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Little Lantern for YouTube

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Interactive subtitles, word meanings and HSK 1–6 grammar points.

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The Little Lantern extension running on a YouTube video: annotated Chinese subtitles with pinyin and English, a timed transcript panel on the right, and a pop-up dictionary card for 跟 (gēn) with Needs practice, Learning and Known buttons.
A Little Lantern learner's review decks — Learning Words with 34 cards due and Holiday Vocabulary with 3 due, each showing New, Needs practice, Learning and Known progress — above nine review modes: flip card, guided write, meaning, pinyin, listening, fill the gap, sentence builder, type pinyin and write hanzi.

Adaptive review

Our reviews change with you.

Every word you save comes back the way you need it — flip cards, pinyin, listening, writing and more — and the mix adapts as each word moves from new to known.

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Graded reading

Turn every story into a lesson.

Tap any word for its meaning, discover grammar in context, and track what you’re still learning as you read.

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A Little Lantern graded story being read: two story cards (Little Sheep Cloud, Going to the Park), an annotated Chinese sentence with a pop-up dictionary card for 住 (zhù) and a grammar panel explaining an existential sentence with V着.

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