Haru ChineseLearn Chinese with Haru the cat
From your first 你好 to newspaper Chinese. Short lessons, bonus games and boss battles help characters, words and sentences stick while you play. No sign-up, no in-app purchases, and ads only when you choose.
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Start with pinyin initials and finals, the four tones and your first characters, move on to everyday conversation, then tackle news, business Chinese and idioms. Every course can be started from day one, and mastery tiers from Bronze to Legend keep you reviewing.
Pick the meaning, choose the Chinese word, listen and choose, spell it with character tiles, put words in order, fill in the blank and match pairs. Anything you miss comes back at the end of the lesson.
Answer before the timer runs out to defeat bosses, then take a breather with Memory Cards and True or False Rush. Finish a chapter to earn a badge and bonus coins.
Hear words and sentences read by your device's Chinese (Mandarin) text-to-speech voice. Turn on slow playback or auto-play, and train your ear in listening practice.
Listen to Chinese lines you might hear in movies and TV dramas, repeat after Haru, then quiz yourself. The lines are newly written for learning, not quotes from real films or shows.
Search the words you've learned by Chinese characters, pinyin or meaning, and review just the ones you got wrong. There's also a daily chest, a learning streak and outfits for Haru bought with coins you earn.
Learn new words in lessons, then prove them in games and boss battles. From the Platinum tier on, pinyin is hidden.
Haru Chinese has no accounts, and progress such as stars, coins and your mistake notebook is stored only on your device. The internet is used to load a rewarded ad when you choose to watch one, to send usage statistics and error reports, and to check for required updates; the app asks for no permissions like camera, microphone or location.
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