Accelerate Your Chinese Literacy
Break through the reading barrier. Whether you're relocating, studying Chinese, or joining a global firm, UseYu builds your reading skills faster through interactive, context-driven stories.
- Contextual Acquisition Stop memorizing isolated flashcards. Learn characters naturally by reading immersive professional dialogues and narratives.
- Color-Coded Grammar Visualize sentence structure instantly. Tap any word to reveal definitions and map vocabulary directly to English translations.
- Smart Spaced Repetition Our algorithm tracks your mastery of every character, automatically generating drills for the words that need the most work.
Translated into 21 Languages
We believe you learn fastest when concepts are mapped to your native tongue. Whether you're starting from English, Español, 日本語, or العربية, UseYu bridges the gap directly from your language to Chinese.
Mandarin or Cantonese.
Simplified or Traditional.
Master the spoken dialect of your environment with the written script you actually need to read. Instantly toggle modes across the entire platform. Vocabulary perfectly adapts to local colloquialisms (e.g. "Bicycle").
A Complete Toolkit for Fluency
Everything you need to master Chinese reading and writing, built right into the platform.
Master the strokes
Don't just stare at characters. Watch them draw themselves and interact to build muscle memory across our entire dictionary.
Hear every word
Map characters to their sounds instantly. Leverage your device's built-in speech synthesis for fast, offline pronunciation.
Never forget a word
Smart flashcards adapt to your memory. Review the words you struggle with exactly when you're about to forget them.
Build a lasting habit
Earn XP, climb the Scholar ranks, and maintain your daily streak. Watch your progress grow as your fluency accelerates.
A Library That Grows With You
From corporate emails and professional dialogue to ancient poetry and casual fiction, our content spans a massive range of topics to ensure you're learning vocabulary you actually care about.
UseYu Grows with You
Start at any level. As your skills advance, UseYu adapts to push you further towards true reading fluency.
Learn in Stereo.
Dual Translations.
Why stop at one? UseYu allows you to set both a primary and secondary translation language.
Perfect for polyglots who are native English speakers brushing up on French while learning Chinese.
Free to start. Premium to accelerate.
We believe in accessible education. Our core platform is free forever. When you are ready to accelerate your learning, Premium gives you the advanced tools you need to reach true fluency.
Basic Scholar
Everything you need to get started.
- Access to free content
- Mandarin & Cantonese Access
- Limit of 3 segments per day
- Cloud Progress Syncing
Premium Scholar
The ultimate toolkit for serious learners.
- Unlock access to all stories and articles
- Offline Mode (Dictionaries & Audio)
- Unlimited Spaced Repetition Drills
- Premium upgrade for 1 user
* Savings are compared to the individual plan billed monthly, which is currently $15 per month.
† For Duo and Family subscriptions, the purchasing user is upgraded immediately and receives activation codes for the additional seats (1 for Duo, 4 for Family). Once activated, these secondary accounts are upgraded for the exact same duration as the primary subscription and will expire on the same day.