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Tone Game - Fun way to learn the Chinese Mandarin tones

Published by: Fernando Colaco
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Are you learning Chinese? Having trouble with the Mandarin tones?
This game was born when I moved to Beijing and decided to start learning Chinese. One of the first obstacles when I started school was definitely the Mandarin tones, and correctly identifying them. So, I had the idea of building this easy to play learning game, as it will be useful for anyone learning Chinese and wishing to learn the tones, and practice in a fun way.
While trying to build the game with my own voice, I figured out quickly it would be a disaster without a real Chinese speaker's voice. So, I asked my Chinese teacher to help (and record all the possible words, more than 1500). That's her voice you hear in the game (special thanks!).
Playing the game is very simple, and you will practice the tones and will get better along the way. Listen to the sounds, and tap the tone you think is correct, using the 4 buttons at the bottom of the screen. Correct answers get more points (bottom right), and the more you advance, the more points you get per word. Wrong answers take one life (bottom left). The quicker you react, the more points you can also get. A bonus multiplier sits on top of the score, but will decrease each second after the phrase stops playing. If you want to replay a sound, just tap its word, but you will lose the bonus if you do so. You get extra lives after you pass a certain score, just check when you will get the next extra life (bottom left). The more you advance, the bigger the phrases are, having up to 4 words. Keep in mind that those are generated randomly out of all the possible pinyin sounds, so they don't need to mean anything.
Have fun and improve your Mandarin skills!
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4.78 out of 5

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Disciple of the Way on

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Excellent except when it shows the correct tone and on the last one it is covered up by the game over sign

Worth every cent and more

Mi. 13 on

United States

I have been learning Mandarin for a while now and I just wasn’t getting the hang of the times! This little game is perfect for training the ears to hear the different tones! I would only make two suggestions to the app builder: -Add an option of showing the character as well as and also instead of the pinyin (varying the level of difficulty). -Include words with no tone, like 吗 maybe as an additional option.

Great app!

2911alison on

United States

This is exactly what I needed! (Add Chinese characters to the display for each item & I’ll change my rating to 100 stars.) Seriously, thank you to this app developer for helping us “tone-deaf” beginner students... practice practice practice...

Great addition to your Chinese Listening Toolkit

Vonrell on

United States

Fun app...hoping it helps me identify the tones more quickly. As a new student to Chinese, it will be a good way to measure my listening skills as well.

I love this thing

Anonymous98765432 on

United States

I have a few apps that do something similar but this one is special somehow. It looks and sounds good and is actually fun. I think the game aspect makes it something you'll use on a regular basis.

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App Info

Category
Education
Publisher
Fernando Colaco
Languages
English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, French, Swedish, German, Turkish, Czech, Russian
Recent release
1.1 (9 years ago )
Released on
Mar 7, 2014 (10 years ago )
Last Updated
3 months ago