Learn Mandarin properly. For free.
MidMando takes you from your first character to HSK 9, with a daily plan that fits your day and a memory that never lets a word slip away. No ads, no subscription, no account.
Download free on the App StoreiPhone, iPad and Mac. Free, with no account. Works offline.
The best Mandarin app should not cost anything.
Most language apps charge you monthly and then slow you down so you keep paying. MidMando is made by one person who wanted the app he could not find. It is free, with nothing to unlock. The only thing I ask in return is that you tell me what would make it better.
Learn a little every day.
Open the app and the day's plan is ready: the word of the day, the next class in your course, the words you bookmarked, and a review of whatever is slipping. Twenty minutes, done.
Never lose a word.
Every answer you give updates that word's schedule. Miss it and it comes back tomorrow. Know it and it comes back in a month. The app remembers so you do not have to.
Read anything.
Paste a message, a menu, a lyric or a sign into Translate. You get the Chinese, the pinyin, the English and a list of the words you have not met yet, ready to learn.
Every HSK word, from 1 to 9.
11,323 words across every HSK level, grouped into short classes of about fifteen words. Each class has nine parts: learn, quiz, type, sentences, listening, tones, translation, write and a test. You can see every character you have met and how well you know it, so your Chinese visibly grows.
The things textbooks leave out.
Radicals and components, 5,187 idioms and sayings, 127 classical poems, the 34 provinces of China, slang and texting, and 66 songs to sing along to. All of it built into the same memory as your course, so a word you meet in a poem counts towards the one in your class.
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I want to hear from you.
This app is built one learner at a time. If something confuses you, if a word is wrong, if you wish it did something it does not, tell me. There is a Report a bug button on almost every screen of the app, and a feedback form on this site. I read every message and most of the app's best features started as one.
Send feedbackChinese on your screen, read in a keystroke.
Select Chinese text in any app — a browser, Mail, a PDF — and press ⌘⇧M. A small panel comes forward with the sentence split into words, a reading under each and the English, then it is gone when you press Escape. MidMando never steals focus, so the page you were reading keeps its place, and everything you look up is waiting in your history on your phone that evening.
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