The first phrase every expat in China masters. This app exists so you say it less. Survival Chinese for the moments that actually happen.
Download on the App StoreFree · iPhone · iOS 18+Duolingo teaches you "the cat drinks milk." Nobody teaches you the phone call from the delivery guy. Tingbudong covers the 30 situations China actually throws at you — and works from day one, mid-crisis.
Your phone rings, it's all rapid Chinese? Cheat sheets are the home screen. Tap a phrase for full-screen characters and loud audio — show them or play it out loud.
Allergic to dairy, not peanuts? Ayi comes Fridays? Switch the key word inside a phrase — 我对牛奶过敏 — and it stays set. Your cheat sheet speaks about your life.
Menus, WeChat messages, building notices, medicine boxes — snap them and get a lesson: pinyin, translation, word-by-word dictionary breakdown, audio.
On Apple Intelligence iPhones, on-device AI explains the tone — is your landlord being polite or firm? — and suggests a reply you can actually say. Nothing leaves your phone.
Hear what they'll actually say back — fast, blunt, real. Five-minute missions, honest review, no guilt, no cartoon owl.
Everything runs on your device. No account, no ads, no data collection. Cheat sheets work offline — exactly when China is happening to you.
From "I don't understand" to "got it."