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Speak Chinese: Learn Mandarin, with AI speaking practice
By Mei-Lin Chua
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- Roleplay conversations for travel, work and everyday situations
- Pronunciation feedback with tone accuracy and fluency scores
- Mock HSK tests across levels 1 to 6, with answers explained
- Stroke-order animations and radical breakdowns for characters
- Flashcards built from words you save during lessons
- Tap any word in a reading for pinyin, translation and grammar tips
Who this Mandarin course is for
If you are starting Mandarin from nothing, or you have a date to sit an HSK exam, this app is aimed at you. The listing covers both ends: a guided path for complete beginners, and mock tests for students working through HSK 1 to 6.
The developer names three groups: expats and travellers who need practical conversation quickly, students preparing for HSK exams, and busy people who want hands-free audio practice. The listing presents the app as a replacement for running a dictionary app, a flashcard app and a vocabulary app side by side.
The app covers listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each skill has its own tools, described in the sections below.
Practising speaking with an AI tutor
Interactive roleplay puts you in simulated conversations. The listing names everyday exchanges, travel scenarios and workplace dialogue as the situations covered, so the practice is aimed at talking through a real errand rather than reciting isolated phrases.
When you speak, the AI analyses your speech and tracks tone accuracy. The listing says it gives real-time fluency scores as you go. Tones are the part most learners find hardest to hear in their own voice, so a tone-specific measure is the main point of this feature.
The scores are the developer's description of the feature. Nothing here says how accurate they are.
Mock HSK tests and reviewing your answers
The exam simulation gives you mock tests built around the official HSK levels. You work through them the way you would in an exam setting, which suits anyone who wants to measure readiness before booking a sitting.
After a test, the AI review breaks down each question. The listing says the breakdowns explain the grammar rule behind each answer, so you see why a result came out as it did, not only whether it was right.
Because the review sits next to the test, a missed question can be followed up in the same session rather than in a separate textbook.
Learning characters with pictures and stroke order
For characters that are hard to remember, the app uses illustrations and visual cues. The listing describes structural associations: links between a character's shape and a picture or idea that helps you recall it.
Radical breakdowns show the components that make up each character. Alongside them, real-time stroke-order animations show the sequence in which the strokes are written, which is the practical side of learning to write by hand.
The two features are meant to be used together. The picture helps you remember the character, and the radical and stroke view helps you write it.
Vocabulary, flashcards and reading
Words you meet in lessons can be saved to a personal word bank with one action. The flashcards that come from that bank use a spaced-repetition algorithm, which the listing says is tuned to help vocabulary stay in memory over the long term.
A graded reading section holds books, audiobooks and video articles. Tapping any word opens its pinyin, English translation, stroke order and core grammar tips in place, so you do not leave the text to look it up.
Taken together, the saved words feed the flashcards and the reading gives a place to meet them again in context. The listing presents this as the reason to keep vocabulary in one app rather than three.
What's new
- Sync your bookmarked sentences.
- Support Widget.
About this APK
The build we hold is Speak Chinese: Learn Mandarin 2.9.5 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.
- Version
- 2.9.5
- 209050
- Requires Android
- 7.0+
- Size
- 58 MB
- Package ID
- com.meophe.catchinese
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 25 declared · 4 sensitive
- Camera
- Microphone
- Modify files on your device
- Read files on your device
- Signed by
- CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
- Certificate SHA-256
- 90b56192e156ec45ee526fb44adbe44e7a04245cc4075bce6902f626fa09b8cf
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