工具gōng jù
Practice between lessons
Free, and nothing to sign up for. Every syllable and word here comes from the same vocabulary we teach and film in Beihai, so what you drill is what you hear on screen.
Four tools to start with
Use them on their own, or keep them open next to a video while you watch.
拼音Pinyin chart & converter
pīn yīn
Paste a sentence and read it back syllable by syllable — tone marks, tone numbers, initials, finals. Tap any syllable to hear it said out loud.
Chart · converter · audioOpen
词汇HSK vocabulary
cí huì
The HSK 1–6 word lists, with pinyin, part of speech and a sentence for each entry. Search by character, by pinyin, or by what it means in English.
HSK 1–6 · searchOpen
声调Tone practice
shēng diào
Two drills: hear a syllable and name its tone, or read a character and pick how it sounds. You get told straight away whether you were right.
Listening · tonesOpen
听写Pinyin dictation
tīng xiě
Hear the pinyin, type the characters. Ten courses that go up through HSK 1–6, twenty words a level, with stars for a clean run.
Listening · typingOpen
Where this vocabulary comes from
Every word in the HSK lists and every syllable in the tone drills turns up in something we have filmed — in a classroom, on a study trip, or out in the city with students.
