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Traditional Chinese

Traditional characters, kept properly separate.

If you are learning for Taiwan or Hong Kong, learning from simplified material and converting in your head is a tax you pay on every line. Here traditional is its own library, its own level and its own queue.

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Why it stalls

Most tools treat traditional as a display setting.

They store simplified and convert on the way out, which mangles the cases where the mapping is not one to one and quietly teaches you the wrong form. It also means your saved words, your review queue and your reading level are shared with a script you are not studying, so progress in one shows up as progress in the other.

On the page

Pinyin over the word, not beside it

The same pronunciation layer as simplified, over the forms you are actually reading. It sits directly on the word rather than at the end of the line, and it goes over the whole word instead of each character, so you learn 天氣 as a word and not as two syllables.

今天jīntiān天氣tiānqìhěnhǎo
The weather is lovely today.

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The word answers you where it stands.

Not the first entry in a dictionary list, but what the word is doing in this sentence. Hear it, ask about it, or save it, without leaving the line you were reading.

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So it sticks

Every word you save comes back at the right moment.

Saved words join a review queue built on spaced repetition, and each one keeps the sentence you met it in. Your Chinese (Traditional) queue is its own: learn three languages at once and none of them bleed into the others.

How the review works

Chinese (Traditional)

Questions worth asking first.

Is this the same course as simplified with different characters?
No. It is a separate language in the app, with its own library, its own level from A1 to C2, its own saved words and its own review queue. Nothing crosses over, which is the point.
Can I learn both at once?
Yes, and plenty of people do. They behave as two languages, so a word saved in one does not surface in the other session, and you switch between them with a tap.
Is the library as deep as simplified?
Not quite, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. There is daily news, lessons, series and stories, and anything you bring yourself works exactly the same. Simplified has more of the catalogue behind it.

More in the help pages.

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