About ChineseQuick

How the phrases are chosen

• 📍Situation first. Every phrase belongs to a real moment, not to a textbook chapter.
• 🗣What people actually say. Short, natural, safe to use with strangers.
• 🔤Always with pinyin. So you can read it out loud even before you know characters.

Audio, and why it works offline

Every phrase ships with its own recording, played from this site — not from your device’s speech engine. That matters more than it sounds: phones and laptops often have no Chinese voice installed at all, and when they don’t, a text-to-speech button simply does nothing. Ours always plays.

Each clip is small (a few kilobytes), so the phrases you open are cached and keep working on a plane, in a basement restaurant, or anywhere else with no signal. Install the site to your home screen and it behaves like an app.

How the audio is made

The current clips are generated with a neural Chinese voice (Microsoft zh-CN-Xiaoxiao). They are clear and consistent, but they are synthetic. Recording every phrase with a native speaker is on the roadmap — when that happens, no code changes are needed underneath, and we’ll say so here.

What this is not

Not a full course, not a dictionary, and not an exam-prep tool. There is no HSK track, no grammar lessons, no login and no subscription — just the sentences you need next.

Start with a situation

• 🍜 Restaurant — Order food, ask for the bill, handle spice levels.
• ✈️ Travel — Airports, trains, directions and asking for help.
• 🏨 Hotel — Check in, check out and fix things in your room.
• 🛍 Shopping — Prices, sizes, bargaining and paying.
• 💴 Money — Pay like a local: QR codes, Alipay, WeChat Pay, cash and cards.
• 💬 Everyday — Greetings, thanks and the small words you use all day.
• 🚨 Emergency — Get help fast: police, doctor, lost and allergies.

Saved phrases, and what we don’t collect

Tapping the heart on a phrase saves it to your own device — the list lives in your browser’s local storage and is never sent anywhere. There is no account, no email, no server. Learning progress (what you marked as learned, your quiz scores, your streak) is stored the same way, which is also why the site keeps working with no connection.

The Privacy Policy spells out exactly what is and isn’t collected.

Who makes this

ChineseQuick is an independent, ad-free project. If a phrase is wrong, unnatural, or missing, tell us — corrections are the most useful thing you can send.