CiaoSpeak App

What it does

Most Mandarin apps teach mainland-standard Chinese with a Taiwan-flavored afterthought. CiaoSpeak is built the other way around: Traditional characters, zhuyin, and Taiwan-standard vocabulary and accent from lesson one. A proactive AI teacher drives every conversation instead of leaving you staring at a blank chat box, and Hunches — a guess-first learning mechanic grounded in real memory research (the pretesting effect, hypercorrection) — make new words stick. Join the waitlist.

Learn Chinese the way Taiwan speaks it: Traditional characters, Zhuyin, Taiwan-accent audio, and real questions you answer out loud. Every lesson is free.

You understand the question. Now learn to answer it. Structured lessons teach you Chinese step by step, and in Speak the breakfast-shop auntie, a taxi driver or a new coworker asks you a question you answer out loud. Every lesson is free. Always. New to TOCFL? Start with our TOCFL guide , check any word in the TOCFL level checker , or browse the Taiwan Chinese word list . Most apps train you to recognize Chinese. Speak trains the moment that makes people freeze: someone asks you something, and you have to answer. A character in a real Taiwan scene asks you one question out loud: the breakfast-shop auntie, a night-market stall owner, a taxi driver, the convenience-store clerk, a new coworker…from ciaospeak.app

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