Comments on: 24 great resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation

By: Hanping Chinese

Hanping Chinese — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:30:06 +0000

A quick heads-up that Hanping Chinese Dictionary (Android) has most of the features mentioned above. The free (and pro) versions have a soundboard feature (I mentioned earlier in 2016) which supports both Pinyin and Zhuyin. Also there are native speaker recordings (not synthesised!) of all single syllable sounds as well as 162 erhua.

Furthermore, the pro version had an in-app product (a small additional cost) for native speaker recordings of all multiple syllable words in HSK (v2.0). That’s over 4,000 extra sounds. This unlocks tone-pairs in the soundboard feature.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4845954736942800726

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:16:45 +0000

This tool lets you check your pronunciation, including tones: https://accentlab.net/mandarin_words You speak into the microphone, and it will transcribe what you said into Pīnyīn. It also lets you practice HSK vocabulary.

By: Hanping Chinese

Hanping Chinese — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:59:09 +0000

In reply to Hanping Chinese.

Hanping SoundBox is now rolled into our main Chinese dictionary apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4845954736942800726

By: Hanping Chinese

Hanping Chinese — Sun, 29 May 2016 02:55:39 +0000

Please can you add our Hanping Chinese SoundBox app for Android? It includes all single-syllable pronunciations (free) as well as all tone-pairs (a limited number for free as well as thousands more for a small in-app purchase). Supports both Pinyin and Zhuyin: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.soundbox

Also, our Hanping Chinese Dictionary app includes studio-quality multi-syllable audio recordings (HSK1 for free, HSK2-5 as in-app purchase, HSK6 coming soon).

By: george

george — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:27:01 +0000

Here in southern Taiwan, if I talked with a standard Beijing phonology — nobody would talk with me after a few opening words.

To put it simply, phonology varies from location to location and 500 kilometers can shift everything. It is the same in the USA.

So after all the ‘formal’ introduction, one really needs to just use local resources. For me, that is TV and radio.

But I did spend six months of copying the Ba-Pa-Ma-Fa chart once a day, then another six months copying the Roman Pinyin chart. The key to a good start is to spend 15 minutes a day on this. And to be willing to spend at least one month per year in phonology revisions.

Don’t get sloppy and forgetful.

By: lechuan

lechuan — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:23:02 +0000

Yang Yang’s video pinyin chart is also pretty awesome.

By: Xiaofeng

Xiaofeng — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:56:51 +0000

A few more:
Arch Chinese’s Pinyin Table: http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_pinyin.html (similar to the few you listed under “basic sound references”)
Pinyin Practice: http://pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm (great site for listening practice)
iFlyDictation: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iflydictation/id411611739?mt=8 (my students love using this app to test their own pronunciation)

By: Suada

Suada — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:59:40 +0000

I definitely would add Google hangouts with Yangyang Cheng. She has a knack of explaining pinyin in an interesting and clear way.