白板 · Mandarin practice on iOS
Stop memorising Chinese.
Start speaking it.
Order skewers at a night market. Give a taxi driver directions. BaiBan drops you into real Chinese scenes where you read along, tap any word you don't know, and say the lines out loud. Five minutes a day, and you're actually using the language.
coming soon!How it worksno flashcard grind, just scenes you'd actually live ↓
shén me
Hear the native audio
Building up to
我要做什么？
What should I do?
Nice tones!
shén ✓ me ✓
Sound familiar?
You've put in the hours. So why can't you hold a conversation?
“Day 300 streak. Still can't order noodles.”
Flashcards build streaks, not sentences. Recognising a word is not the same as using one.
“I learned 闻 last week… what does it mean again?”
Words memorised in isolation have nothing to hold on to. No scene, no stick.
“Native shows are too hard. Textbooks are too fake.”
There's nothing comfortable in between, so most learners just stop reading.
The problem isn't effort. It's that most apps teach words in isolation, so you never get to use them in a sentence that matters. BaiBan flips that: every word arrives inside a scene, and every scene ends with you speaking.
How it works
Read it. Understand it. Say it.
one session ≈ 5 minutes
小明走进夜市，灯笼一排一排地亮起来。
Step into a scene
A moment from everyday life: a night market, a late train, a phone call home. Real Mandarin, written at your level.
闻
wén
to smell
Stuck on a word? Tap it
Pinyin, meaning, and what the word is doing in that exact sentence, right where you're reading. No dictionary detour.
我先买一串吧。
Nice tones! ✓Say a line out loud
You already understand the sentence, so speaking feels doable. The app listens, and shaky words come back for review.
Never leave the page
Unknown words explain themselves.
Select any character and you get the pinyin, the meaning, and a button to hear it, right where you're practising. Save the words worth keeping with one tap.
- No more copy-pasting into a dictionary app.
- Saved words keep the sentence they came from.
Speaking practice
Speak without the blank-page panic.
Most apps drop you into a conversation and hope for the best. BaiBan asks you to say a line you just read and understood, so you build confidence with real sentences instead of guesses. Hear the native pronunciation, try it, try again.
your mic, zero judgement
Review with context
Forget a word? You'll remember the scene.
Every word you tapped comes back for review with the sentence that taught it to you. Instead of a flashcard floating in space, you get “oh right, the night market scene.” That's what makes it stick.
- Words save themselves the moment you tap them.
- Each one keeps the sentence and the scene it came from.
Five minutes a day.
Real Chinese you can use.
Step into a scene, learn the words that stopped you, say one sentence out loud. That's a session. Do it tomorrow too.
coming soon!see you at the night market 🏮