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I’m just waiting for a competitor to take over and do a better job. User experience sucks, the functionalities as well and the articles they are publishing are always too complicated for the level, sometimes also way too easy.

I’ve been a subscriber for around half a year now, and I’ve seen substantial improvements to my ability to read Mandarin texts. I passed the HSK 5 a few years ago and was looking for ways to improve further. TCB was recommended to me by a friend as a way to do this, and I was happy to try it, since reading was my weakest discipline on the test. The app makes the experience of training yourself to read more complicated texts very smooth, since it includes a dictionary and integrated flashcards for studying vocabulary. The user interface is somewhat clunky at times, but has improved substantially over the past few months. I would recommend TCB to all intermediate learners of Mandarin trying to ease themselves into more extensive reading.

The product is great overall. What I like about it, is the unique combination of reading and listening comprehension. I don’t know of anything like that, that is beginner friendly as TCB. I also like that texts are short so I can practice before bed or on the bus/train. However, there are two things I don’t like. 1) Sometimes the loading times are insane, making the app unusable. Which I assume is due to network/ server reasons. 2.) The idea of the exercises is great, but there are some bugs (this is minor to me, I still learn a lot)

The app doesn’t render correctly on iPhone X. Makes it super hard to use because e.g. button click areas are not on the button, but above, the top menu bar is partially hidden etc etc

Chairman's bao team, you rock!

Would be great to have the option to choose south or north Chinese. Some words and the er hua aren’t used in standard Chinese.

Please add “show pinyin for saved words” or at least pinyin for words above the level you are reading at so that you don’t have distracting pinyin for easy words and characters. Otherwise a 10/10 app

I’m paying for this too but can’t access articles. Remove bugs and this thing rocks.

Great app for listening to news articles in Chinese while being able to touch on Chinese words with pinyin to see the translation as you listen.

I have been studying Traditional Mandarin forever and always looking for new apps in order to improve my skills. So years ago, I went through this fabulous The Chairman’s Bao and fell in love with it! This year I made the decision of purchasing a few Mandarin lifetime subscriptions apps and can’t be happier with the decision I made !!!🤓🤩🙏🏻 Reading and listening are one of the keys in order to acquire a new language skills, especially if one wants to take it to a higher level. This app focus on this -I would say - almost a 100%. It helps to connect audio, reading / sentences sequences, and Chinese characters , so you can practice memorizing as well. The fact you can also read aloud these short stories and articles is a fantastic way to feel confident with Mandarin. It’s amazing how many different words one can learn by reading this material regularly!! One of the positive things about TCB is its huge and diverse library with different levels of vocabulary, which is renewed I think almost every day with new additions ! Please, give a try! You won’t regret!🙌🏻🌟🤩It’s SO easy to keep up with Mandarin this way!🫶🏻🥰 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I would like to thank Diego and his wonderful team for their patience and kindness!🙌🏻🤩 Leah Grullón M.