● ToneTutor

Practise Mandarin tones in real conversation, not just drills

Drilling isolated tone pairs is the easy part. Keeping your tones right while you're actually talking — thinking about words, grammar and meaning all at once — is where learners plateau and start to sound "off."

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ToneTutor closes that gap: instead of flashcards, you hold a real conversation and every reply is checked for tones and grammar in context, with the correct pinyin and native audio so you can hear and fix it. Throw deliberately wrong tones at it and watch it catch them. That in-context feedback is what actually moves your pronunciation.

How it works

Pick a scenario and your level, then just talk — speak or type in Mandarin and have a real back-and-forth with "Lin Wei", your AI native speaker, with pinyin, translation and audio on every line. Each reply is graded for tones and grammar, and you finish with a summary (or a score card) of exactly what to drill next. Free for your first 3 sessions, no signup.

Honest note: the test grades the transcript of what you say (speech-to-text + Gemini), so it's a spoken-level estimate from your grammar, vocabulary and fluency — not a raw pitch-contour tone analyzer. A fast, honest read on where you stand.
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