Chinese vocabulary asks a lot at once: a character to recognise, a sound to say, and a tone to get right, all for one word. It’s easy to collect hundreds of words you can read but never say.
FluenSi puts speaking first. Save the Mandarin words you need, with pinyin, tone marks and example sentences filled in for you. Then each review asks you to use a word in a sentence of your own, out loud, and shows you how a native speaker would say it.
Launching soon on iOS & Android. Links go live at release.
Common patterns
我打算明年去中国学习中文。
I plan to go to China next year to study Chinese.
And how speaking your own sentences gets you past it.
Mā, má, mǎ and mà are four different words. FluenSi shows pinyin with tone marks under every Chinese word and translation, reads each word aloud, and makes you say it in full sentences, so the tones come with the word, not as an afterthought.
You don't need to read characters to start: pinyin sits under every word. And because most words are built from familiar characters, like 电 in 电脑, 电话 and 电影, saving real words with examples helps the characters stick in context.
一本书, 一杯咖啡, 一张票: every noun takes its own measure word, and using 个 for everything is a giveaway. Saying your own sentences, and seeing the corrected version, is how the right measure word becomes automatic.
了, 过 and 的 carry tense and meaning that English puts in verb endings. They're hard to learn from word lists, and exactly what sentence feedback corrects, with a short reason for each change.
Speak or type a word or phrase, get an instant translation, then tap to save it as a focus word.
FluenSi instantly analyses it: meaning, part of speech, full conjugation table and real example sentences.
At the right moment, say a fresh sentence with the word, never the same one twice.
After each review, your sentences are graded, with suggested edits to improve them.
Turn on Beginner mode and reviews become a quick multiple-choice quiz while you learn your first words. Once you know about 100, FluenSi suggests switching to speaking your own sentences.
Mandarin. Translations, word analysis and speech recognition all use Mandarin Chinese.
Simplified characters, as used in mainland China and Singapore, with pinyin and tone marks for every word.
Yes. Every review asks you to say a new sentence with a word, out loud, using your phone's Mandarin speech recognition. Being understood is the first test of your tones, and sentence feedback then shows how natural the sentence sounded.
It isn't an HSK course, but it works well alongside one. Save the words from your HSK lists and practise them in spoken sentences until you can use them, not just recognise them.
Try every feature free for 24 hours, then pick the plan that suits you.
Launching soon on iOS & Android. Links go live at release.
