的, 得 and 地
他跑的很快。
他跑得很快。
All three are pronounced de: 的 links a modifier to a noun, 得 introduces how an action is done, 地 turns a word into an adverb.
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Mandarin has little conjugation to get wrong and a lot of word order and measure words to get wrong instead. FluenText corrects the Chinese you text in real conversations, and every word you tap comes back with its pinyin, tone and meaning in context.
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你昨天去哪儿了？
我去书店买一个书。
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Measure Word
Original:
我去书店买一个书。
Suggested:
我去书店买一本书。
Books take the measure word 本 (běn), not the general-purpose 个 (gè).
Chinese mistakes FluenText catches
The errors that survive years of study, because nobody in a real conversation stops to correct them.
Time before the verb
我吃饭七点。
我七点吃饭。
Chinese puts when something happens before the verb, not after it.
Where 了 goes
我了买三本书。
我买了三本书。
了 after the verb marks a completed action; at the end of a sentence it marks a change of situation.
Place before the verb
我吃饭在家。
我在家吃饭。
Where something happens comes before the verb, like time. English puts both at the end; Chinese does not.
How Chinese practice works
No lessons, no streak of flashcards. Just the conversations you would be having anyway.
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Real conversationsText a friend — or an AI partner
Set a chat's language to Chinese and message a friend who speaks it. No one to practice with? Open a chat with an AI conversation partner that replies at your level.
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Instant correctionEvery message gets reviewed
Your Chinese is checked as you send it. Mistakes come back highlighted right against your own sentence, tagged by category, with a clear explanation.
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Ask follow-upsType @coach when you are stuck
Ask why a correction happened, how to say something more politely, or what a phrase means. The coach reads the thread and answers inline.
Pinyin on any character you tap
Tap a word in a Chinese message to see its pinyin with tone marks, its meaning in that sentence and an example — useful long before you can read every character on sight.
Chinese practice questions
You can write either. FluenText corrects the Chinese you send rather than converting it, and word lookups show pinyin and meaning for what is actually in the message.
FluenText is a text app, so it does not grade pronunciation. What it does give you is pinyin with tone marks on every word you tap, which is where most tone confusion starts.
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