Hanzijo makes tones visible and audible: every syllable is coloured by its tone and has native audio, a tone trainer drills you on telling them apart, and shadowing checks how you say them.
Every syllable in Hanzijo is coloured by its tone, with the neutral tone shown too, so the tone becomes part of how the word looks. After a few weeks, a word in the wrong colour starts to look wrong.
Hearing the difference between mā and mà is a skill of its own. Hanzijo’s tone trainer plays syllables and asks you which tone you heard, so you build recognition before you have to produce it. Try the idea for free in the tone listening challenge.
In the 266 conversations, shadowing mode has you say each line out loud while speech recognition checks your pronunciation, so you find out which tones slip in real sentences, not only in single syllables.
Dictation lessons cut from real Chinese videos make you catch tones in natural speech, where they are shorter and run together.
Every syllable is colour-coded by tone with native audio, a tone trainer drills recognition, and shadowing with speech recognition checks your own pronunciation.
Yes. The tone trainer and shadowing give you feedback on your own, and the dictation lessons train your ear for natural speed.
The rules are explained on this site in Chinese tone change rules, and you hear them applied in the app’s native audio.
Yes. The free tone listening challenge plays one word and asks you to pick it from words that differ only in tone.
Free to download on iPhone. One Premium account unlocks Kanjijo, Hanzijo and Hanguljo.
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