Ting-Li app for iPhone and iPad

A brand new method to practise Chinese language listening skills, purposely developed by language learners not satisfied with other products present in the marketplace. A must for those who really want to learn how to recognise tones and sounds, targeted to both foreigner students and young Chinese alike, of all levels.

You will hear a real human voice speaking out a sequence of sounds and the application will ensure that your brain focuses on pure listening only, avoiding the common trap of drawing the answers from previously learnt words.

In most commonly found applications , if you heard the sequence "nī háo", you would probably guess that the meaning is "hello", which is wrong! This is because our brain, when hearing familiar words, ignores the tone components and automatically substitutes them with the correct one, "nǐ hǎo". Therefore, you think you are practise listening skills, while, in reality, you are simply reviewing your knowledge.

Using this application will solve this problem, because the words that you will hear - while exist individually - when put together do not have a full meaning, and therefore there is no knowledge from which to cheat the answer! You will be forced to listen to each of the sounds very carefully before providing the correct answer.

Tingli 1.0 version provides the new features listed below.

1. You can click four Listen buttons to test your listening skills;
2. You can click Show button to check if you’ve got it;
3. You can click any of four Listen buttons longer than 2 seconds to get another random new words;
4. You can type Pinyin with tone number to listen what you’ve typed, etc.