Chinese Pinyin Trainer Lite

Pinyin Trainer will improve your Chinese listening and speaking skills!

Chinese Pinyin Trainer Lite - Master Mandarin Pinyin

"Chinese Pinyin Trainer Lite" is an interactive app designed to enhance your Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking skills through Pinyin. With nearly 2,000 audio recordings, it trains users on tonal distinctions and Pinyin initials, making it ideal for both beginners and advanced learners. The app features various question-and-answer methods, a guide to reading Pinyin, and support for Zhuyin and Numeric Pinyin testing, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
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Version: 3.0.0-lite (Last updated: 2023-10-10)
Creation date: 2011-05-30
Permissions
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

Master the sounds of Mandarin Chinese with ease!

No matter if you're a beginner or a long-time student of Chinese, its tonal nature can catch you out and even cause some serious embarrassment...

Pinyin Trainer will help you master those tones using Pinyin, the standard romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. With almost 2,000 individual audio recordings and a variety of question-and-answer methods, it'll keep you on your toes and improve your Chinese listening skills like nothing else. Plus, it's got a complete guide to reading Chinese with the Pinyin system built right in.

Features:

★ Score by tapping the words that you hear

★ Train both Chinese tones and Pinyin "initials" sounds, to help you distinguish between commonly-confused words

★ Integrates with our Chinese-English dictionary to provide potential definitions for Pinyin words

★ In tone sketching mode, answer tone questions by drawing Pinyin tones with your fingers!

★ Almost 2,000 high quality original audio recordings

★ Free guide to reading Pinyin, with a complete index of one-syllable Chinese sounds

★ As of late 2023, we now support Zhuyin and Numeric Pinyin testing!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Good for training tone pairs
  • Useful for learning Mandarin tones
Cons
  • Limited functionality in free version
  • Frequent app crashes and login issues
  • Lack of English translations for words
  • No visible learning progress or statistics
Most mentioned
  • Crashes when logging in
  • Very limited for free version
  • Issues with tone recognition, especially for the third tone
User reviews
Very limited for free version. But it is good at all.
by rAhMa aHmEd, 2024-08-18

I studying--this -I like this--thanks alot--
by A Google user, 2019-12-04

Works for less than a minute before you have to pay
by A Google user, 2019-09-06
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