HearMandarinEars before eyes.
Listen first. Then look.
A little bird. A whole world.
Follow
your ears.
Learn Mandarin by ear.
A free map. A friend to explore it with.
A room to explore
The map is open. Choose a room or explore the room list below.
The illustrated map is shown. All rooms are available below.
selected.
The illustrated tour is available.
Whole map ↖
Explore up close ↘
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A reference shape, not a score. Drawing is optional.
Dashed: reference curve. A guide, not a score.
Dashed: reference curve. Solid: your drawing. A guide, not a score.
High and level.
Low to high.
Down, then up.
High to low.
Listen to the high tone
Listen to the rising tone
Listen to the dipping tone
Listen to the falling tone
A drawing surface for a high tone. You can also show the reference curve without drawing.
A drawing surface for a rising tone. You can also show the reference curve without drawing.
A drawing surface for a dipping tone. You can also show the reference curve without drawing.
A drawing surface for a falling tone. You can also show the reference curve without drawing.
- Words
- Stories
- Tones
- Survival
- Practice
- Radicals
- Slang
- Grammar
- Find words at your level. Follow the official word map.
- Listen to a story you can follow, with words checked against its band.
- Hear how pitch changes a word. Explore tones, syllable by syllable.
- Chinese for the everyday scenes you want to understand.
- Listen, choose, match. Or draw the pitch you hear.
- Explore the building blocks that characters share.
- Explore the Chinese that people use in informal conversations.
- See how sentence patterns fit together.
Choose your own way in
Where shall we go?
New to Chinese? Start with the tones.
Already learning? Find a story at your level.
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Ears before eyes
Start with
a sound.
Listen first. Then uncover the words.
The bird has something to say.
Show what you heard
你好 Hello. Hi.
42,886 recordings. The same voice, from words to stories.
Try drawing a toneIn the practice room
Hear the shape.
Draw the tone.
Listen to the pitch. Draw what you hear.
Replay with a reference curve, or just listen.
HighLowDraw from left to right
A reference shape, not a score. Drawing is optional.
Continue to tone drawingThe bird’s method
A whole map.
Your own pace.
11,147 words across seven bands.
11,000 current-list words, plus 147 legacy entries for comparison. 11,130 words with audio.
Open the word map ↗Never a word above your level.
Graded readers are checked against the official word lists. The level is a promise you can verify.
Mercy is a feature.
A missed day does not reset your progress. A wrong answer is a chance to try again.
Honest edges.
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