Hanzi Shadowing
Shin Vong Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hanzi Shadowing is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Shin Vong. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 14, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 24 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 14
- 2026 · v1.0
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About Hanzi Shadowing
Learn to speak by repeating what people really say. Shadowing turns real videos into speaking practice. Pick a video, listen to one sentence at a time, say it out loud and see how closely your speech matches the original, word by word. PRACTISE YOUR WAY • Sentence-by-sentence playback: replay, go back or move on when you're ready • Pronunciation check: speak into the microphone and see which words you missed • Dictation: listen, then type what you hear • Vocabulary: tap a word for its meaning and hear it read aloud • Grammar points taken from each video • Comprehension check to make sure you understood • AI tutor: chat about the video when something is unclear • Leaderboard: weekly and monthly rankings CHINESE AND ENGLISH VIDEO LIBRARIES Choose the language you want to learn and browse videos by topic: mindset, motivation, stories and daily life. Sort by popular or newest and save your favourites. YOUR OWN VIDEOS Add YouTube videos to your library on hanzilingo.com, then practise them in the app. SAVE WORDS, KEEP YOUR PROGRESS Sign in to save your progress, add words to a notebook shared with hanzilingo.com and join the leaderboard. You can watch and practise every video without an account. The interface is available in English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Russian and Thai.The microphone and speech recognition are used to compare what you say with the sentence in the video.
App privacy
The developer, Shin Vong, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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