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Mandarin Pathways

Settings

Language / Bahasa

Interface language. Dictionary definitions stay in English for now.

Theme

Light, dark, or match your device.

Study goals

Your learning goals, daily target, and target band/exam date.

Edit

Study focus

Nudges Today's Path budgets and bonus recommendations toward what matters most to you.

Placement test

Not sure which HSK band to start at? Take a quick band-by-band test.

Start

Daily new words

Default number of new words to introduce per review session.

Review session cap

Maximum due cards per session — big backlogs are smoothed across sessions instead of hitting you all at once. 0 = unlimited.

Weekly goal

How many days a week you're aiming to practice — shown on the streak card.

Stroke hints

Show the next-stroke hint after this many misses on a stroke. Off = figure it out yourself (strict mode always hides hints).

Pause studying

Pick a return date and Today's Path goes quiet until then — nothing is lost, it'll all be waiting.

Back from a break?

Spread all overdue cards evenly over the next 7 days instead of facing the whole pile today. FSRS memory state is untouched.

Traditional characters

Show 繁體 alongside simplified in the word lists.

Reduce motion

Minimise animations and transitions across the app.

Larger text

Increase the interface font size for easier reading.

Tone marking

Add tone numbers next to pinyin so tones don't rely on colour alone.

Low-bandwidth mode

Hides the homepage photo and stops audio from auto-playing across drills — tap the play button whenever you want to hear it.

Export progress

Download everything (practice stats, reviews, streak) as a JSON file.

Import progress

Restore from a previously exported file. Replaces current data.

Load demo data

Fill the app with a 24-day streak, heatmap history, and an active review deck — for demos.

Reset everything

Erase all progress and settings.

Offline & storage

Download a band's character stroke-data so writing practice and review keep working with no connection.

No offline service worker is active in this environment (e.g. the dev server) — downloading still warms your browser's normal cache instead.

App storage

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HSK 1

~0.6 MB

HSK 2

~1.0 MB

HSK 3

~1.3 MB