Nihao: Learn Mandarin Chinese

One focused Mandarin session a day, built from what you got wrong yesterday, with a panda who talks along with every word you hear and cheers each right answer.

Nihao plans one focused Mandarin session a day — 15 to 60 minutes of characters, reading, listening, speaking and grammar — and builds tomorrow's session from what you got wrong today.

There is no course to pick and no lesson one to sit through: a short placement test, or two quick questions, sets your starting level, and the plan adapts from there.

WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE • Characters & stroke order — write each character on screen, stroke by stroke, and get stopped when a stroke goes wrong. • Reading — short everyday sentences with the pinyin hidden, so you read the characters instead of the alphabet. One tap shows it when you need it. • Listening — every word and sentence spoken in a natural Mandarin voice, as many times as you like. • Speaking — say the line out loud and see, character by character, what came through. Play your own recording back next to the model. • Grammar — one pattern at a time, explained plainly with examples, then put to work in sentences you build yourself.

HOW IT ADAPTS Spaced repetition decides when each character, word and grammar point comes back: pushed further out every time you get it right, pulled closer the moment you don't. Whatever you stumbled on yesterday gets the most room today.

ALSO IN NIHAO • HSK 3.0 levels: see what each level requires, browse its words and take a practice test. • Progress you can browse: the characters you can write, the words you can read and the grammar you have mastered. • Quick 6-minute drills for any skill, outside the daily plan. • Your choice of voice, speed and session length, in light or dark mode. • One account for the app and the web, at nihao-learning.com.

PRIVACY Your voice recording stays on your phone. Analytics and ads measurement only run if you allow them, and you can change your mind at any time in Settings.