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24 alternatives to LearnChinese.ai

I made a website for learning Chinese. There are many already, but I think there is always room for new entries into the Chinese language learning ecosystem. The Site: - Course is an online version of the HSK course books (HSK 1-2 done so far, 3-4 coming soon) including all the vocabulary, texts, and all the content/activities from the coursebook and workbooks. - SRS Flashcards - SRS Sentence speaking - Character writing tool (Stroke data is from MakeMeAHanzi) - Dictionary is from the MBDG Chinese Dictionary - I build it using Rails and StimulusJS (with AI help) - Uses a lot of…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Laoshi▲239

    Learn new words with flashcards to master Chinese faster

    2021 · laoshi.io · its alternatives →

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    Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI

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    AI Chinese language tutor

    2024 · lingotheory.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! In trying to improve my Chinese skills, I built this tool that lets me write a mix of Chinese and English, then recommends a proper Chinese expression. This is super helpful when I want to write something in Chinese but I don't know all the vocab/grammar - I can enter my best effort and use English for the parts I don't know. Really, the fundamental benefit of the tool is that it encourages me to exercise the writing muscle, rather than defaulting to translating from English. My goal was to build something that is fast, relatively inexpensive, and not prone to misleading people.…

    2024 · unscrambler.dpw.me · its alternatives →

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    Just for fun, I built a language learning tool. It represents Chinese and Japanese as graphs of characters, with connections indicating given characters can form a word. It can also decompose characters to give clues on how they're pronounced, analyzes words to understand which ones are commonly used together, and more. It's fully interactive, supports offline use, generates flashcards, has sentences from humans and from AI, and plenty of other features. Check out the README for details. https://github.com/mreichhoff/HanziGraph

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello Hacker News, When learning foreign languages, I made the most progress by speaking them throughout the day, every day. So I made a site where you can *speak* to an AI language teacher to practice both listening and speaking. # The product *What I have now:* * Multilingual speech recognition: You can ask a question in English and get an answer in your target language. * Feedback on your grammar. * Suggestions: See examples of what to say next to keep the conversation flowing. * Speed: Choose a lower speed for beginners or a faster one for advanced levels. * Translations: Click to see a…

    2023 · gliglish.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…

    Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →

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    Master Chinese. Conquer HSK.

    2025 · kaohan.kz · its alternatives →

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    Speak Chinese but can't read? Learn Chinese reading FREE

    Mar 2026 · readchinesehsk.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn anything into a language lesson, instantly

    2022 · roshi.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m Alex, and one of my favorite ways to learn languages is by reading novels. Currently I’m reading 三体 (3 body problem), but one problem I've always had is it takes ages to look up words, and add them to Anki flashcards so I can remember them. 三体 is especially brutal with so much sci-fi vocab. That’s why I built Readly. I snap a pic of the page I’m reading, it loads the text in-app and lets me lookup words, add to Anki-style flashcards, or ask AI questions about the text, all in a single tap. It's a huge time saver. My specific learning strategy, if anyone wants to replicate it: 1.…

    2025 · readly.ink · its alternatives →

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    Tomyo▲1

    Zero to HSK 6: spaced repetition Chinese with AI dialogues

    Aug 2026 · tomyo.app · its alternatives →

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    Learn Chinese writing, arcade-game style

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Master Chinese HSK vocabulary with smart flashcards

    Aug 2026 · hanzimemo.app · its alternatives →

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    2025 · meitian-chengyu.com · its alternatives →

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    Learning Chinese is very easy~

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    Master Chinese reading through AIpowered interactive drawing

    Dec 2025 · sketchhanyu.aigility.digital · its alternatives →

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    Learn Mandarin Chinese by building real sentences. DouDou Chinese (句式) teaches the 100 most essential sentence patterns with instant AI feedback and FSRS spaced repetition. No signup required — start free.

    Apr 2026 · doudou-chinese.com · its alternatives →

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    Master Mandarin with an intelligent AI agent.

    Nov 2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Unlock Mandarin with Shengci: Daily HSK Vocabulary Mastery!

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    Math Academy for Mandarin — mastery learning, $49 for life

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