Mandarin Chinese flashcards

Simplified Chinese flashcards with pinyin and audio.

Start with 300 ready-made cards and learn pinyin, tones, Simplified characters, and useful phrases – each with clear audio, an example, and daily review. One month free, no cards to make by hand.

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Start with 300 ready-made Chinese vocabulary cards
Pinyin, tones, and audio on every card
One month free, no credit card required

I speak

I'm learning

Try it: tap the card to flip it, tap the speaker to hear the word.

Translation

Preparing your card Finding a useful word for this language pair.

A real card from My Lingua Cards – tap it, hear it, remember it.

What makes Chinese, Chinese

The big differences, taken step by step

Mandarin isn't like European languages – and that's an advantage once you start with the right pieces.

Four tones

Clear audio on every word, so the tone is part of how you remember it.

Characters + pinyin

See the character and its pinyin together, with an image to anchor meaning.

Measure words

The little classifiers shown in natural phrases, so they become second nature.

No conjugation

No verb endings or tenses to drill – grammar is refreshingly simple.

Where it pays off

The world's most spoken first language

Over a billion speakers, and a real edge in the global economy.

Business

Mandarin is a standout skill in trade, tech, and manufacturing.

Travel

Get around China and Taiwan far beyond the tourist script.

Family & heritage

Reconnect with relatives and your roots, word by word.

Film & media

Follow Chinese cinema and shows in the original.

Audio, pinyin, and examples

Simplified Chinese flashcards with audio and examples

Each card connects the character, pinyin, audio, image, and a practical phrase so the word is easier to recognize, hear, and use.

Clear audio for tones

Hear every Mandarin word with clear audio so tone and sound become part of the memory.

Example phrases

See how each word appears in short practical phrases instead of studying isolated translations.

Characters plus pinyin

Learn Simplified characters alongside pinyin, images, and meaning so recognition grows without guesswork.

Spaced repetition

Review at the right moment and keep useful Chinese vocabulary available for travel, work, and conversation.

Getting started

From sign-up to your first card in a couple of minutes

No word lists to hunt for, no cards to make, no review schedule to plan – the app takes care of all that.

Answer a couple of questions

Tell us your language, your level, what you're learning for, and the topics you care about. It takes under a minute.

Done for you 2

You get 300 ready cards

From your answers the app picks words for your level and goals and groups them into sets, one for each topic you chose.

Straight to the words

After setup you land on a card, not on an empty dashboard. Your first session has as many words as you chose per day: 10, 20, or 30.

The next day

Your dashboard has one main button. It opens a session where new words come together with the ones that are due for review, so you never have to decide what to study today.

Behind the calm pace is spaced repetition: each review lands just as the memory starts to fade, so words settle into your active vocabulary.

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Questions, answered

Quick answers before you start.

You'll see characters with pinyin and an image on every card, so you build recognition naturally. Pinyin and audio mean you can speak from day one, even before you read fluently.

They feel hard only without sound. Every word comes with clear audio, and spaced repetition fixes each tone in memory as you hear it again and again.

This track teaches Mandarin with Simplified characters, as used in mainland China.

Yes. You get one month free with your first 300 ready Chinese vocabulary cards. No credit card is required, and nothing is charged unless you choose a plan later.

Unlike Anki, there is nothing to set up: no building decks or importing shared files – ready-made Simplified Chinese cards come with audio, images, and example sentences. And unlike gamified apps, there are no streaks or lives to protect: just a calm daily review queue powered by spaced repetition.

Your first Chinese words are waiting

Start now with 300 ready Chinese vocabulary cards – pinyin, tones, Simplified characters, clear audio, daily review, and reverse practice. One month free, no credit card required.