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For Chinese (here, primarily Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), the key learning points are tones and pinyin, measure words, word order, and aspect expressions. Even if you know Chinese characters, they do not necessarily have the same meaning or pronunciation as in Japanese.
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Practice listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary, plus shadowing and word games.
📖 Reading
Read short articles, messages, and informational texts to grasp the meaning.
📝 Grammar & Vocabulary
Covers word order, measure words, aspect particles, complements, comparative expressions, and more.
🗣️ Shadowing
Speak along while listening to audio to become familiar with Chinese sounds, rhythm, and natural phrasing.
🏰 Word Quest
Learn basic and business vocabulary while progressing through an adventure RPG story.
🧩 Word Match
Review the vocabulary you've learned with a game that matches words to their meanings.
Learn Chinese every day. FRENG's question system
At FRENG, we apply our own learning format—modeled on the listening and reading question structure of the TOEIC® Listening & Reading Test—to Chinese as well. All questions in every language, including English, are independently created by FRENG and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. Grammar and vocabulary questions are created to match the characteristics of each language.
120 minutes every day. All new questions.
It's not just repeating the same questions as yesterday. New mock tests are added every day, and the number of questions you can study keeps piling up.
You can study in just a few minutes a day.
Even if there are 120 minutes' worth of questions each day, you don't have to answer them all.
Just 5 minutes of listening during your commute. Just 10 minutes of reading during lunch break. A few grammar questions on your weak points before bed.
Study today's material at your own pace, as much as you can manage.
We value helping you keep going without overexerting yourself.
Bring the practical question format of the globally used TOEIC® to Chinese learning.
TOEIC® is an English proficiency test used in more than 160 countries around the world. It is particularly strong at measuring practical English skills, with an emphasis on communication in business and the workplace.
Rather than simply testing knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, it uses as its subject matter situations actually encountered in business and daily life, such as workplace conversations, meetings, phone calls, business trips, contacting clients, emails, advertisements, and informational notices.
It also consists of 7 Parts that systematically check practical language ability, including questions where you look at a photo and understand the situation, questions where you choose an appropriate response to a question, questions where you listen to and comprehend conversations and announcements, and questions where you read emails and documents and understand their content.
FRENG has applied this practical and systematic TOEIC® question format to Chinese learning.
Leveraging the wide range of business and everyday topics and question structure used in the TOEIC®, we provide original learning questions that let you work on listening and reading in Chinese. This does not mean the materials replace settings and characters with those of Chinese-speaking regions; rather, it is a structure for learning common topics centered on the United States in Chinese.
In addition, it combines grammar and vocabulary questions that are important for learning Chinese, such as tones, word order, measure words, aspect expressions, and characters and vocabulary.
This allows you to train not only memorizing words and grammar, but also comprehensive language skills for listening to, reading, and accurately understanding Chinese content.
* TOEIC® is an English test. The other-language questions introduced on this page are FRENG's original materials and are not official TOEIC® tests.
* TOEIC® is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). All FRENG questions, including the English version, are originally produced across all 8 languages and are not official TOEIC® tests or official questions. FRENG is not approved by or affiliated with ETS or IIBC.
Question formats by Part
PART 1Photo questions
Listen to a description of a photo and choose the answer
PART 2Response questions
Choose the response to a question or statement
PART 3Conversation questions
Listen to a conversation between multiple people and answer the questions
PART 4Announcement questions
Listen to explanations and announcements and answer the questions
PART 5Short text fill-in-the-blank
Check vocabulary and grammar
PART 6Long passage fill-in-the-blank
Choose the word or phrase that fits the context
PART 7Reading comprehension
Read practical texts and answer the questions
* The above is an introduction to the study format. It is not an official TOEIC® test or official question set.
Characteristics and Key Points of Chinese Learning
What you will learn on this page
The Four Tones
In Listening, you hear the sounds, and in Shadowing, you speak them aloud to get used to tones.
Pinyin and Chinese Characters
While learning vocabulary in Word Quest and Word Match, you get used to how Chinese characters are written.
Basic Word Order and Interrogative Sentences
In Response questions, you listen to the form of the question, and in Short text fill-in-the-blank, you practice choosing the words and phrases that fit the sentence.
Proper Use of Measure Words
In Short text fill-in-the-blank, you practice choosing the measure word that goes with the noun.
Aspects such as 了, 过, and 着
In Short text fill-in-the-blank and Long passage fill-in-the-blank, you practice choosing the word that fits the context.
How to proceed with Chinese language learning
From basics to application, following the order below as a guide will make it easier to organize what you study. You may also start from the middle depending on your learning experience.
Get used to Chinese sounds through shadowing and Part 1 and Part 2 listening
Build your vocabulary with Word Quest and take on the conversations and announcements in Part 3 and Part 4
Check familiar expressions with grammar and reading questions
* This is a suggested study approach and does not indicate level divisions or course names within the FRENG app.
Frequently Asked Questions About Learning Chinese
Listening and Reading are said to be Chinese versions of the English TOEIC®-style mock tests created by FRENG. What are the benefits of learning this way?
TOEIC® is an English test used in more than 160 countries around the world. In Japan and South Korea, many companies use it as a guide for hiring and promotion.
The topics of the questions are all workplace and everyday situations, such as meetings, phone calls, business trips, emails, and notices. For that reason, TOEIC® scores are widely used as a guide to how well someone can understand English in business settings.
The Chinese version of FRENG turns this type of question into Chinese. Because you can listen to and read workplace and everyday situations in the same question format as TOEIC®, it helps you build the ability to understand business situations in Chinese.
Can I learn Chinese for free?
Yes. FRENG is a service that provides Chinese learning content for free.
When starting Chinese, what should I study first?
For Chinese, getting used to the sounds is the most efficient approach. Put reading aside for now and start with shadowing. The short sentences are built around situations you would actually encounter, so practice them as many times as you like until they become your own. You don't need to learn grammar rules first. As you listen a lot and speak out loud, you will naturally start to notice unnatural phrasing.
For vocabulary, Word Quest plays audio for each word, so you can solve them even if you can't read the letters.
Beginners can solve Part 1 (Photo questions) and Part 2 (Response questions) of Listening. Part 3 is Conversation questions and Part 4 is Announcement questions. They are harder than Parts 1 and 2, but they are essential for real conversations with Chinese speakers, so be sure to give them a try.
The important thing is to always review after solving Part 3 and Part 4. When you reopen a question you've already solved, you can choose between "Try again" and "View translation." Pressing "View translation" plays the audio of the same question, with subtitles and translation shown at the same time. Repeating this will help it come naturally to you.
How do you practice Chinese grammar?
Rather than just memorizing rules, find the forms within example sentences and repeatedly check them with short fill-in-the-blank exercises and reading comprehension. It is especially good to focus your practice on "proper use of measure words."
How can I improve my Chinese listening comprehension?
Listen to short audio, check the parts you couldn't catch in text, then practice sound grouping through shadowing. Also pay attention to "the four tones."
How do you master tones?
Check the parts you couldn't catch in Listening by looking at the text, and in Shadowing, imitate the same audio and speak it aloud. As you repeat it, you'll get used to the changes in pitch.
How should I learn measure words?
We recommend learning measure words together with nouns. In Short text fill-in-the-blank, you repeatedly work on questions that ask you to choose the measure word that fits the noun.
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