Dot Languages vs DongChinese

Dot Languages is a complete Chinese learning app: lessons carefully written and crafted by humans, advanced exercises powered by AI — all built around a structured curriculum aligned to HSK 3.0 (2021 and 2025) and TOCFL 2.0 (2023), with personalised practice. Learn at your own pace through a dynamic HSK-aligned learning path with 11,000+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, and reading. Read new articles daily, refreshed for every HSK level, and look up any word in a comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary with character components. Practice that adapts to you: spaced repetition for vocabulary retention, animated stroke-order character writing, speech recognition for pronunciation, multiple choice, matching, sentence arrangement, flash cards, and AI-evaluated open-ended questions. Stay motivated with awards, streaks, learning milestones, leaderboards, and social profiles. Track your performance with weekly progress charts. Bring your own content — add private articles from any source and generate study material from text you paste in. More features: family plans, teacher classroom tools, grammar with sentence-structure analysis, and variable-speed audio narration of articles.

Dong Chinese creates personalized Chinese reading material just for you. Powered by AI, it generates short stories matched to your vocabulary level, so you always read at the right difficulty — challenging enough to learn, easy enough to enjoy. How it works: Pick a topic — daily life, travel, food, technology, culture, and more — or type in anything you want to read about. Dong Chinese instantly generates a Chinese story tailored to you. Every story comes with a list of new vocabulary words, complete with pinyin and English definitions. Tap any word to look it up While reading, simply tap any Chinese word to pull up its full dictionary entry. Includes the complete CC-CEDICT dictionary built right into the app for instant, offline lookups. Read your way Switch between three display modes: characters only, characters + pinyin, or characters + pinyin + English. Sync with Anki Connect your AnkiWeb account and Dong Chinese will use your existing flashcard decks to generate stories that reinforce the words you're already learning. Key features: - AI-powered story generation on any topic - Full CC-CEDICT dictionary with 120,000+ entries, entirely on-device - Tap-to-look-up for instant definitions while reading - New words highlighted with pinyin and meanings - Three reading display modes - AnkiWeb integration to personalize stories to your vocabulary - Stories saved locally for offline re-reading - Simplified and traditional character support