maayot | Read Chinese & Learn - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Become a Chinese Reading Guru.

Drilling new characters doesn’t work, simple. That’s what research shows.
Learn characters as they are used by native Chinese speakers, in context.

Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are both available.

Learn Chinese as you read it with a daily engaging story and a pleasant learning experience with one-tap character definition, comprehension quiz, writing prompts and more.

Our learners love it:

"The stories are just really interesting and good. These stories aren’t written purely to teach you Chinese reading; they’re also interesting in their own right. [...] It’s a no-frills platform for improving vocabulary, reading and listening — and at its core it provides really interesting stories that keep you coming back. We have no doubt that you will improve your Mandarin reading skills if you take your daily story with Maayot." - GoEastMandarin

"maayot helps to motivate you by delivering daily bite-sized reading activities" - AllLanguageRessources

"I love reading it each day with my morning coffee" - Ron

What you'll get:
• Daily Unique Story in Chinese for your level -> Practice your Reading
• Tap a Word for Definition & Example Sentences -> Learn New Characters
• Daily Native Recording of the Story in Chinese -> Practice your Listening
• Daily Quiz about the Story -> Test your Understanding

Our levels:
• Beginner: HSK 1 / HSK 2 / HSK 3
• Intermediate: HSK 4 / HSK 5
• Advanced: HSK 6 or above

Note: Free users get access to a new story in Chinese on Sundays only. Standard plan users get a new story daily.

Terms of Use: https://www.maayot.com/terms-of-use
Privacy: https://www.maayot.com/privacy-policy

Got feedback?
Reach out directly to us through our website: www.maayot.com

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In-Apps

Standard Plan

$9.99

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User Rating

3.86 out of 5

28 ratings in United States

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Ratings History

Reviews

fraudulent charges

i canceled my subscription in january and am still being charged with no response from the ‘company’. stay away.

Nice

Nice app for relaxation.

Cham

I will try to learn Chinese from this application

Good daily practice

I’m using this app as part of my daily language learning and appreciate the simplicity of use. It’s just a nice extra tool and exercise to work on daily.

A few crucial flaws that make this not remotely worth the price

I know that language textbooks start with inviting, massive text at the beginning levels and then get increasingly smaller as learners progress, but the text on this app is nearly illegibly small. I don’t even read text this small in my native language because it hurts my eyes to try. It has nothing to do with my Chinese reading ability. The fact that I can’t adjust the text size or copy it into Pleco (where I can adjust the text size and make vocab lists for free) makes this app nearly useless to me. For ten bucks a month, i would expect there to be a vocabulary list feature and text size adjustment ability. The audio also cuts out if you leave the app or hit the lock button on the phone. This means that if you’re working with a text the way most research indicates you should, which would be to only listen to it a few times before listening and following along with the words, you have to have your phone unlocked while listening, which makes doing anything else while listening really difficult. It’s a good idea in theory to only have one text available per day. I was looking forward to trying it out and not facing decision fatigue. But apps like Chairman’s Bao are cheaper and have far more features, even if it’s easy to get overwhelmed or bounce around with a seemingly limitless supply of choices of texts. The premium membership idea just freaks me out. Who would want to record their voice to send to China for “feedback”? Do you know what China uses that kind of information for? If you’re learning Chinese, you should be aware of the dystopian crazy stuff that the CCP is doing with tech. You should assume your voice recording is being used for nefarious purposes. But maayot wants you to pay them fifty bucks a month for that?

Maayto

It a beautiful app

Helpful and informative

Found this app really helpful in beginning the steps to learning Chinese. Really like the layout on how they let you learn at your pace.

Great practice.

Whether you have just begun learning Chinese or you’ve been working on it for longer, Maayot will accommodate. The font of characters on the site is also very helpful and makes writing/reading more clear.

A Quick Reading Lesson

Maayot has one main goal: to offer new readings to its many students. I have only used the beginning level, so I know the readings are simple for a reason. So far after a few weeks, the readings are varied and offer gradual exposure to new vocabulary and some review of previous vocabulary. There is a built in dictionary function, but it is very simple, so additional help might be needed to understand some words/phrases in context. There is also a quiz with each reading that requires a close reading of the text. I wish there could be more than one question, but when a new text is offered every day, I understand why it is short. The final section is a written response to a prompt based on the reading. It’s fun to see how other users have responded.

Really want to subscribe but have some issues

The app offers new Chinese reading everyday. I love the readings and the ability to click and see pinyin if needed. The level feels very good, my only issue is for the quiz that sometimes I don’t know the characters and the quiz question feels more difficult than the actual story. So having the same access to the click on character feature for pinyin in the question would help a lot. Also for the writing response it never works for me.

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