sources & credits
The lessons, sentences, dialogues, pictures, games and exercises are written and drawn by the wishyou.today team. These are the sources we checked against, and the open data and recordings we use, with thanks.
chinese
新版HSK考试大纲 (HSK 3.0 syllabus, Nov 2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation
The words, characters, handwriting lists and grammar points of every HSK level.
facts from the official syllabus
krmanik/HSK-3.0
Text extraction of the syllabus lists (words, characters, handwriting, grammar).
CC BY-SA 4.0
ivankra/hsk30
Official pinyin and word classes from the HSK 3.0 standard list.
MIT
drkameleon/complete-hsk-vocabulary
The classic HSK 2.0 lists and dictionary readings for cross-checks.
MIT
CC-CEDICT
Cross-checking readings and meanings (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
audio-cmn by hugolpz: word recordings by Yue Tan (Shtooka project), syllable recordings by Chen Wang
Native-speaker audio for words and for the tone trainer, redistributed unchanged (renamed).
CC BY-SA
Hanzi Writer by David Chanin
Stroke-order animation and the tracing quiz (loaded from jsDelivr).
MIT
hanzi-writer-data / Make Me a Hanzi (Shaunak Kishore), from Arphic Technology fonts
Character stroke data, served from cdn.wishyou.today/learning/language/chinese/strokes/ with the licence file.
Arphic Public License
japanese
JLPT word lists by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), via stephenmk/yomitan-jlpt-vocab
Estimated JLPT level of every word, and the grammar point names (the JLPT publishes no official lists).
CC BY / CC BY-SA 4.0
JMdict and KANJIDIC2, Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group
Checking readings and meanings only (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
Japanese vocabulary pronunciation audio by Tofugu and WaniKani
Native-speaker word audio.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q5287 (jpn)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for Japanese, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
AnimCJK (Copyright 2016-2026 FM&SH), derived from Arphic PL KaitiM fonts and Make Me a Hanzi
Kanji and kana stroke data, served from cdn.wishyou.today.
Arphic Public License (kana also LGPL)
korean
국립국어원 「국제 통용 한국어 표준 교육과정 적용 연구(4단계) 어휘, 문법 등급 목록」 (2017, revised 2020), National Institute of Korean Language
The words and grammar points of every level. 본 저작물은 국립국어원에서 2017년 작성하여 공공누리 제1유형으로 개방한 저작물을 이용하였습니다.
KOGL Type 1 (공공누리 제1유형)
한국어기초사전 (krdict), National Institute of Korean Language
Checking meanings and standard pronunciations only (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 2.0 KR
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q9176 (kor)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for Korean, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
hangul-writer
Hangul letter stroke data (syllables are assembled from the letters).
MIT
french
FLELex (CEFRLex project, CENTAL, UCLouvain; François, Gala, Watrin & Fairon 2014)
The level of every word; our word lists are shared under the same licence.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wiktionary, via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
Genders, plurals and forms for cross-checking (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
wordfreq (Robyn Speer) and FrequencyWords (Hermit Dave, OpenSubtitles 2018)
Word frequencies used to order the words within a level.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q150 (fra)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for French, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
spanish
Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes (Niveles de referencia)
Levels of words and grammar points are aligned with it (facts only, no text copied).
facts from the reference levels
ELELex (CEFRLex project, CENTAL, UCLouvain)
The level of every word; our word lists are shared under the same licence.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wiktionary, via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
Genders, plurals and forms for cross-checking (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
wordfreq (Robyn Speer) and FrequencyWords (Hermit Dave, OpenSubtitles 2018)
Word frequencies used to order the words within a level.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q1321 (spa)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for Spanish, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
german
Goethe-Zertifikat A1, A2 and B1 word lists, Goethe-Institut
The words of A1–B1 are aligned with them (word choice only, no examples copied).
facts from the official word lists
Wiktionary, via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
Genders, plurals and forms for cross-checking (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
wordfreq (Robyn Speer) and FrequencyWords (Hermit Dave, OpenSubtitles 2018)
Word frequencies used to order the words within a level.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q188 (deu)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for German, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
italian
Profilo della lingua italiana (Spinelli & Parizzi, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, 2010)
A1–B2 levels are aligned with it (facts only).
facts from the reference levels
Kelly list for Italian (Kilgarriff et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 48, 2014)
Word candidates and frequency bands; our word lists are shared under the same licence.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Wiktionary, via kaikki.org (wiktextract)
Genders, plurals and forms for cross-checking (our English glosses are our own).
CC BY-SA 4.0
wordfreq (Robyn Speer) and FrequencyWords (Hermit Dave, OpenSubtitles 2018)
Word frequencies used to order the words within a level.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingua Libre recordings on Wikimedia Commons (LL-Q652 (ita)), each speaker credited on the file page
Native-speaker word audio for Italian, converted to mp3.
CC0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (per file)
type
Google Fonts: Unbounded, Karla, Noto Sans SC, Noto Sans TC, Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR
Type.
SIL Open Font License
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