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You're a great teacher. Your students' tools aren't keeping up.
Your students are jumping between DuChinese, Anki, Quizlet, and Google Docs — spending more time managing tools than learning Chinese. HanziForge brings reading, flashcards, grammar, writing and handwriting into one platform built around their own vocabulary — and gives you a dashboard that shows what they did between sessions.
Free to start. No credit card required.
- Sign up, then turn on teacher tools from your Account page.
- Create a class code and share it with your students.
- They enter it under Join a Class. Their progress appears on your dashboard.
Your students are drowning in apps
Between your sessions, your students are cobbling together a patchwork of tools. Each one does one thing. None of them talk to each other. Vocabulary learned in one app doesn't carry over to the next.
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Reading
DuChinese, The Chairman's Bao
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Flashcards
Anki, Quizlet, Pleco
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Writing
Word, Google Docs, Key5
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Grammar
Textbooks, worksheets
Every tool is a different world. Vocabulary doesn't transfer. Progress doesn't connect.
One tool for every assignment
“Read this article and save 10 new words”
Assign the reading from your dashboard → Smart Reader → one-click vocab import → auto-enriched flashcards with audio
“Practice building sentences with this week's grammar”
Grammar Forge generates arrange-the-tiles and fill-the-blank puzzles from the student's own vocabulary
“Write a paragraph about your weekend using your new words”
The Writing Studio gives feedback beside the text — a native-style rewrite plus English explanations — and you can read their drafts from your dashboard
“Practise these characters by hand before next week”
The Handwriting Desk grades every stroke on screen, and a printable 田字格 sheet takes it to paper
Built on how languages are actually learned
Paul Nation's Four Strands · Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis
Meaning-Focused Input
Smart Reader + Grand Library
Students read self-selected texts — or one of 99 graded passages sorted to their level — with built-in scaffolding, exactly what Krashen's Input Hypothesis predicts will drive acquisition.
Meaning-Focused Output
Writing Studio
Free composition with feedback beside the text pushes students to produce language, not just recognize it.
Language-Focused Learning
Grammar Forge + Flashcards + Handwriting
Deliberate study of vocabulary, grammar patterns and characters through spaced repetition, sentence assembly and stroke-graded writing.
Fluency Development
The whole system, together
Every tool shares the same vocabulary deck — so every activity reinforces every other activity.
See what they actually did this week
Your dashboard is built for the ten minutes before a session: who studied, who didn't, which words the class keeps getting wrong.
Class codes and a roster
Create a code, share it, and every student who enters it appears on your roster with their streak, deck size and last activity. Open any student for the detail.
Assignments with reminders
Assign a reading or a vocabulary set to the whole class or to chosen students, set a due date, watch completion per student, and send a one-tap reminder to anyone who hasn't started.
Class analytics
Weekly active students, an activity heatmap, the class's at-risk words, and alerts for students who have gone quiet or whose accuracy is slipping. Export it all as CSV.
Their writing, in your hands
Read each student's evaluated drafts with the corrections and rewrite, so the next session starts from what they actually wrote. Students can keep a piece private if they choose.
Five tools. One deck.
Read
Assign any Chinese text as a reading
Students paste an article, a story, or any text you choose — or open a graded passage from the Grand Library. HanziForge segments it, shows pinyin on tap or hover, and marks the words they don't know. New vocabulary goes into their deck in one click.
Remember
Flashcards that build themselves
Every word a student adds is enriched with pinyin, a definition, an example sentence and audio. Recognition and recall cards, a schedule that adapts to them, and no hours spent formatting Anki cards.
Build
Grammar practice with their own words
Arrange-the-tiles and fill-the-blank puzzles built from the student's own deck, one grammar pattern at a time. They're not memorizing — they're learning how words fit together.
Write
A writing studio with feedback beside the text
Students write in documents that save as they type. Feedback sits next to the draft: a native-style rewrite and every correction explained in English. They revise and ask again, and you can read the drafts from your dashboard.
Handwrite
Characters, from memory
Students mark sentences they wrote and practise the characters by hand: stroke-order animation, graded tracing, then writing with the character hidden. Characters get their own review schedule, and the printable 田字格 sheet works for homework.
Recommend it with confidence
Your students get 14 days of unlimited access, then a free tier. No credit card required. Teacher tools are free.
Free
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- Every tool: Reader, Library, flashcards, Forge, Studio, Handwriting
- Unlimited AI for 14 days, then 5 AI sessions a day
- Teacher dashboard included
Recommended
Imperial Pro
$9.99/month
or $49.99 / 6 months Save 17%
or $79.99 / year Save 33%
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited AI sessions, every day
- Natural-voice audio with read-along highlighting
- Unlimited writing assists
- Cancel any time
📋 Copy & send to your students
I recommend HanziForge (hanziforge.com) as a supplement to our sessions. It combines reading, flashcards, grammar practice, writing and handwriting in one place, all built around your own vocabulary. The first 14 days are unlimited and there is a free tier after that; the Pro plan ($9.99/mo) keeps the AI practice unlimited. When you sign up, enter my class code under Account → Join a Class so I can see your progress.