Cantone

Learn to perceive and pronounce tones.

Cantone helps you to put the tones in tonal languages.

Cantone helps learners learn to perceive or speak tones in Cantonese or Mandarin - and reinforces this knowledge with vocabulary, tone sandhi, and other activities.

We offer support for

• traditional and simplified characters.
• multiple transcription systems (Jyutping and Yale for Cantonese; Pinyin and bopomofo for Mandarin)
• English, German, Mandarin, and Cantonese user interfaces.
• light mode and dark mode

You can learn tones and words incrementally and move on to more advanced topics when ready - or you can simply practice what you already know with tasks and ther fun activities.

Perception activities tone your abilities to distinguish tones:

• Hear sounds and guess the tones.
• Match sounds to corresponding tone or word labels.

Production activities help you to speak:

• Personalize the system to you and your voice.
• Listen to exemplars adjusted for your vocal range.
• Listen to and match points in a tonal contour.
• Follow tone contours at a slower speed with pitch feedback.
• Plot attempts against canonical tone contours.

Vocabulary activities reinforce your knowledge through words.

• Learn words that differ in tone only (e.g. 買 vs. 賣).
• Match words by tone, definition, character, and pronunciation.

Tone Sandhi activities teach you about tone changes.

• Learn tone change rules.
• Listen to characters and predict the tones when the characters are put together.

Other activities help hone your abilities:

• Follow along with hilarious single syllable poems.
• Listen to and internalize the "tone melody"
• Learn common phrases.

Enjoy!

P.S. If you encounter bugs, please let me know at cantone.app@gmail.com, and I'll try to get back to you (and the bug) as quickly as possible.