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Practise Mandarin Chinese every day with an AI tutor

Tones and characters make Mandarin feel daunting, and daily practice is what takes the edge off. Lingua works on your tones by voice, adds characters a few at a time and corrects you as you go.

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Sample result

A sample practice conversation (beginner level)

The request
Let’s practise talking about shopping.

Conversation

  1. Lingua你昨天做了什么？Nǐ zuótiān zuò le shénme? What did you do yesterday?
  2. You我昨天去商店买了一个书。
  3. Lingua很好！不过要说“一本书”。Yì běn shū: the measure word for books is 本 (běn), not 个.
  4. You我昨天去商店买了一本书。
  5. Lingua对了！你买了什么书？Duì le! That’s right. What book did you buy?

Added to your review deck

  • Measure words: 本 (books), 个 (general), 杯 (cups)
  • Characters: 商店 (shop), 书 (book)

What Lingua does

  • Runs short daily conversations in Mandarin Chinese at your level, by text or by voice in the ProhostAI app.
  • Remembers the words and mistakes you keep repeating and brings them back with spaced repetition.
  • Practises tones and pinyin by voice, with feedback on the tone pairs that trip you up.
  • Builds characters with spaced repetition, in simplified or traditional script, and drills measure words.

What Lingua won’t do

  • Does not do graded homework, assessed translations or online tests for you.
  • Is not an official exam or a certificate. It prepares you; the exam body awards the result.
  • Is not an interpreter for legal, medical or other high-stakes conversations.

How it works

  1. Set your level and goal

    A trip, a move, family, an exam: tell Lingua why you are learning and roughly where you are.

  2. Practise a little every day

    Ten-minute conversations by text or voice, with corrections as you go.

  3. Review what keeps slipping

    Lingua brings back the words and mistakes you repeat until they stick.

Questions

Simplified or traditional characters?

Either. Tell Lingua whether you are learning for mainland China or Singapore (simplified) or for Taiwan or Hong Kong (traditional).

Can it help with the HSK?

Yes. It practises vocabulary and grammar at your target HSK level and tracks the characters you keep forgetting. It cannot predict an official result.

Can I practise speaking out loud?

Yes. Talk to Lingua by voice in the ProhostAI app, or type if you would rather.

Put Lingua to work

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