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title: "HSK 1 Listening Practice: Free Chinese Sentences With Real Voices | Mandarin The Wild"
description: "Free HSK 1 listening practice: hear real HSK 1 sentences from stories read by two native narrators, slow or normal, type what you hear and see every word marked. Keep the words you missed. No sign-up."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-listening-practice/hsk-1"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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Free tool · No sign-up

# HSK 1 listening practice

Real HSK 1 sentences from our stories, read by native narrators. Type what you hear; every word is marked.

Sentence 1 of 10

## How does this listening practice work?

You hear a sentence at HSK 1, type what you heard in characters or pinyin, and see each word marked, with its pinyin and the English. Ten sentences a round, then your score and the words you missed, which you can keep to review.

## Where are the sentences from?

Every sentence is a line from one of our Library stories and articles, read by one of two native narrators, a woman’s voice and a man’s. Open the story to hear the rest of it: you get fluent from material you enjoy, not from a textbook.

## Slow or normal?

Start on Slow (three quarters of the speed, same pitch). When you get most words right, switch to Normal, the speed the narrators read the whole story at.

## Which level should I pick?

Start one level below your reading level: listening is harder than reading. Go up a level when you get 8 of 10 words or more.

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Sentences and voices from our Library readings. Nothing you type is kept.