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title: "Chinese Pen Pal for Beginners: Letters at Your Level, Read Aloud | Mandarin The Wild"
description: "Get a Chinese pen pal who writes at your level. 小雨 sends short letters in easy Chinese, HSK 1 to 3, read aloud, every word one tap from its meaning. Write back in one tap and her answer arrives the next morning."
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author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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Free · A new letter each morning

# A Chinese pen pal at your level

小雨 writes you short letters in Chinese you can actually read. Tap any word for its meaning, hear her read it, and write back in one tap. Her answer arrives the next morning.

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小雨 XiǎoyǔLetter 1

你好！我叫小雨。

我是你的新笔友。

我住在中国成都，今年二十四岁。

我和奶奶住在一起，家里还有一只小猫，它叫包子。

我在学英语，你在学中文。我们一起学习吧！

你给我回信，我明天早上就回你。

你喜欢猫还是狗？

小雨

## Write back to 小雨

Sending takes a free account, so her answer has somewhere to arrive.

## Now hear it in a real story

[**十两饺子**How to order dumplings in ChineseHSK 1 · 1 minRead it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/how-to-order-dumplings-in-chinese)

## How it works

### She writes

A short letter in Chinese you can read, about her life in 成都: tea, hotpot, her grandma and a cat called Baozi. Tap any word for its meaning and sound, or press Listen to hear her read it.

### You answer in one tap

Each letter ends on one question and three answers, each a Chinese sentence about you. Pick the true one and it’s sent.

### Her answer comes in the morning

Her next letter answers yours. Words you keep from her letters come back in Review, so what you read sticks.

## Questions

### Is 小雨 a real person?

No. 小雨 (Xiǎoyǔ) is a character we write: a young woman in Chengdu who lives with her grandma and a cat called Baozi, and who is learning English while you learn Chinese. Her letters are written for learners like you, and each one answers the reply you sent her.

### What level are the letters?

Her first letters use only HSK 1 and 2 words, plus a few story words like 成都 and 火锅. Over the first weeks they grow towards HSK 3, a little at a time. Tap any word for its pinyin, meaning and sound, and press English to see a line in English.

### How often does she write?

One letter each time you write back. Answer today and her next letter is there tomorrow morning. Miss a day and she simply waits: nothing is lost and nothing piles up.

### Does it cost anything?

No. Reading her first letter needs no account. Writing back takes a free account, so her answer has somewhere to arrive.

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