Practise speaking Mandarin Chinese out loud
Free Mandarin Chinese conversation practice with an AI partner that responds to what you actually say. No subscription, no paywall, and no payment details.
Ordering at a café, start to finish
A real conversation in the app: order a coffee, ask for something to eat, request the bill. The objectives tick off as you say them.
Turn sound on to hear it.
The bit that trips people up: tones only exist out loud
You cannot learn tones by reading. They are a property of speech, and the same syllable in the wrong tone is a different word. This is the single strongest argument for speaking practice in any language: in Mandarin, silent study genuinely cannot teach you the thing that matters most.
Conversations you can practise in Mandarin Chinese
- Ordering food and asking for it less spicy
- Taking a taxi and explaining where you are going
- Bargaining at a market
- Introducing yourself and where you are from
- Asking for the bill and paying by phone
Not on the list? Describe the situation and ConvoLive builds it.
Situations
Three phrases worth being able to say
Every learner needs these before they need anything clever.
- 请再说一遍
- Please say that again
- 这个怎么说？
- How do you say this?
- 我的中文不太好
- My Chinese isn't very good
Mandarin Chinese questions people ask
- Can I learn Mandarin tones from an app?
- You can learn them from anything that lets you hear a model and produce it back often enough. What does not work is reading about tones. ConvoLive is built around saying things out loud, which is the only mode where tones exist.
- Do I need to learn characters first?
- No. Speaking and reading are separable in Mandarin more than in most languages, and pinyin plus translations let you hold conversations while characters come later.
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