Pleco’s dictionary+Baidu’s translation+Anki’s method+爱-powered engine=爱Chinese
However Chinese finds you, keep it.
A menu, a message, a word your tutor drops. One tap and it’s in your collection — ready to come back as practice built around you.
Look it up
A huge contextual dictionary. Can’t find it? 爱 fills in the gaps.
Translate
Words, sentences, whole articles — translate anything, then get tested on it by 爱!
Conversation help
Your perfect wingman mid-conversation — then keep the vocab that mattered.
Read
Fresh daily content on real events, or create your own from scratch.
Snap it
Don’t just read the menu — learn it for next time.
Bring your progress
Import from Anki or Pleco — progress included. No cold starts.
爱-powered activities for all your niche vocab.
Life isn’t limited to HSK vocab, so why should practice be? 爱Chinese generates bespoke activities for your own words — and keeps generating them until each one is locked in.
Encounter
Acquire
Repeat
Practice that texts you first.
These four live in your inbox. They have opinions — about rent, about your sleep schedule, about whether that restaurant is worth it — and they deliver them in Chinese. Replying is the drill; they’ll use the words you’re learning, and they’ll notice when you go quiet.
Your landlady. Brisk, warm, a little nosy.
Your outdoorsy friend. Plans trips you haven’t agreed to yet.
A professional contact. Markets, headlines, the bigger picture.
Your closest friend here. Notices when you go quiet.
And every chat comes back graded — what landed, and the line a native would have used instead.
Sound more native
Bring your deck.
Progress comes too.
Years of Anki reps or a Pleco stash you’ve been collecting since forever — import the file and every word keeps its earned level. Mature words come due on their own schedule, not from zero. Nothing is saved until you confirm.
- Comes across:your words + review progress
- Doesn’t:audio and custom note layouts — we’d rather tell you now
- No file?Paste any word list.
Quick questions
How is this better than Anki?+
Anki shows you the same card every time: front, back, rate yourself. Here a word comes back as an activity built for it, on demand — fill the gap, build the sentence, hear it and answer, trace it stroke by stroke and get told what you got wrong. Which activity you get scales with how well you actually know the word. Same spaced repetition underneath; the difference is you spend the session using the word instead of staring at it.
What is there to read?+
Articles built on what actually happened this week, served fresh every day and graded to your level. Or make your own — from a topic, a link, or anything you are curious about. Every word in every text is tappable, and the ones you tap join your collection.
Can I practise conversation?+
爱Chinese is bursting with 爱 characters who cannot wait to hear from you — a landlady, an outdoorsy friend, a professional contact — and they text first, in Chinese. They will also steer the chat towards whatever vocab you have coming due. Lucky you. Replying is the practice: every message has a pinyin and English reveal, difficulty has a dial, and you get a debrief at the end.
Why not just use Pleco, Anki and a reader?+
You can — I did, for years. The dictionary is excellent, the flashcards are excellent, the graded reader is excellent, and between them words fall through the cracks every single day, because none of them talk to each other. After a decade living in Chinese I got tired of being the integration layer, so I built the one app I wanted: a word you meet anywhere becomes a word you own. It is a labour of 爱, and I would like you to have it.
Get 爱Chinese.
Free to start, on iOS and Android. Bring your deck, keep your progress, and let every word you meet find somewhere to live.
