Most apps let you tap through flashcards and call it progress. Myra teaches Chinese like a real classroom: 8-part lessons with an AI tutor, speech-first practice from day one, and a mastery gate that scores all four skills — so you can't fake your way to fluency.
Every lesson has two halves. The first is an 8-part class, taught like a private tutor. The second is game-based practice sessions, and a mastery gate decides when you've truly finished the lesson.
Meet new words with illustrations and tone contours; hear the dialogue three times; translate both ways; learn the grammar; then chat with the AI tutor using the very words you just learned. It ends with a gate: score 80% or more to unlock the games, and any word you miss gets a 30-second review of that exact word — nobody gets flunked.
Each practice session is 8 games assembled from a recipe you pick below. To finish the lesson you have to pass the mastery gate: Myra's algorithm scores you across all four skills — listening, speaking, reading, writing — and if any one is weak, the gate stays shut. No coasting to the finish line.
When you pick up too many new words, Myra automatically deals you a review session of your weakest old words before letting you move on. It won't let you learn 20 new words while quietly dropping 20 old ones.
You pick a recipe to match your mood and situation, and the server pours the lesson's vocabulary into all 8 games. Every recipe keeps the same rhythm: open with something light, never two draining games in a row, and always end on a finale worth waiting for.
All four skills — listening, speaking, reading, writing — two games each. Ends with a real conversation.
All gentle, hint-friendly games; speaking is just repeat-and-dub, no free speech.
Ramps up: retell mid-session, free writing, and ends with a debate against the AI.
Reading and writing only — study in total silence, no mic required.
All quick-reflex games, about 20 minutes. Ends with a Listening sprint rematch.
Four ear-training games; you only speak to confirm what you heard.
Every other game opens the mic, from repeat-after-me to the Final battle.
Focus on conversational reflexes: texting, dialogue, then a Final battle using only today's words.
Just tap — no mic, no typing. Perfect for a lazy day.
No re-teaching — straight into the test, and ends with a debate.
A session is paced like a level in a game: a light warm-up, peaks with breathers in between, and a closing boss. There are never two heavy games back to back, so you finish on a high instead of burned out.
The same set of words passes through all 8 games from 8 different angles: listening, speaking, reading, writing. Meeting a word again and again in many contexts is the most durable way to remember it, and the mastery gate makes sure you can't slip through on luck.
Most apps grade you on multiple choice. Myra puts a mic in front of you from the very first lesson and scores your pronunciation and tones word by word — and the mastery gate won't open until your speaking catches up to your reading.
Feed Myra your class handout or a PDF and it pulls out the vocabulary and grammar, then builds a full set of games from it — your teacher's material becomes daily practice. Your files are read once, then discarded.
Look at an image and speak; the AI grades you on the details you had to mention.
No text — hear a sentence, then say it back from audio memory.
Arrange word pieces into a complete Chinese sentence.
An end-of-session boss fight: a conversation using only the words you just learned, with word chips lighting up green ✓ as you say them.
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Coming soonI started learning Chinese at a school in Da Nang in 2023. Second-highest scores in class, up to 8 hours of homework a day. Then I noticed: almost all of it was word recognition. When it came to actually writing and speaking, I got far too few reps. On that path you can ace HSK tests and still not speak.
I tried Duolingo, HelloChinese, Memrise. At best they let me shadow model sentences; I still could not produce words of my own, so I stayed hesitant around native speakers. I found a tutor on Preply, 150+ hours over 2 years. She got me speaking much more, but there was no homework between classes.
Myra fills exactly that gap: I feed her lessons into the app, it extracts the vocab and grammar, and generates games that make me actually speak and write. I am not native-natural yet, but I am getting there, and I use Myra every day, both to review and to learn new lessons from its curriculum.