The Sound System: all 10 lessons free
No sign-up needed, but nothing is saved. Sign up free and your progress and mistake book are kept — carry on from any phone or computer.
This practice works best alongside a lesson: to get your sounds right, book one and your teacher listens and corrects you one-on-one.
The Test: Everything You Can Hear
通关测验
Nine lessons of sounds, words and sentences, in one sitting. Pass it and the sound system is behind you.
Sign up free — just an email. Your wrong answers go into your mistake book, and you can carry on on another device.
Sign up / sign inThe test — twenty questions
Paper A of 5Twenty questions in one sitting: tones, the difficult sounds, the spelling rules, the words, and four sentences you have met. Eighteen right to pass. You are not expected to remember whole sentences — listen, look, and choose.
- 1
咖啡
coffee
- 2
苹果
apple
- 3
老师
teacher
- 4
银行
bank
- 5
再见
goodbye
- 6
沙发
sofa
- 7
Which one did you hear?
- 8
Which one did you hear?
- 9
Which one did you hear?
- 10
Which one did you hear?
- 11
鱼
fish
- 12
五
five
- 13
一
one
- 14
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 15
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 16
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 17
Someone asks you this. What do you say back?
- 18
What is being asked?
- 19
She asks 这是什么？ — answer from the picture.
- 20
Look at the flag, listen, then answer.
Part five — say who you are随堂小练
No pressure — just making it stick.
Your turn — say it
你好，我叫马可。
Hello, my name is …
Your turn — say it
很高兴认识你。
Nice to meet you.
Before you go课后回顾
- Which part felt shakiest — the tones, the difficult consonants, the nasals, or the sentences? Say it out loud to yourself now, while you still remember.
- Record your whole introduction on your phone: 你好，我叫……。我是……人。很高兴认识你。 Send it to me before our next class.
- The sound system does not need any more lessons. It needs use. Everything from here on will be practice disguised as conversation.