Practice
Targeted drills for speaking, writing, tones and everyday topics.
Speaking
Read aloud any word or sentence and see your pitch against each tone.
Picture quiz
Name what you see, and answer questions about little scenes: what's on the table, where the cat is, how many apples.
Handwriting
Write the characters you have learned, stroke by stroke.
Tone pairs
All 20 two-syllable tone combinations. Hear them, name them, say them.
Minimal pairs
Hear one of two similar words and pick which it was.
- zh vs zinitial
- ch vs cinitial
- sh vs sinitial
- z vs c (aspiration)initial
- j vs zhinitial
- q vs chinitial
- x vs shinitial
- j vs q (aspiration)initial
- ü vs ufinal
- -n vs -ngfinal
- e ('uh') vs ou ('oh')final
- r vs linitial
- b vs p (aspiration)initial
- d vs t (aspiration)initial
- g vs k (aspiration)initial
- Same sounds, different tonestone
- Tone 2 vs tone 3tone
Everyday topics
Numbers, time, dates, prices, measure words and more.



