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Mandarin Bean

App Service · Language learning · 32 mentions · 3 subreddits · discussed in r/ChineseLanguage, r/duolingo, r/Korean

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Pros

  • You want some audio content that's short and "easy", has a transcript, and is leveled to work through, things like like ChinesePod, maayot, mandarinbean, short learners stories on YouTube etc.
  • mandarinbean.com has free graded readers!
  • Du Chinese, MandarinBean.com and HSKreading.com have graded readers with accompanying audio.
  • Save yourself time and get something to read in Chinese any graded reader doesnt matter whose it is or where it is. DuChinese, TCB, Mandarinbean, Pleco add-on, Assimil anything just something you can read.
  • I woild suggest the graded reader series. There's also mandarinbean.com as well.

Cons

  • You tried mandarinbean.com ?
  • mandarinbean, anki, and I'd suggest looking up pimsleur and even getting the HSK books.
  • A good source I was using for a while was MandarinBean. However lately, the supposedly HSK3 lessons are featuring high amounts of HSK4+ vocab, which is frustrating and not conducive to learning.
  • when I checked out resources like MandarinBean, I found that they include a lot of vocabulary that I haven't encountered yet in Duolingo.
  • Free alternative: MandarinBean (but has less function)

Sentiment

27 positive (84%) · 3 mixed (9%) · 2 negative (6%)

Trust + time weighted score: +73% · raw score 78%

What redditors said (10 of 32)

You want some audio content that's short and "easy", has a transcript, and is leveled to work through, things like like ChinesePod, maayot, mandarinbean, short learners stories on YouTube etc.
positive · u/y****o · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
mandarinbean.com has free graded readers!
positive · u/o****o · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Nov 4, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Du Chinese, MandarinBean.com and HSKreading.com have graded readers with accompanying audio.
positive · u/G****t · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Jan 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Save yourself time and get something to read in Chinese any graded reader doesnt matter whose it is or where it is. DuChinese, TCB, Mandarinbean, Pleco add-on, Assimil anything just something you can read.
positive · u/B****t · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Feb 23, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
You tried mandarinbean.com ?
mixed · u/D****4 · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Dec 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗ · attribution unverified
I woild suggest the graded reader series. There's also mandarinbean.com as well.
positive · u/D****4 · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
mandarinbean, anki, and I'd suggest looking up pimsleur and even getting the HSK books.
mixed · u/D****4 · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Aug 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Mandarinbean for reading and SuperChinese as an all inclusive resource.
positive · u/J****i · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Jul 26, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Some free HSK level reading at https://chinesehskreading.com/ and Mandarinbean.com
positive · u/G****0 · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Nov 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Some free HSK level reading at https://chinesehskreading.com/ and Mandarinbean.com
positive · u/G****0 · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Nov 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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