爱Chinese
Beta guide

Welcome, beta tester.

Short walkthroughs of the bits you'll actually use — onboarding, Quest practice, reading, and making your own lessons. Looms drop in here as we record them. If something's broken or confusing, there's a feedback block at the bottom — use it.

1 · Onboarding

Getting started

The first time you open the app we ask a couple of questions — your current Chinese level and what you're here to do — so the AI can pitch lessons at the right difficulty from day one. You can change your answers later in Settings; nothing is set in stone.
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Onboarding walkthrough
Loom + YouTube on the way.
  • Pick your level honestly — the AI uses it to set vocab difficulty, not to judge you.
  • You'll land on the Overview tab. Everything else is one tap away from there.
  • If you create an account, your progress syncs across devices. Skip it and you're local-only.
2 · Daily practice

Quest mode

Quest is where you do your daily reviews. It mixes activity types automatically — flashcards, matching, fill-in-the-blank, sentence builds, read-alouds — based on how well you know each word. The goal isn't to grind; it's to spend 5–10 minutes a day with the right words at the right time.
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Quest mode walkthrough
Loom + YouTube on the way.
  • New words show up as flashcards first, then graduate to harder activities as you get them right.
  • SRS means spaced repetition — words you're shaky on come back sooner, words you've nailed disappear for weeks. You don't manage this; the app does.
  • Read-aloud activities use your mic. Give it permission once; it'll give you tone-level feedback.
  • Tap the settings cog in Quest to dial activity types up or down to your taste.
3 · Explore

Existing reading

Explore's reading tab is a growing library of articles and short pieces, tagged by topic and level. Tap one, and you're in reading mode — every word is tappable, audio is built in, and anything new gets added to your vocab automatically.
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Existing reading walkthrough
Loom + YouTube on the way.
  • Filter by HSK level or topic to find something that fits your mood.
  • Tap any word while reading to see pinyin, meaning, and example sentences.
  • Every word you meet is quietly tracked — Quest will review it later.
4 · Explore

Create your own

The bit that makes this app different. Tell the AI a topic — anything from "ordering bubble tea" to "the Ming dynasty" — and it generates a reading lesson at your level, with audio, vocab, and follow-up activities. This is how you learn words you'll actually use.
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Create your own walkthrough
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  • Be specific — "weekend brunch with friends" beats "food" every time.
  • Level is auto-detected but you can bump it up or down if it feels off.
  • Lessons are saved to your library the moment they generate — nothing gets lost.
  • Give the AI a URL or an image and it'll build a lesson from that too.
5 · Your stuff

Library

Everything you've ever created, read, or saved lives here — lessons, articles, vocabulary, and collections. Think of it as your personal Chinese textbook, except you wrote it.
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Library walkthrough
Loom + YouTube on the way.
  • Switch between lessons, articles, and vocab with the top tabs.
  • Tap a word to see every lesson it's appeared in — context is the point.
  • Collections let you group related lessons together (e.g. "Business trip prep").
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