We do not count attempts
Four tones, 21 initials, every final — free and unlimited, forever. There is no daily quota to burn through in one sitting. Paid starts where depth starts: tone pairs, sandhi, contrast pairs, HSK volume, connected speech.
Every sound in Chinese — free and unlimited
Haoting listens to your Mandarin and tells you which part of the syllable went wrong — the initial, the final, or the tone.
In development. The pinyin table and the tone guide already work, right here in the browser.
9:41
7 / 12
中
zhōng
middle · centre
Listen
zhCurl the tip of your tongue back towards the ridge behind your teeth.
Let go and the answer is already there.
9:41
7 / 12
中
zhōng
Fixing the initial
You said z, it needs zh
Your tongue stayed at your teeth. Curl the tip back — the rest of the syllable is already good.
92Tone
34Initial
71Final
Tone contour
dotted — reference · solid — you
You
Native
Again
Next
What you practise
Every sound in the language, and every place learners lose one. The first three are free and unlimited; depth is where paid starts.
Free
- ǎTones
- zhInitials
- angFinals
Depth
- 2·3Tone pairs
- 3·3Sandhi
When we are not sure, we say so
Noise, clipping, a microphone that did not pick you up — that is not a bad score, and we do not hand one out. You get “we did not catch that”, because a failing grade you earned with your microphone teaches you nothing and makes you distrust the app.
The whole syllable inventory, on one page
Every initial against every final, with the gaps left visible — the combinations Mandarin does not use are information too, and most charts hide them.
Open the pinyin tableThe tones, drawn honestly
Five contours, none of them colour-coded. The second and third tones do not differ by height; they differ by where the turn happens — and almost every textbook diagram gets this wrong.
Learn the tones