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Chinese reading guides
Sourced, honest guides on reading Chinese by coverage: how much you need, what the research thresholds mean, and how to turn your gaps into a study order.
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The 98% Comprehension Research, Honestly
Where the 95% and 98% reading-coverage figures actually come from, what the studies did and did not show, and how to apply them to Chinese without overclaiming.
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What HSK Level Is This Text?
How to find the HSK level of a piece of Chinese: paste it into the analyzer to see the level at which a reader reaches comfortable coverage, for both HSK 2.0 and 3.0.
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How Much Chinese Can You Already Read?
Paste any Chinese text and estimate your word-recognition coverage at each HSK level, then see which words to learn next. A guide to reading your own coverage honestly.
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How Many Chinese Words Do You Need to Read a Newspaper?
An honest, sourced answer to how many words and characters it takes to read Chinese news, novels, and everyday text, built on the frequency-to-coverage curve.
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The 95% and 98% Coverage Rules for Reading Chinese
What the reading-acquisition research says about how much coverage you need for extensive versus independent reading, and how to use it to pick Chinese texts at your level.
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The Best Order to Learn Chinese Words
Why learning Chinese words in frequency order gives the most reading coverage per word, and how to turn your coverage gaps into a study order that compounds.