Literary Chinese prose into elegant, precise English — the register that separates a pass from a 良好. Grammar apps can't train it. Word lists can't train it. Only daily production in the literary register trains it.
📜 Train today's 10 sentences — free →Everyday fluency doesn't transfer. 散文 needs rhythm, precision and restraint — a register you must practise in, not around.
Too literal reads clumsy; too free loses marks. The balance only becomes instinct through daily comparison with model renderings.
TEM Part 1 dictation punishes weak listening before you ever reach translation. Listening mode doubles as your dictation gym.
Ten sentences a day in the exact 专八 register — prose style, memory and childhood, nature writing, tradition versus modernity — translate, compare with the model, hear it aloud, keep the phrases. Five minutes a day, every day until March.
Yes — free, no signup to start. After a set you can get a weekly 专八-style workout by email (also free).
Both — pick your paper. TEM-4 sentences run at advanced (C1) level; TEM-8 at full literary mastery (C2).
Yes, fully — no blocked services, no VPN, works in the WeChat browser.
You probably want the CET-4/6 edition — same trainer, pitched at the CET papers.