Features & Capabilities

If you are learning Mandarin Chinese, our monthly E-books will provide you with the best learning experiences.

Now we have two different levels of E-book collection, which are Elementary and intermediate. As for Advanced level, it is coming soon in six months. You can purchase the E-book in accordance with your language proficiency.

The language used is carefully selected to correspond to official levels. For texts in Simplified Chinese, the characters are chosen in accordance with New HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) levels in Mainland China. Our Elementary level corresponds to New HSK level 3, and Intermediate level to New HSK level 4.

As for Traditional Chinese version, the words used are also carefully chosen on the basis of the TOP (the Test of Proficiency-Huayu) standard in Taiwan. Our Elementary level corresponds to TOP elementary level, and Intermediate level to TOP intermediate level.

Each E-book has 12 stories, and each story contains 450~500 Chinese characters.

Our Chinese learning E-books have features as followed:

  1. Click on a colored words, and we will show you its English definition, pinyin, part of speech, sentences, and its HSK/TOP level.
  2. Click on “More,” and you get to know different meanings of the same word.
  3. You can save words you don’t know or aren’t familiar with to memorize later.
  4. Click on hyperlinks of proper nouns such as place names or celebrity names, and learn more about Chinese geography, culture, and history while reading Chinese stories.
  5. Every story comes with full English translation and pinyin.
  6. We track your progress. After reading each article, a five-question quiz will test how well your understanding of the story is and will keep a record of your first-time test result.
  7. The audio version of each story enables you to listen to standard Chinese and to train your Chinese listening skill.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Chinese Stories Publishing Co., Ltd.
Rating:
5.00
(1)
3.20
Version:
1.6.1 Last updated: 2016-09-13
Version code:
841429927
Creation date:
2013-05-03
Compatible devices:
Size:
38.64MB
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Chinese Stories Publishing Co., Ltd.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/th/app/chinese-stories-elementary/id626627934
Website:
http://chinese-stories.com/

User Reviews

Please update this app. It won’t open on the current version of iOS and I am so sad... I love learning chinese with these stories. Thank you.
by fï*****, 2019-06-11

every time I click on the app, it immediately exits out. I did a hard reset on my phone and removed the app as well.
by je*****, 2018-07-26

Really love this app and I feel so lucked out that this app is free. The app offers to tell traditional Chinese stories with the Chinese characters and the pinyin (or the English displayed), and that is while reading the story to you all at once. If that's not awesome enough, scattered throughout the story, words that the app think might be new vocabulary are also highlighted. With mere a simple click at it, while maintaining on the same page, a small box will pop up displaying that character's definition, its pinyin, the English translation and even have two sentences serving as examples as to how to use those words. All you need to do is click outside the pop up box and then you can resume right where you left off. If those aren't good customer service, I don't know what is. I have full faith that as long as I diligently use this app to its fullest potential, my Chinese would definitely improve by leaps and bounds. Whoever want to learn Chinese without having to memorize a Chinese dictionary should definitely check this app out. Lastly, thank you for creating such an amazing app, guys.
by Mi*****, 2015-12-04
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