Immersive Chinese

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4,8
1,82K reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this app

• The most efficient way to learn spoken Chinese.
• More than 7500 high-quality audio recordings.
• Uses the "comprehensible input" method of language learning, providing you with lots of easy to understand Chinese sentences that gradually increase in difficulty.
• Powerful revision tools that allow you to create highly-customised study sessions.
• Includes separate slow and normal speed recordings. Hear every detail in the slow version.
• Choice of simplified or traditional characters.
• Currently includes 185 lessons and more than 4500 unique sentences
• 36 lessons are available for free, and a full subscription costs just a few dollars.
• Save custom lists of vocabulary and sentences and generate study sessions from them.
• Each line of text (translation, pinyin or Chinese characters) can be individually revealed and hidden.
• Full offline use supported (all files can be downloaded and stored locally).
• Detailed notes and definitions.
• Repetition Training allows you to drill your listening and hear a huge volume of comprehensible input covering the exact material you want to practice.
• Highly customisable audio playback (set the exact time delay between sentences).
• Detailed pronunciation guide.
• Mix of individual sentences and short stories.
• Audio recorded by a professional broadcaster with perfectly standard Mandarin.
• Ideal to use alongside other popular study tools such as Pleco or Skritter.
• Integrates fully with the desktop web browser version (found at www.immersivechinese.com).

Natural and Intuitive Way to Learn Spoken Chinese

The Serial Course contains months worth of content and is designed to take you from absolute beginner all the way to intermediate level. It starts out with extremely simple sentences and gently builds on that, only introducing new material very gradually. The content is carefully designed so that you are never confronted with a word you don't know. The aim of the course is to give you the essential building blocks for forming practical sentences of your own. It naturally integrates spaced repetition so that as you move forward you are continually revising previous content.

Powerful Revision Features

Research into language acquisition has shown that repetition of comprehensible content is one of the most effective ways of learning a language. Repetition Training is a core feature of Immersive Chinese that allows you to play a specific selection of content on a continuous loop according to a number of different settings. You can set the specific time delay before and after each sentence, use normal speed or slow recordings, repeat each sentence a certain number of times, and use a random or sequential order. You can also add custom filters, so you only study the exact material you want to.

Immersive Chinese uses meticulous course design and quality audio content to provide the best way to learn spoken Chinese from scratch. Give it a try and start making progress today.
Updated on
04 Nov 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data isn’t encrypted
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4,8
1,73K reviews
Amelia J
26 December 2023
This is one of the best apps I've encountered for learning Mandarin. I highly recommend it! I use it in several ways: 1) to practice my listening comprehension & pronunciation, whilst going for a walk, I will set it to repeat sentences in Chinese (in levels I've been through) 3 times, repeating after each time. It's really handy that I can change the delay settings and number of repetitions, and I also really like that there is a female and male reader. 2) to practice reading..(ran out of space)
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Huw Howell
03 November 2023
This app is one of the best I have found for studying Mandarin. It has a nice grading system, clean design and is reasonably priced to unlock all the material. I especially like that I can choose whether to hide the characters, pinyin or translation on the flashcards (I like that I can have them all turned off to focus solely on listening practice). The app also introduces new vocabulary at a nice pace. Overall, a very useful resource for studying Mandarin.
9 people found this review helpful
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chris lawton
29 August 2020
excellent App, can choose both traditional characters and simplified. Very clear and easy to understand with lots of daily life events, hopefully even more content will be added in the future, deserves 5 stars. Dev is also very helpful and quick to respond to any problems. Ive been using this app for more than 2 years and its been further developed, lots of useful sentences. I often use it by looking at the English translation and try to figure out the Chinese sentence before listening/reading.
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Immersive Chinese
29 August 2020
This issue you encountered previously should now be fixed. I'm really happy that you've been using the app for so long, I think you were one of the very first people to download it. I'll try to keep improving it and adding more content.

What's new

Some lesson data is now provided locally to avoid loading from the server on first open.
Display and performance improvements.