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Listening is the preliminary skill to having conversations with people. In the Chinese language, tones are a barrier every non-native speaker must overcome to communicate successfully. What you can do to improve listening competency is to listen more! The resources below are websites that can help you understand the Chinese phonetic system (Pinyin) and access more exercises to raise your listening skills.
Coffee Break Chinese Podcast is designed for beginner and intermediate Chinese learners. Each episode is hosted by Mark, the founder of Coffee Break Languages, and Crystal, a native Chinese speaker. In each episode, Crystal answers Mark’s questions about Chinese and corrects his pronunciation. The episodes are 15-20 minutes long, which is appropriate for daily listening practice.
FluentU is a website and app focused on providing authentic, immersive video content. You can choose from hundreds of engaging videos on various topics such as culture, politics, science, tech, movies and music. All the videos have expert-vetted, interactive subtitles. When you hover or click on any word, you can see its definition, pronunciation, example sentences and clips from other videos where the word is used.
One of the most recommended multilingual websites is BBC Languages. From BBC Languages Chinese, there is an introduction to Chinese tones and mini-games involving these tones, making the website very suitable for beginners. After grasping Chinese pronunciation, you can start to explore other areas of the language.
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