About Us

SayMandarin is a service where you can check your Chinese pronunciation and practice Mandarin tones with feedback from an AI system.

The product was created by one person, Tony, a graduate of Beijing Language and Culture University who has been teaching Chinese since 2015.

When I decided to get back into shape after a break from using Chinese, I decided to start with pronunciation and spent a long time looking for a tool that worked for me. I had a simple goal: to quickly understand my actual level without signing up and get a set of ready-made texts and exercises to practice with.

I tried many different websites, apps, and extensions. They all did the same thing: gave me a score and suggested I repeat the exercise. Not a single website told me exactly what to change in my pronunciation.

My goal was to get detailed feedback specific to my situation, rather than just see my score.

After getting frustrated with websites and apps, I started researching pronunciation on my own and combining the articles I found with my own experience. After six months of this work, I had collected so much material that I decided to build my own product.

First, I asked my students to test my practice tools and articles. They liked them. They told me they benefited from my tools. After that, I decided to make SayMandarin publicly available.

Almost all the articles on the site are written by hand. This takes a lot of time, so I would be very grateful if you could take a minute to send me your feedback and any requests for the product and the articles on the site. Thank you!