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Chinese to Arabic live translation, as fast as you can speak
Free to try as a guest — no card, no install. Log in to unlock up to 10 live sessions on the free plan.
你好
مرحباً
这个多少钱？
كم سعر هذا؟
…在哪里？
أين…؟
Most Mandarin speakers who need to be understood in Arabic are not in a classroom. They are traders sorting out a container of goods bound for Dubai or Alexandria, engineers and project staff living in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt or Algeria, tourists asking for directions in Dubai or Cairo, and students settling into a new city. In each case the moment is practical and short: a price, a delivery date, a pickup point, a form. Mingle takes your spoken Mandarin and turns it into Arabic captions with optional read-aloud, in a browser, so you can keep speaking naturally instead of building sentences from a phrasebook.
- Private & Secure
- Works Anywhere
- No App Required
Real-time Translation
Instant captions as you speak.
Natural Voice Output
Hear Arabic naturally with read-aloud.
Private & Secure
Encrypted in transit, and we never sell your data.
Works Anywhere
Runs in your browser — no app required.
Perfect for real conversations
A session translates one direction only, from Chinese to Arabic. While it runs, only your Mandarin is translated; the other person's reply is not. When they answer, open the session menu, choose swap, and the current session ends, the captions clear and a new Arabic-to-Chinese session is ready. Tap the mic once more and their Arabic appears as Chinese captions. A single phone placed between the two of you is enough. If you are signed in you can also share the session so colleagues join from their own phones, which suits a meeting room better than passing one handset around.
The Dragon Mart stall in Dubai
A trader from Yiwu quotes unit prices, carton counts and lead times in Mandarin while a buyer from Cairo or Jeddah reads Arabic captions and listens to the read-aloud. When the buyer asks about payment terms in Arabic, the trader swaps to an Arabic-to-Chinese session, reads the question in Chinese captions, and answers on the next turn.
The site meeting outside Riyadh
A Chinese project engineer explains a delayed shipment and the revised installation schedule in Mandarin. The local foreman and the site clerk read the Arabic captions on one phone laid on the table, so nobody has to wait for the one bilingual colleague to come back from another site.
The first week in Cairo
A student who has only studied textbook Arabic needs to ask a landlord about the deposit, the electricity bill and the building rules. She speaks Mandarin, the landlord reads the Arabic captions or hears them read aloud, and she keeps the screen as a written record of the amounts they agreed.
Right-to-Left Captions
Clear Arabic captions rendered in correct right-to-left order.
Conversational Speed
Keeps up with natural real-world dialogue.
Read-Aloud Support
Hear Arabic naturally when you need to.
Phrasebook
Handy Phrases
Common Chinese–Arabic phrases, ready to hear out loud.
| Listen | Arabic | Chinese |
|---|---|---|
| مرحباًmarhaban | 你好 | |
| كم سعر هذا؟kam si'r hadha? | 这个多少钱？ | |
| أين…؟ayna…? | …在哪里？ | |
| شكراً جزيلاًshukran jazilan | 非常感谢 | |
| واحدwahid | 一 | |
| اثنانithnan | 二 | |
| ثلاثةthalatha | 三 | |
| هل يمكنك أن تعيد ببطء؟hal yumkinuka an tu'ida bibut'? | 请再说慢一点 |
Start in three steps
- 01
Pick two languages
Languages are already set to Chinese → Arabic — swap them anytime.
- 02
Tap the mic and allow access
One browser permission. No account required to start.
- 03
Just talk
Words appear as live captions and — with Read Aloud on — are spoken into your earbuds as natural voice, while your phone faces the other person. Talking both ways? Share the session to their phone.
The earbud moment: they talk to your phone, you hear your language
Set your phone on the table facing them and turn on Read aloud. Their voice goes into your phone’s mic; the translation plays quietly in your earbuds. Private, hands-free, no shouting into a gadget.
Any wired or Bluetooth earbuds your phone uses should work, because read-aloud plays through the phone’s normal audio output. If your phone switches to the earbuds’ microphone, choose the built-in mic under Devices so it hears them, not you.
