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Literate Chinese — Offline Archive

An offline archive of the free graded short stories from LiterateLanguages.com. 279 stories across 7 difficulty levels, every word annotated with the source’s own pinyin, English gloss, and Simplified/Traditional pair, with a sentence-by-sentence English translation. For personal study only.

Beginner
12 graded stories
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HSK 1
34 graded stories
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HSK 2
123 graded stories
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HSK 3
75 graded stories
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HSK 4
22 graded stories
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HSK 5
6 graded stories
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HSK 6
7 graded stories
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Data: data/*.json · regenerate with node tools/scrape.mjs && node tools/build.mjs (add --limit N to the scrape for a pilot). Each story page links back to its original page on the source site.