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Learn Chinese
by ear

Nobody falls into Chinese by accident. If you chose it, you already know the deal: tones, speed, and 汉字. Dictation trains all three at once — hear a real sentence, type it, see every character you missed.

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Works on your phone · No account · No install · 51,029 sentences from real native speakers


Why dictation

Characters you can hear, not just read

Reading Chinese and hearing Chinese are different skills — a sentence you'd read in two seconds can be opaque at native speed. Dictation closes that gap: your ear must resolve the tones and your fingers must commit to the exact characters. Useful all the way up to AP Chinese and HSK listening sections.

STEP 01

Listen

51,029 real sentences read by native Mandarin speakers — not synthesized voices. Simplified script.

STEP 02

Type what you hear

Type the characters with your pinyin IME, exactly as you heard them. No word bank, no hints.

STEP 03

Compare

Every miss is shown character by character. An English gloss appears when you get it wrong.

STEP 04

Review on schedule

Spaced repetition brings hard sentences back right before you'd forget them.


Honest expectations

This is hard on purpose

You will fail most sentences at first — Mandarin at native speed is one of the hardest listening targets there is, which is exactly why deliberate practice on it pays. No streaks, no gems, no mascot. Just real audio, a text box, and an algorithm that remembers what you miss.

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