Read real Chinese books.
Remember every word.
Tap any word while you read — Insperium tracks it, drills it, and brings it back right before you’d forget it. 64 graded readers, six difficulty levels per story, one spaced-repetition engine under it all.
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This is the actual reader — tap the dotted words.
Not sure where to start?
Take the free 2-minute reading test — real words from our frequency corpus — and find the book level where you know almost every word on the page.
Read the story. Learn every word in it.
Each book is a full course. Read it freely with pinyin and karaoke audio, then drill its vocabulary chapter by chapter — backed by the same spaced repetition engine that powers the rest of Insperium.
- Reading-coverage trackingWatch your “you can read X% of this book” climb as the frequent words lock in.
- Spaced-repetition reviewsEvery word enters a Leitner schedule and resurfaces exactly when you’re about to forget it.
- Karaoke audio + book examplesNative audio that highlights as you read, and example sentences pulled straight from the book.
Legend of the White Snake
5409 字312 / 345 words known
Long, long ago, there was a white snake.
She lived on a very big mountain.
See the whole thing in 100 seconds.
A narrated tour of one book — the reader, the toggles, the drill, the reviews — with the real narration and the real screens.
100 seconds · the real book, the real screens · Insperium Chinese
Learn the language. Inherit the stories.
Fast, frequency-first language learning comes first — but these aren’t throwaway textbook dialogues. You’re reading the stories every educated Chinese speaker grew up on, and the world’s great classics beside them — graded to exactly your level.
Journey to the West西游记
Classic of Mountains and Seas山海经
Legend of the White Snake白蛇传
The Butterfly Lovers梁山伯与祝英台
Moby Dick白鲸
A Christmas Carol圣诞颂歌Language first, always
Frequency-ranked vocabulary, spaced repetition, and text written for your exact level — the fastest honest route from your first words to real reading.
A cultural education, at your level
The Three Kingdoms, the Monkey King, the White Snake — the stories behind a thousand idioms and references — plus Dickens, Verne and Homer to read a world you already love, in Chinese.
Fully illustrated, cover to cover
Every chapter of every book carries original artwork. Reading in a new language is hard work — the pages shouldn’t feel like it. Immersion starts with wanting to turn the page.
Own the classics.
The numbered Insperium collection — buy a book once and get all six graded versions, from your first A1 read to the full C1 text.
Master the characters, in the order that pays off fastest.
A standalone character-only course built on real corpus frequency. Learn the characters that unlock the most text first, and set a coverage goal — the top 1,000 characters already cover ~89% of everyday Chinese.
Explore Character Mastery- Frequency-ranked, goal-drivenPick a target (1,000 → 89%, 2,500 → 98%…) and the course paces you toward it.
- Lookalike disambiguationConfusable characters (己 / 已 / 巳) are grouped so you learn the differences, not the mix-ups.
- Automatic leech detectionThe characters that keep tripping you up get flagged and given extra attention.
Try it — these are the app’s real screens: the learning drill and the review room.
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Learn the words for the life you actually live.
Eighteen topic courses — Work, Travel, Food, Health, Daily Life and more — each one a frequency-ranked deck of the words that domain really uses. Pick the topics that matter to you, set your level from A1 to C1, then tune the deck word by word: mark what you already know, ignore what you’ll never need, and drill only what’s left.
It’s the same spaced-repetition engine that powers the rest of Insperium — pointed exactly where you want it, so every minute goes to vocabulary you’ll actually use.
- Focus the topics you care aboutZoom in on one domain or several — your dashboard tracks where you are in each.
- Most-common words firstEvery topic is frequency-ranked and split A1–C1, so you start small and build up.
- Mark known, ignore the restAlready know a word? Mark it. Don’t need it? Ignore it. The course adapts to you.
Try it — switch levels, mark a word Known, ignore another. The counts and your study list update live.
Nature & Environment
+ 17 more topics10 to learn · 0 known · 0 ignored
Eighteen topics in all — focus one, or focus them all.
How it works
Three steps from “I know nothing” to reading your first book.
Take a 2-minute placement
A quick diagnostic finds your level so you start exactly where you should — no slogging through words you already know.
Get a daily plan
Your AI Study Coach blends new words and due reviews into a session sized to the time you have.
Read & drill — it sticks
Open a book or a character set, learn the words, and let spaced repetition keep them in long-term memory.
Simple pricing
Start free for 7 days. Books and Character Mastery are both included in Pro.
Free trial
- Try the Study Coach
- Sample the first book
- Up to ~100 words
- No commitment
Pro Monthly
- Everything in Insperium
- All interactive books
- Character Mastery course
- Unlimited words & reviews
- Karaoke audio
Pro Annual
Save 33%- Everything in Pro Monthly
- Two months free
- Best value for serious learners
Questions
Do I need to know any Chinese to start?
No. A quick placement test finds your level so you begin exactly where you should — beginners start from the very first words.
Is everything included in one subscription?
Pro includes everything — Interactive Books, Character Mastery, and the Topic courses. Prefer not to subscribe? Any book can be bought on its own for $4.99 (all six levels, yours forever), and the First 500 Characters course is a one-time purchase too.
How is this different from flashcard apps?
Insperium is frequency-first and context-rich: you learn the words that unlock the most Chinese, in real sentences and stories, with spaced repetition scheduling each review for right before you’d forget.
Can I cancel any time?
Any time, from your settings. The 7-day trial lets you try the whole thing first.