifications, no fake "limited offer". Free covers learning it today, fully: words, stories, games. Pro is twenty-nine dollars exactly once, and covers remembering it forever: the long-term review system and the take-it-anywhere downloads. That line will not move.
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