Chinese Pronunciation Tutor app for iPhone and iPad


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Utilities Education
Developer: EduTech Inc.
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 07 Aug 2010
App size: 25.95 Mb

Chinese Pronunciation Tutor help you learn and practice Chinese Pinyin (中文拼音), Its powered by state-of-the-art speech analysis technology.

Features:

1.Play to listen the pronunciation of Pinyin

2.Record to practice Pinyin, Tutor automatically show you Pinyins score and its tone pronounced to help you correct your pronunciation.

3. Chinese word to Pinyin general search.

4. Exercise of words Pinyin and its tone.

Chinese Pinyin 中文拼音:

The pronunciation of Chinese characters has been romanized into a phonetic system called Pinyin.

A Pinyin is composed of two components: 1. the syllable 音节 2. the tone 声调

Syllable 音节:

A syllable is composed of two components: 1. the Initial 声母 2. the Final 韵母

1. the Initial 声母 : b p m f d t n l g k h j q x z c s zh ch sh r y w
2. the Final 韵母 : a o e i u ü ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe er an en in un ün ang eng ing ong

Tone 声调:

There are 5 pronunciation tones in the Chinese language.

1. the First Tone 第一声 is spoken with a high and level pitch.
2. the Second Tone 第二声 is spoken with a rising pitch.
3. the Third Tone 第三声 is spoken with a dipping pitch.
4. the Fourth Tone 第四声 is spoken with a falling pitch.
5. the Fifth Tone 轻声 is spoken with a neutral tone.