Learn Chinese with real-world content, at your level
Read Bean helps heritage speakers and intermediate-advanced Chinese learners improve their literacy using real-world content. Our bite-sized lessons adapt to your progress, leveraging spaced repetition and contextualized input to accelerate your learning.
Hey everyone I’m Maggie, one of the co-founders here at Read Bean.
As an American-born Chinese (ABC), I grew up immersed in Chinese culture but lacked formal training and structure in my language learning. Since college, I’ve made countless attempts to re-learn, from building my own anki deck and watching c-dramas to screenshotting social media, but all these attempts were short-lived because they lacked structure and were either too easy or too hard for my level.
Enter Read Bean: an app to learn Chinese with content you actually love.
Here’s why Read Bean actually works:
- 📚 Personalized learning environment that adapts to your progress: content is personalized to your vocab level, making it constantly challenging to ensure your progress
- 🔬 Learning methodology backed by science: comprehensible input acquisition, the science behind our app, is how children naturally learn language
- 📅 Structured daily learning units: take the guesswork out of what to learn next to advance
- 🗣️ Contextual definitions and explanations: don’t learn textbook, stiff Chinese, learn like native speakers
- 📕 Learn Chinese through interesting content: chengyu (idiom), netizen slang, Chinese internet culture, American news, and more
Within just a few days, our users experience noticeable gains in vocabulary and reading skills—boosting literacy and improving active recall in conversation. Hear their results firsthand!
- “Today, I have a 1,862-day streak on Duolingo, but if you told me I had to make a choice, it would genuinely be to only use Read Bean moving forward.” - LK
- “First lesson done! I can say with confidence that this knocked Duolingo out of the park.” - BL
- “If it gives you any idea, I decided to drop my 500+ day Duolingo streak and plan to fully incorporate Read Bean into my New Year's resolutions!” - GN
- “I'm amazed at how Read Bean has become my favorite app to open when I have a spare moment.” - AZ
We're currently available on iOS in North America. Redeem an extended 2 week free trial here! Not in your country/device? Waitlist here.
Join our discord learning community here.
We’re so excited to launch on Product Hunt and get all your thoughts. Chinese is just the beginning, so let us know what other languages you would like to see!
