Jan 1, 2009
EK Lam

A Cool Online Chinese Reader: Learn Chinese, Listen to This!

Do you like to learn how to speak pure Chinese? Now, you can learn it via an online Chinese reader. The reader can read a single word or a few sentences from any Chinese text. Users can also select either a male or female voice to be the Chinese pronunciation online-teacher.

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“Learn Chinese, Listen to This!” is a free website developed by Anhui USTC iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. The website can convert any written Chinese text into fluent speech in the authentic Chinese language. All you need to do is to key in any Chinese text into the box, select the narrator and click the ‘Play’ button. After that, the text will be read sentence by sentence with the pronunciation symbol or ‘pinyin’ of each Chinese character indicated. If you want to hear a particular sentence only, click any word in the sentence and the system will read it. Likewise for a word; just double click on the word and the system will read the particular word only. Users can also choose to read the Chinese in full text, character by character or word by word just by clicking on the relevant tabs on the website. In addition, you also can save the pronunciation in MP3 format.

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There are more features in the ‘Advanced Mode Reading Setting’, such as:

  1. Control the reading speed;
  2. Select the narrator for a particular word/sentence;
  3. Set Chinese pinyin (tones);
  4. Mute a selected character/word/sentence and etc.


  • orna

    how can i download this program?

  • Jenny Chu

    I fully agree. I especially found the need to learn Chinese as I was born in China, but because of the one child policy, we left at a very young age. I know the basics (in order to communicate with my parents, but I was taught English growing up at school. So technically, my first language is English.
    I went to visit family in 2005, but I was taken for a ride. The taxi drivers could hear that I wasn't from around there, so they'd always take the longer routes to where I needed to go just so I could pay them more. And as for my bargaining skills, it was pretty much useless as the store owners at the night market could also tell. From that point, I've taken a bigger interest in improving my Chinese (I've tried audio tapes but they don't really work so well for me). But everyone learns at their own pace and by their own means.
    I plan to visit my family there again very soon, so I hope my Chinese would have improved by then.

    Thanks for the post.

    Regards
    J

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