Little Lantern Chinese

Learn Chinese by actually reading it.

Little Lantern is a reading-first way to learn Mandarin. Open a graded story or a bitesize podcast, tap any word you don't know, and see its pinyin, meaning and audio right where you're reading. Save the words you want to keep and the review system brings them back when you're about to forget them.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Graded stories: short original Chinese stories from HSK 1 upwards, with cover art, audio and tap-to-look-up on every word. • Bitesize podcasts: Tanjie's short Mandarin podcasts with full transcripts, exercise sheets and comprehension questions. • Tap any word: pinyin, meaning, example sentences and native audio, without leaving the page. • Smart review: the words you save go into an adaptive review that adjusts to how well you know each one. • Pinyin table and sound guide: every syllable with native audio, plus mouth diagrams for the tricky sounds. • Read your own books: upload a Chinese PDF, a textbook, a novel or a manga, and read it with the same tap-to-look-up tools. Your uploads stay private to you. • HSK vocabulary built in, tagged to the current HSK levels.

Free to start.