Drill
Mandarin tone trainer
Listen to a real word and name the tone you heard. Mandarin has four lexical tones plus the neutral tone, and the pairs adults reliably mix up are tone 2 against tone 3 and tone 1 against tone 4. Every syllable here is a word that exists, so you pick up vocabulary while you train your ear.
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Which tone did you hear?
shou
Every syllable is a real Mandarin word drawn from the first 1,200 words of the frequency list, spoken from the same recordings the word pages use. Nothing here asks you to type Chinese characters.