Learn Mandarin Chinese by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Mandarin Chinese tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

Tones are why Chinese feels impossible from a textbook: you cannot hear your own mistakes. A tutor that answers out loud tells you straight away when what you said was a different word.

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A Mandarin Chinese conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Mandarin Chinese

Order in a restaurant and answer the questions the server asks back.
Give a taxi driver directions and understand the reply.
Introduce yourself and your work in a way that leads somewhere.

Choose your Mandarin Chinese

Pick the accent or script you want. Your choice changes the tutor’s voice and the words it teaches, and you can switch whenever you like.

SimplifiedTraditional

How learning Mandarin Chinese with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Mandarin Chinese — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Mandarin Chinese questions

Both. Choose Simplified or Traditional and your flashcards use that script, with the tutor’s accent following your choice.

Yes. Tone mistakes that turn one word into another get corrected first, because those are the ones that actually stop you being understood.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Mandarin Chinese as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseDutchRussianJapaneseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkishVietnamese

Start speaking Mandarin Chinese today

Download Verbsy and have your first Mandarin Chinese conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

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