kuai

An app for learning Mandarin Chinese pronunciation


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Kuai

A quick way to learn Mandarin Chinese pronunciations

Get it on Google Play

The first and most important step in learning a language is to learn the pronunciation. This tool provides a simple and fast UI to test yourself, improve, and learn Chinese’s pinyin spelling system, syllable pronunciations, and tones. The app works as follows:

If this is your first time with the character system, the following few videos are infinitely valuable in teaching the basics. After that, you’re ready to start using the app.

Credits

This app makes use of the wonderful Tone Perfect Dataset:

Catherine Ryu, Mandarin Tone Perception & Production Team,
and Michigan State University Libraries Digital Collections Team (2017). Tone Perfect (https://tone.lib.msu.edu/).

Installation

Install this app on Google Play. Downloads will also be released for Windows, Mac, and Linux soon.

Suggestions

Feel free to open an issue on the GitHub page with any problems or suggestions.