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Kaiyan · 开眼

Chinese and English through reading, listening and the words you meet along the way.

Kaiyan reading Rainy Evening with a contextual definition for evening and story audio controls.View full size ↗
In the project

A word stays attached to its sentence. Rainy Evening brings pinyin, meaning and prepared listening into one reading view.

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Public interface · signed-out visitor · 7 September 2026
Revision: Image 87fd95e9e2f7

My role
Product owner and builder across reading, listening, contextual study and review.
Key decision
Reading is available without an account. Accounts are optional, and personal imports and source texts are not uploaded automatically.
Evidence
Public web reader and screenshots of the reading interface.
Source
The source code is private. The web reader is public; personal study material remains private.

Learn inside a story.

The starting point

Looking up a word can break the flow of reading. Returning to study also means finding the passage, the sentence and the help that mattered last time.

What I built

Kaiyan makes reading the centre of language study. Chinese and English passages bring pronunciation, word lookup and listening into the same place. Saved words retain their context, so review can lead back to the sentence that first made them interesting.

The wider project includes native reading and curation workflows, structured imports and contextual review. The distinction matters: generated or imported text needs to become dependable study material, with enough control to suit a daily reading habit.

It is an ongoing learning product, shaped by the experience of returning to an unfinished book, listening to a passage and gradually needing less help with it.

Closer to the work

Interfaces & outputs
Kaiyan Today screen offering to resume Rainy Evening at line one.View full size ↗
In the project

Returning to Today brings the unfinished reading back. This progress belongs only to the disposable visitor browser used for this capture.

About this image

Public interface · signed-out visitor · 7 September 2026
Revision: Image 9b4b96667744

Kaiyan public Chinese reading catalogue with search and level filters.View full size ↗
In the project

The public catalogue can be explored before creating an account. Language, level and topic help narrow the next reading.

About this image

Public interface · signed-out visitor · 7 September 2026
Revision: Image 0e220369b091

How it connects

Return to the sentence.

Reading, help and repetition work best when they remain connected.

  1. 01

    Read & listen

    Choose a public passage and use its prepared narration.

  2. 02

    Notice a word

    Open meaning and pronunciation in the context of the sentence.

  3. 03

    Come back

    Resume the reading from Today; saved words have their own review path.

The captures use a signed-out visitor and device-local progress. No private account or personal library is shown.
Diagram source

Verified workflow diagram · reviewed 7 September 2026
Source revision: 955cedd1dd0a