Listening trainer: understand Chinese
Ten short tasks per round: recognise a word, hear the gap in a sentence, find the stressed syllable, tell two similar sounds apart, follow a dialogue. You decide when something plays — and whether slowly or at normal speed.
Listening closely helps you speak.
Listening trainer
Read along shows the text with every task straight away. Good for tuning in; answers then do not count, because it is no longer a listening test.
Or practise one thing
Why in small steps
Listening to a new language means recognising sounds first, then where words begin and end, then the meaning. The trainer practises these steps one by one — and together in the mixed round. Feedback comes at once, so your ear learns what made the difference.
Slow is not a step back
At the start, a slower speed demonstrably helps understanding. Feel free to hear a task twice, slowly first and then at normal speed: the goal is normal speed, but the way there can be slow.
Why different voices
If you hear words from many speakers, you later recognise them from strangers too. So the trainer switches between the voices your browser has for the language. They are speech-output voices, not recordings, and nothing plays unless you press a button.
Without sound or with hearing loss
Every task has a “Show text” button, and the “Read along” switch always shows the text. Everything works from the keyboard: Tab to the buttons, digits for the answers, Enter to go on.
Example sentences
1 商店十点开门。The shop opens at ten.
1 我家有四口人。There are four people in my family.
1 电影院在几楼？Which floor is the cinema on?
2 我们去跳舞吧！Let's go dancing!
2 课间休息十分钟。There’s a ten-minute break between lessons.
2 他的房间总是很整齐。His room is always tidy.
3 请把大衣挂在这儿。Please hang your coat here.
3 别把头伸出车窗外。Do not stick your head out of the car window.
3 海边吹着微风，很舒服。A gentle breeze is blowing by the sea, and it is very pleasant.
4 经常熬夜会打乱生物钟。Staying up late a lot upsets your body clock.
4 我们的登机口改了，得赶快过去。Our gate has changed; we’ll have to hurry over.
4 这些塑料瓶子可以回收利用。These plastic bottles can be recycled.
5 天文台每天晚上都观测星空。The observatory observes the night sky every evening.
5 环卫工人每天早上五点就开始扫街。The street cleaners start sweeping at five every morning.
5 在国外生活要入乡随俗，尊重当地的习惯。When you live abroad, you should do as the locals do and respect their customs.