Duolingo Chinese
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.
This extension allows users to learn Traditional or Simplified Chinese as well as see useful descriptions of characters..
Duolingo, and the Chinese course have changed a lot since this extension was built, The job on my own is too big so I'm going to open source it on GitHub.
If you're interested in collaborating please follow and start this repository:
https://github.com/robincard/chinese-duolingo (It's empty right now).
And, if you're a developer or not, feel free to join the discord which will be for developers and non-developers.
As of 2018; this extension is no longer supported. The information below is for reference only.
This extension allows users to see the meanings of characters as you learn, store character meanings and switch between traditional and simplified.
• Switch between traditional and simplified
• See word definitions
• See a list of word of learned words
• Collect a basket of words you want to learn later
• Re-hear sentences slowly, in a different voice.
If you're interested in reading any Chinese literature published before the 1950s it will be most advantageous to learn the traditional characters. Also, it is easier to read simplified if one has learned traditional Chinese, than the reverse.
0.9998
Made the delete button in the basket look like the delete button in the skills quiz.
0.9997.1.2
Made the delete button in the basket look like the delete button in the skills quiz.
Release notes 0.9997.1
Small bug fix.
Release notes 0.9997
Added a word basket
Release notes 0.9996
Added 7 lessons and two skills: Entertainment and Restaurant
Release notes 0.9995
Added 4 lessons and 1 skill: Payment
Release notes 0.9994.6
Word meaning fixes.
Release notes 0.9994.5
Added an all words list
Release notes 0.9994.3
Added pinyin to learned words list
Release notes 0.9994.3
Added pinyin to learned words list
Release notes 0.9994.2
Increased built in word bank.
Release notes 0.9994.1
Performance enhancements, clean-up of characters file.
Release notes 0.9994
Bug where traditional was not possible in practice, thanks CharlesE780046
Release notes 0.9992
FIxed bug with 'buy' character
Release notes 0.9991
Added a Taiwanese flag
Release notes 0.999
Learned words feature
Release notes 0.996
Bug fix
Release notes 0.995
Strengthen skills works again
Release notes 0.992
8 lessons and 2 skills added: Location 3 and Hobbies
Release notes 0.991.5
Mouseover hints on type boxes now work on Traditional!
Release notes 0.991.2
Huge bug fix, please update.
Release notes 0.991
Added 7 lessons and two skills People 1 and Time 2
Release notes 0.99
Flag bug
Release notes 0.98
Added further characters and traditional words
Release notes 0.96
Added a further 11 lessons (4 skills) Location 2, Time 1, Family 2, Telephone
Release notes 0.95
Fixes bug whereby ready lessons indicator is shown on non Chinese skills, features now available on Strengthen Skills feature.
Release notes 0.94
Added phrases 1, family 1, phrases 2, greeting 4, drink and time skills
Release notes 0.93
Fixed indicator bug.
Release notes 0.92
Welcome page upon installation
Release notes 0.82
Added 5 lessons; Greeting 3 and Location 1 skills
Release notes 0.81
Disabling of traditional characters now possible. Beta preview of word definitions for Greeting 1, Numbers, Name, Greeting 2, Food 1, Occupation, Contact and Nation now enabled!
Release notes 0.6
Total refactor of the code and I've released the source code at:
https://github.com/robincard/duolingo-simplified-to-traditional-chinese/tree/master
Release notes 0.5
Fixed bug that stopped characters showing on load for some Chrome users. Reduced file size from 100Kb to 29Kb
Release notes 0.4
Larger local cache, which has also been hand curated
Release notes 0.3
Bug fixes
Release notes 0.2
Doesn't apply to Japanese Kanji characters.
Latest reviews
Used to work perfectly however recently it started mixing both traditional and simplified characters in one sentence.
Often, when I hover above characters, the whole page goes blank and I have to reload the page and restart the lesson again. Could you please fix this bug?
It does not show meanings.
Inconsistent. Will sometimes render words properly but I still see a lot of simplified characters that it ignores. No rhyme or reason to it.
會很有用，但如果你不用英語學中文，沒有辦法看繁體字。比如：韓語和中文，日語和中文。T.T
Unfortunately this app slows down your computer to a crawl.
rất hay và bổ ích
好好
Most of the time the extension struggles to translate the characters and creates significant lag. Some meanings are also go missing under the characters.
Makes learning Mandarin on Duolingo better. Thanks Robin
Very useful!
The traditional chinese feature is amazing, I'm learning Chinese in Taiwan the Simplified features are useless for me.
The course basically isn't possible without this extension.
Works great! Thank you! It would also be nice to have the option for the pinyin pronunciation to appear above the text.
works great but some hints dont show
Works great! I would love a word bank with all the definitions though.
Really helpful, it translates the characters instantly! I was so excited when I found this plugin. Thank you so much!
