Cantone

Features Cantone

Cantone helps you to put the tones in tonal languages.Cantone helps learners learn to perceive or speak tones in Cantonese or Mandarin - and reinforces this knowledge with vocabulary, tone sandhi, and other activities.We offer support for * traditional and simplified characters.* multiple transcription systems (Jyutping and Yale for Cantonese; Pinyin and bopomofo for Mandarin)* English, German, Mandarin, and Cantonese user interfaces.* light mode and dark modeYou can learn tones and words incrementally and move on to more advanced topics when ready - or you can simply practice what you already know with tasks and ther fun activities.Perception activities tone your abilities to distinguish tones:* Hear sounds and guess the tones.* Match sounds to corresponding tone or word labels.Production activities help you to speak:* Personalize the system to you and your voice.* Listen to exemplars adjusted for your vocal range.* Listen to and match points in a tonal contour.* Follow tone contours at a slower speed with pitch feedback.* Plot attempts against canonical tone contours.Vocabulary activities reinforce your knowledge through words.* Learn words that differ in tone only (e.g.
買 vs.
賣).* Match words by tone, definition, character, and pronunciation.Tone Sandhi activities teach you about tone changes.* Learn tone change rules.* Listen to characters and predict the tones when the characters are put together.Other activities help hone your abilities:* Follow along with hilarious single syllable poems.* Listen to and internalize the "tone melody"* Learn common phrases.Enjoy!P.S.
If you encounter bugs, please let me know at [email protected], and Ill try to get back to you (and the bug) as quickly as possible.Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cantone.cantoneiOS/iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cantone/id1602297692