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Dad Speaks Chinese

爸爸說中文 · bàba shuō zhōngwén

A father lifting his small daughter into a hug

Immerse yourself in the Chinese your kids speak

Built for multilingual homes, where Mum and the kids speak Chinese and Dad doesn't yet.

  • DrillsSpeak your line out loud and hear the answer come back
  • PodcastsSimple, short scenes you can replay
  • PhrasesA library of the ones you actually use
  • RecordingsRecord your family, and those words lead your lessons
爸爸好想你bàba hǎo xiǎng nǐBaba missed you you
我也想你wǒ yě xiǎng nǐI missed you too her
Start tonight

Works in any phone browser. No app store, nothing to download.

Only what you'll actually say

Other courses open with nationalities and how many brothers you have. You need to get a three-year-old into the bath.

So that's all this teaches, and you use it the same evening you learn it.

Your evening, not a textbook

The lessons follow the parts of the day you are actually in.

A mother and father helping their small daughter with her shoes by the front door
  • MorningsShoes on, breakfast, out of the door
  • MealsFinishing it, spilling it, asking for more
  • Bath timeGetting in, washing, not getting out
  • BedtimeTeeth, one more story, goodnight
  • PlaySharing, taking turns, one more go
  • FeelingsTired, cross, frightened, pleased

Put it on your home screen

It opens full screen like any other app. On an iPhone it's also the only way to get a reminder at bedtime.

  1. Tap ShareThe square with an arrow out of it, at the bottom of Safari.
  2. Choose “Add to Home Screen”Scroll the list if you don't see it.
  3. Tap AddThe dragon appears beside your other apps.

It's already on your home screen. Good.

Your browser's menu will have an “Install” or “Add to Home Screen” option.

Start free

Seven sessions, no card. Then decide.

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Why I built it

My wife and my daughter speak Chinese to each other. I didn't, and I got tired of standing outside it.

We tried Chinese school. I tried the apps. None of them taught me how to get a three-year-old into the bath, which is most of what I actually needed to say.

So I built the thing I wanted. The sentences from my own evenings, said out loud until they came without thinking about them. My Chinese moved further in a few weeks than it had in a year of everything else.

I'm still adding to it.

What it costs

Seven sessions free, so you find out whether it works before you pay for it.

  • $9.99a month
  • $99.99a yearabout two months free

爸爸說中文 · made by a dad in a Chinese household

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Dad Speaks Chinese

The tutor talks, then listens. No button, just answer out loud.

The strokes are the stars. The gold is the picture someone drew through them.

Record your house

Ten minutes of dinner is enough. It gets transcribed, every word counted, and the ones your family actually says become the next thing you are taught — ranked by how often they were said at your table.

This records your family.

The audio is transcribed and then deleted — only the text and the word counts are kept. Make sure everyone at home knows it exists.

Keep going

Seven sessions was the free part. After that it is $9.99 a month, or $99.99 a year, and you can stop whenever you like.

Accent The voices only. The characters and the pinyin stay Taiwanese, because that is what the lessons are written in.
Show the characters Off leaves the pinyin and the English, which is all most people here read.
Your recordings The sound is never kept. It is turned into text as it arrives and thrown away in the same breath. What stays is the transcript and the sentences it added to your phrases, and you can delete those whenever you like.

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Bedtime reminder A nudge, once a night.
What's wrong with this?

Whatever you noticed. It'll be saved with whatever the tutor just said.