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听写tīng xiě

Pinyin dictation

You hear the pinyin, then type the characters. Each level is twenty words, scored with stars, and every word comes from the same lists we teach and film in Beihai.

A student trying on hanfu during a cultural afternoon
Trying on hanfu
A paper-cutting workshop at school
Students in traditional dress at the school

10 courses, from everyday phrases to HSK 6

Start wherever your class is. Every level is twenty words and takes a few minutes, so it fits between lessons.

The words come from somewhere real

Dictation is dull if the words mean nothing to you. These are the trips the vocabulary is drawn from — a class in Beihai, a cultural afternoon at the school, a few days away with the whole class.

Students wearing Ming-dynasty hanfu on a study trip
Ming hanfu
A teacher introducing traditional Chinese headdress
Traditional headdress
A shell-carving workshop in Beihai
Beihai shell carving
Students on a visit to a tailor's workshop
Tailor's workshop