Game of Tones - Learn Chinese

Train your ear for Chinese Mandarin tones. Listen to real recorded syllables, choose the correct tone, build your score, and practice single and multi-syllable pinyin.

Learning Chinese? Mandarin tones can be easy to understand on paper, but recognizing them quickly by ear is a different challenge.

Game of Tones is a simple listening game designed to help you practice the four tones of Mandarin Chinese

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Listen to a recorded Chinese syllable or pinyin combination, then tap the matching tone. As you progress, the game gets faster and the combinations become more challenging.

Miss a tone and the correct answer is shown before the game continues. Keep listening, improve your accuracy, and try to beat your best score.

FEATURES

• Practice the four Mandarin Chinese tones by ear • Learn to recognize Chinese tones through listening • Single and multi-syllable pinyin combinations • Chinese audio recorded with a Chinese teacher • Increasing speed and difficulty • Score, accuracy and best-run tracking • Quick games that are easy to replay • No account or sign-in required

Game of Tones originally started in 2013 when I moved to China and began learning Chinese in Beijing. Mandarin tones were one of the first things I wanted to practice outside class, so I asked my Chinese teacher to help record the audio and turned the exercise into a small game. Yep, That's her voice, thanks a lot WuYuan teacher!

The idea is deliberately simple: listen, choose the tone, repeat, and gradually train your ear and become familiar with the mandarin tones naturally.

If you are learning Chinese, studying Mandarin pronunciation, practicing pinyin, or simply having trouble hearing the difference between Chinese tones, Game of Tones gives you a quick and focused way to practice in a natural way, and fun and challenging at the same time.