Build your Mandarin vocabulary fast.
Then say it out loud.
Learn to read, listen or speak fast — build the vocabulary bank you need for your goals.
More than 10,000 words across HSK 1–9, every one with a native speaker's voice and a real sentence. Multiple recall modalities help you not only learn to speak but also read and listen.
Try a card
Character, pronunciation, meaning and sentence — tap it to flip.
A short queue, once a day
New words plus whatever's due. Usually four minutes. On the bus is fine.
Read it, say it, grade it
Two buttons. Repeat or Got It. That's the whole system.
The gap grows as you get better
How long a card stays away is decided from your own answer speed.
Multiple recall modalities — you choose what the card asks you
Whether your goal is to learn to speak fast or to learn how to read and write, Shuō can help you with your goals. A card is built from four things: the character 字, its pinyin 音, the meaning 义, and the audio 听 — and you decide which side of the card each one sits on. Recognising a word and producing it are different skills, and most apps only ever test the first.
Pick a preset, or add your own combination — that's up to you. You'll see both sides of the same card.
Shuffle is there if you'd rather the deck kept changing the question.
What's inside
Every number on this page comes from the deck itself. Nothing to keep up, nothing to break.
Time based scheduling
No decision fatigue — just a yes or a no. Let the app do the thinking. It measures how fast you get to the word, so the ones you reach for slowly come back sooner and the ones you know cold get out of your way.
Every word, said out loud
Every word and its example sentence, spoken at natural speed. Tap to hear it before you flip, or after you've guessed. Both are useful, for different reasons.
Words in sentences, not in lists
Every card carries a real sentence with the target word underlined, so you learn how 学 behaves instead of memorising a gloss you'll never use. Contextual learning that carries into real conversations.
Useful words first — because learning is everywhere
Choose to learn by how common a word is in real speech, or by HSK level. Cards move up into your learning deck as you learn day to day, so you're never working through a static list.
Inside the app
It's in testing. Join the waitlist.
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No card required. Coming to iPhone and Android.