About us
Du Chinese started from a love story.
In 2008, Peter was living in Japan and studying Japanese. He loved learning Japanese, but as he practiced reading, he became frustrated with the time spent looking up characters in the dictionary. He felt like he was spending more time looking things up than actually reading, stopping every 5 minutes just to look up a single character.
While in Japan, Peter met his wife, Yueyuan. They fell in love and Peter has studied Chinese since 2009. The same frustrations he felt studying Japanese also applied to Chinese. There had to be a better way.
Yueyuan is originally from China and was working in Japan as an editor of Chinese language learning material and a Chinese teacher. In her spare time, she liked to write short stories. In Peter’s spare time, he liked to code apps. They realized that they could combine their skills and create a Chinese reading practice app!
Now, they have two beautiful children, a son and daughter, that they love spending time with and watching grow.
The Du Chinese team has grown a lot since it was created in 2015. We have been working hard to continually make improvements and add new and interesting stories. We are grateful to all our app users and are committed to creating the ultimate Chinese reading app for you!
