TCB | Read Chinese to Learn

I like that the length of the stories are very suitable for reading one regularly. The stories also provide some interesting or funny information. Each story is a reading, listening and grammar exercise. And provides repetition of known words for your HSK level as well as expanding vocabulary by combining characters and adding a few characters outside the HSK wordlist. Great work TCB team!

TCB has a huge library which is very interesting. I just wish some functionalities would be improved soon. I’d like to have my own download and vocabulary list folders. The test function could have been more interactive as well. And the play, pause buttons could have been bigger and better placed - more user friendly. And the read-along; karaoke reading like some other apps would be handy. Thank you for your great job already!

Good for learning more about China as well as getting the habit of reading Chinese daily and in an accessible way. An improvement would be to be able to look up individual characters their meaning (e.g. 小吃 the whole translation as appetizer as well as 小 meaning small 吃 meaning to eat). This could help with the comprehension.

Perfect for reading, vocabulary and grammar learning

Very interesting and creative way to study Chinese

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.

I’m so happy with the new TCB app! The team has done a great job and I’m convinced that TCB is really the only app one would need to study Chinese. Maybe the part that could use some improvement is the flash card system. However, TCB has integration with Hack Chinese - which I haven’t used yet - so I imagine it’s not a priority to tinker with. Maybe I’m using that feature incorrectly, but I can’t seem to get cards to sort from oldest to newest. And there’s no notification like in an SRS style flash card system of what you should be reviewing when. I use a free app for that part of learning but there’s also a lot of debate whether flash cards are even helpful. TCB gives students the tools to take charge of their learning and that is what I appreciate most. The audio for the stories is exceptional and the content is so interesting compared to a textbook. I genuinely enjoy reading the articles that are published. Thanks!

This is one of my most useful apps for learning Chinese characters In an interesting and meaningful way. I would like to see more variety in text sizing. I noticed some want the size to be smaller but I would like it to be larger especially the first time I’m studying an article. I do sometimes have glitches in the games section for some reason. I really like those games because my memory needs them to help retain the characters.