Chiny

• Learn path Ordered beginner lessons from tones and pinyin to first conversations.
• Tone school Four tones, sandhi basics, and a browser tone trainer.
• Pinyin booth Initials, finals, spelling rules, and a syllable builder.
• Word decks Beginner vocabulary with pinyin, glosses, and SRS-lite review.
• Sentence patterns Core grammar frames you can reuse in real sentences.
• Hanzi primers High-frequency characters with pinyin, meaning, and memory tips.
• Radical studio The character pieces that make new hanzi easier to remember.
• Contrast pairs Tone and sound pairs that look similar until you choose the meaning.
• Practice room Mixed drills for tones, cloze, hanzi, and vocab.
• Graded reading Short dialogues with a pinyin toggle and saveable lines.
• Study plan Build a 7- or 14-day checklist you can print from this browser.
• Phrase packs Survival phrases for greetings, food, travel, weather, invitations, and study.

• 01 How Mandarin works A clear map of sounds, tones, characters, and word order so beginners know what to learn first. Open
• 02 The four tones (+ neutral) Hear and produce the four contour tones and the light neutral tone with reliable beginner cues. Open
• 03 Tone sandhi essentials Learn the beginner-critical tone changes for 不, 一, and two third tones in a row. Open
• 04 Pinyin initials Master Mandarin consonant starts, including sounds English does not have. Open
• 05 Pinyin finals Learn simple and compound finals so you can build real syllables. Open
• 06 Pinyin spelling rules Tone marks, ü spelling, y/w forms, and common beginner spelling traps. Open

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