Tone-Switch
Hear how a different tone changes a word. Play at your own pace.
Play Tone-Switch
Same syllable, different tones, different meanings. Alternate between choosing the word and identifying its tone. One question per pair, with no timer.
How to play Tone-Switch
- Listen to Sound A. Sound B is the other word; play it if you want to compare.
- Answer one question. Question 1 asks which word you heard; question 2 asks which tone you heard. They alternate on each new pair.
- Select your guess, then press Next pair. Next becomes available after you answer. You can select an answer at any time, including during playback.
- Check the answer. Hear both again lets you compare the words as often as you like before continuing.
Start with Beginner for unlimited listening in the first set. A wrong answer costs one heart. The run ends after 4 sets of six pairs, or when your three hearts run out.
- 1st ↔ 4th
- 2nd ↔ 4th
- 1st ↔ 3rd
- 1st ↔ 2nd
- 3rd ↔ 4th
- 2nd ↔ 3rd
Levels and scoring
Right answers earn points and build a combo up to ×5. Each new set allows fewer replays, as shown above the sounds. Show the answer labels matches the pinyin to the sounds; that pair then earns no points and costs no hearts. Afterwards you can retry missed pairs once, unscored.
Both words are
1. Which word did you hear in Sound A?
2. Which tone did you hear in Sound A?
Quest complete
0 points
Words to revisit
Nothing to revisit: you cleared every contrast without answer labels.
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