Settings

Personalize MDBG Chinese Reader to fit the way your learn today--and tomorrow

Just starting to learn Chinese? You'll appreciate how Chinese Reader can hide advanced details and let you focus on the meanings. Hear words read aloud at a deliberate pace as you concentrate on hearing the tones.

Intermediate learner? Show all the details (HSK, Pinyin, tone numbers, definitions, ColorTones, etc.) that are useful to you. As your proficiency increases, practice your conversational Chinese with pronunciations at full speed. Take advantage of Chinese Reader's custom dictionaries* and export capabilities to work with other learning tools.

*Some features are supported only in Standard, Professional and Ultimate Editions.

  Main

Startup and popup window options

  Show

Select only the details (Pinyin, tone numbers, definitions, ColorTones, etc.) you want to display

  Speech*

Enhance your learning by hearing Chinese read aloud to you

  Auto-Translate

Highlight Chinese text and let the popup windows show you the meaning

  Copy+ / Export

Enter/export Chinese text, pronunciations and definitions into other programs. Now supports Anki!

  Popup

(Optional) Fine tune the way popup windows appear and respond to you

  Hotkeys

Quickly access popular functions with these keyboard accelerators

  Services

(Optional) Add web services (e.g., images from Amazon.com)

  Dictionaries

Show the meanings of words from your custom dictionaries--or other language dictionaries

  History

Keep track of words and phrases you've seen recently

  Advanced

(Optional) Additional settings