Mandarin · learn by reading
Learn Mandarin from texts you want to finish.
taihaa is a reading loop for Mandarin. Bring an article, a story, or a class text. Tap words for pinyin, save the useful ones with the sentence still attached, and review them later.
今天我们读一篇新的文章。
jīn tiān wǒ men dú yì piān xīn de wén zhāng
今天
jīn tiān
today
我们
wǒ men
we
读
dú
read
一篇
yì piān
one (article)
新的
xīn de
new
文章
wén zhāng
article
Reading, then a small review queue
Choose a text you would finish anyway
A news paragraph, a class handout, a short story, or an EPUB chapter. taihaa does not start you on a pile of unrelated example sentences.
Tap what you do not know yet
The reader splits the line so you can select a word, see pinyin, and check a dictionary suggestion. You decide what is worth saving.
Review the sentence, not a bare card
Saved words come back with the line they came from. Again, Learning, Known, and Easy set a simple spaced schedule. Ignore drops a word from review.
What “learn by reading” means here
A word list can introduce vocabulary. It cannot show you how that word sits in a sentence you care about. taihaa keeps the practice attached to a text: the reader for the first meeting, the saved sentence for the next ones.
Pinyin is a bridge
Show pinyin while the line is new, then turn it off and read the characters. The point is to get through a text, not to live in romanization.
Save less, on purpose
A word list of everything on the page becomes noise. Save the words that blocked you, with a gloss you have actually checked.
Level tags are estimates
Lessons can show an automatic CEFR tag and, for Mandarin, an old HSK 1–6 estimate. They help you pick a text. They are not an exam result.
Suggestions need a glance
Meanings can come from your own vocabulary or curated Mandarin dictionary data. They speed reading up. They are not a finished translation of the article.
A practical first session
- Register and set the target language to Chinese (Mandarin).
- Open a sample lesson, a library starter, or paste a short simplified Chinese paragraph.
- Read one page with pinyin on. Save three to eight words, and edit any gloss that looks wrong.
- Come back for review. The card should still show the sentence from that page.
URL import works best on public articles. If a page is paywalled or mostly scripts, paste the text instead. English is the base language for meanings in the public beta.
Start with one Mandarin text.
You do not need a full course loaded in advance. One article is enough to see whether reading-first practice fits how you study.