Chinese Dictation Practice That Grades Every Character
Chinese dictation practice is the fastest way to find out what your ears are missing: listen to a sentence, reproduce it, and see exactly which characters you dropped. Chenjin builds dictation into every article in its graded library.
Three modes cover three skills: type the whole sentence, fill in the blanks, or say it out loud and let the scoring do the checking.
Any article becomes a dictation exercise
Open anything in the library, from HSK 1 stories to HSK 7 essays, and switch to dictation mode. The audio plays sentence by sentence at a speed you set, and the difficulty setting controls how many replays you get, from generous to exam-strict.
Because the material is graded, you can practice at a level where you catch most of it, which is where dictation teaches instead of demoralizes.
Speak it back instead of typing
Voice mode plays the sentence and listens while you say it back, then marks each character as heard, missed, or off in tone. It closes the loop typed dictation leaves open: you can recognize a sentence perfectly and still not be able to produce it.
Your misses become your flashcards
Every attempt is graded per character, and the characters you keep missing surface in a weak-characters panel. From there they're one tap from the dictionary and one more from your spaced repetition queue, so dictation feeds the rest of your study instead of just scoring it.
Frequently asked questions
Is dictation on the free plan?
Dictation is part of the Plus plan, which has a 7-day free trial. The free plan covers the reader, the full dictionary, the games hub, and flashcards, so you can settle in before trying it.
What level should I be before starting dictation?
As soon as you can read short HSK 1 or 2 sentences, dictation is useful. Start below your reading level: dictation is harder than reading the same sentence, and the graded library makes dropping down easy.
Does voice mode need special equipment?
Just a microphone and a quiet-ish room. The scoring compares what you said against the sentence's characters and tones and shows the result on the same per-character grid as the typed modes.
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The free plan includes the dictionary, the free graded reader, three library articles a day, games, and flashcards. If it fits the way you learn, the Plus plan unlocks the rest with a 7-day free trial.
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