Want them to hear you too? Tap Share session and show them the QR code: they join on their own phone in their own language, so each of you reads and hears the other without passing anything back and forth. On one phone, swap the languages from the session menu to reply instead.
What makes Arabic different
Arabic is written and read from right to left, and Mingle lays its captions out that way. Numbers inside Arabic text still read left to right, which can look odd at first. Arabic text also uses two sets of digits: the Western 0 to 9 you know, and the Eastern Arabic-Indic forms such as ٣ and ٥. Which one you meet varies by country, by document and by the person typing, so treat the figures on screen as something to confirm aloud, particularly for money, quantities and dates. Counting also differs: Chinese groups by 万, while Arabic names thousands, millions and billions, so a quoted amount is worth saying in full.
Spoken Arabic is not one voice. Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine and Maghrebi speech differ in vocabulary, pronunciation and everyday phrases, and the dialect your listener grew up with is not always the one in a textbook. Written Arabic is the shared layer, and Mingle's captions and read-aloud use that common form, with no dialect setting to switch. In practice the other person will understand you, though they may answer in their own local speech, and then the swapped session is where you check what was really said.
Some points to keep in mind when scheduling and introducing yourself. Arabic marks gender and number on many words, including the word for you, while a spoken Mandarin 你 does not, so the Arabic wording may assume a gender you did not intend; watch the captions when the choice matters. The working week also differs: Friday is the main prayer day and weekends vary from country to country and from sector to sector, so confirm days and times before travelling. Prayer times and, during Ramadan, shifted working hours can move a meeting you thought was fixed. Names are another trap: a Chinese name can be written in Arabic letters in more than one way, so keep your passport spelling in Latin letters handy.
This page covers Chinese → Arabic specifically
You need an internet connection; there is no offline mode. That matters at some sites and in some basements and warehouses, so check your signal before an important meeting. The page is built around what Chinese speakers actually find hard in Arabic: sentence structure that runs the other way, a script with its own direction, and sounds with no Mandarin equivalent.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Chinese to Arabic translation.
Will my Arabic listener see right-to-left captions?
Yes. The captions for your Mandarin are shown in Arabic script, laid out right to left, so the person across the table reads them the natural way. Your own screen shows the same session, which is useful when you want to point at a price or a date together.
Which Arabic does the other person hear, Gulf, Egyptian or Maghrebi?
Spoken Arabic differs a great deal from one country to the next, but written Arabic is shared, and the captions and read-aloud use that common form. Mingle has no dialect setting for its Arabic output. Expect a clear, general Arabic that people in Dubai, Cairo and Algiers can all follow, rather than the way a local would phrase it in the street.
Will numbers appear as 123 or as ١٢٣?
Arabic text can use either Western digits (123) or Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (١٢٣), and which one people expect depends on the country and the document. Whatever appears, read the figure on the screen together before you agree to a price, a quantity or a date. Say large amounts in full, for example 30,000 rather than a single word like 三万, and confirm the currency out loud.
How do I make sure my name is written correctly in Arabic?
A Chinese name has no single Arabic spelling; the sounds are fitted to Arabic letters in several ways, and Arabic has no letters for some Mandarin sounds. If your name matters for a contract, hotel booking or visa form, show the other person your passport spelling in Latin letters and compare it with what appears in the captions.
Do I have to install anything, and is it free to try?
Nothing to install: open mingle.fit in your phone or laptop browser, allow the microphone and start. A guest can begin without an account or a card. Signing in adds saved history and longer usage on a paid plan, and each direction of a conversation is kept as its own history entry.
Do both people need the app?
No. Everything runs in the browser. For a conversation both ways, tap Share session and show the QR code: they join on their own phone in their language, with no app and no account. On one shared phone, a session translates one direction, and you swap the languages from the session menu when they reply.
Is Mingle free to try for this language pair?
Yes — start instantly with free guest sessions, no card and no install. Paid plans unlock longer sessions and saved history.
