Chinese learning games

Free, no sign-up, play in your browser. Train your ear and your characters - then make it stick with the full course.

Hear a syllable, name the tone. The fastest way to find out if you can hear the four tones.

Ten characters of increasing difficulty - read each one, pick the meaning, score out of 10.

Hear a two-syllable word and name both tones - how tones really sound in speech.

Match characters to their pinyin as fast as you can, with audio on every match.

Flip the cards and find each character's pinyin - the classic memory game, with audio.

Type the pinyin as fast as you can and get your words-per-minute and accuracy.

Games are the warm-up

The full course turns playing into real progress - spaced-repetition review, a pronunciation check, and a guided path.