TingWo: Learn Mandarin Chinese

Codoha Ltd.

About this app

Learn Chinese from the life you already live. TingWo turns any Mandarin text you paste, photograph, or share into a personal course: the vocabulary you actually need, natural example sentences, native quality audio, and smart flashcards that make every word stick.

Your content is the course
Paste a chat message, snap a photo of a menu, share an article from any app, or drop in a YouTube link. TingWo reads it, finds the Chinese words that are genuinely new to you, and builds rich study cards with meanings, natural example sentences, and native quality audio. Nothing feels random, because every word came from something you wanted to understand.

New to Chinese? Start here
A guided beginner course teaches your first real conversations one short lesson at a time: listen first, then speak, with a friendly teacher who cheers you on from your very first word.

A Chinese dictionary that keeps up with you
Look up words by typing, handwriting, speaking, or pointing your camera at them. The dictionary works offline, opens in one tap from your home screen, and every word you meet anywhere in the app is one tap from a full definition and one more from your study deck.

Speak Mandarin from day one
- Speaking drill: record yourself, get speech recognition feedback, compare with a native voice.
- How to say?: turn everyday sentences into Chinese and get instant feedback.
- Say It Better: upgrade a plain sentence step by step until it sounds native.
- Roleplay: chat your way through real scenarios with a patient partner.

Then read, listen, and write
- Daily news rewritten to your level and generated dialogues on any topic.
- A hands-free listening flow for practice on the go.
- Stroke by stroke Chinese character writing and a bopomofo (zhuyin) trainer.
- Chengyu stories and a private journal with gentle feedback.

Remembers, so you do not have to
Reviews are scheduled with FSRS, a modern spaced repetition algorithm, so words return right before you would forget them. Daily caps keep sessions light, streaks and weekly XP keep you coming back, and trouble words get simpler examples automatically.

Play your way through a story
Ghost Month is a Taiwan folk tale adventure played entirely in Chinese: explore, talk to characters, and solve puzzles matched to your level.

Made for how Chinese is really used
Simplified and traditional characters are both supported. Pinyin or zhuyin, tone marks, numbers, or tone colors. Old HSK 1 to 6, the new HSK levels, and TOCFL bands for Taiwan Mandarin. Mainland or Taiwan accent audio. The app itself speaks seven languages.

Start in one tap
No signup needed: open the app and learn immediately as a guest. Sign in with Google whenever you want and your progress carries over.

TingWo means "listen to me". You speak, and the app listens.

Questions or feedback? https://tingwo.app/support

What’s new

New: VLOG Practice. Tell TingWo what your vlog is about and get a script written at your Chinese level. Then hit record and read it straight from the auto-scrolling teleprompter. Your video never leaves your phone.

Also new:
- Paste a YouTube link and turn the video's Chinese into study cards
- Ask "How do I say...?" and get instant answers matched to your level
- More beginner lessons, including ordering at a night market

Plus: ready for Android 16.