All 37 symbols, in five lessons
The symbols, the tones and the sounds, one lesson at a time. After that the All Symbols drill and Review pull out the ones you are still unsure of.
You always know what you are practising.
Lessons run in order, and any open lesson can be taken on its own. What counts as cleared is stated before you begin, not after.
1,517 lessons of characters and words
Taken from Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionary and graded 1–7 against the Taiwan Benchmarks for the Chinese Language (TBCL), ten questions a lesson, most common first.
Dictation mode
The prompt stays hidden and only the audio plays. Listen, then type the full zhuyin and its tone. Every lesson and the timed test.
The keys sit where they do on a Taiwan-standard zhuyin keyboard, so the positions carry over to a real one. A hardware keyboard works too.
Your weak spots, in numbers.
Accuracy for each of the 37 bopomofo symbols, side by side. The pairs you confuse, the syllables you keep missing, how much you have practised and where it is heading are all in the statistics.
The numbers are accuracy. Tap to hear a symbol, hold for its history.
What you get free, and what Pro adds.
What's free
No time limit and no daily cap.
- Every lesson for all 37 bopomofo symbols
- The All Symbols drill
- The one-minute timed test
- TBCL levels 1–2 of the character and word courses, 101 lessons
- Part of the statistics
BopoTaco Pro
A one-time purchase, not a subscription.
- TBCL levels 3–7: 1,416 more character and word lessons
- Dictation mode
- Three- and five-minute timed tests
- The full statistics
Start at your own pace.
On the App Store now, for iPhone and iPad.