Chinese Pronunciation Tutor Lite

This is a lite version of Chinese Pronunciation Tutor.

Chinese Pronunciation Tutor help you learn and practice Chinese Pinyin (中文拼音), It's powered by state-of-the-art speech analysis technology.

Features:

1.Play to listen the pronunciation of Pinyin

2.Record to practice Pinyin, Tutor automatically show you Pinyin's score and its tone pronounced to help you correct your pronunciation.

3. General search for Chinese to Pinyin.

4. Exercise of word's Pinyin and its tone.

Chinese Pinyin 中文拼音:

The pronunciation of Chinese characters has been romanized into a phonetic system called Pinyin.

A Pinyin is composed of two components: 1. the syllable 音节 2. the tone 声调

Syllable 音节:

A syllable is composed of two components: 1. the Initial 声母 2. the Final 韵母

1. Initial 声母 : b p m f d t n l g k h j q x z c s zh ch sh r y w
2. Final 韵母 : a o e i u ü ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe er an en in un ün ang eng ing ong

Tone 声调:

There are 5 pronunciation tones in the Chinese language.

1. the First Tone 第一声 is spoken with a high and level pitch.
2. the Second Tone 第二声 is spoken with a rising pitch.
3. the Third Tone 第三声 is spoken with a dipping pitch.
4. the Fourth Tone 第四声 is spoken with a falling pitch.
5. the Fifth Tone 轻声 is spoken with a neutral tone.