A minimal Chinese learning site

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This is a non-AI Chinese learning app I started working on before ChatGPT. Now that LLMs are near-perfect translators, this non-AI approach is clearly not the global optimum, so I figured I might as well put it out before its utility hits 0.I made this to help myself speak Chinese to my parents. Great tools already existed for learning to _read_ Chinese, but I was unable to find anything designed to help you produce your own grammatically correct Chinese sentences. As any 2nd gen knows, the ability to understand a language does not imply the ability to speak/write it.So this app, Shuo Chinese, which I named affectionately after the reading app Du Chinese, starts by just showing you a bunch o

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Website: chinese.johnqian.com