Another great Pinyin learning app has been discovered. This time it’s in the form of the Pinyin chart most Chinese students have grown to hate love. The app Pinyin Chart actually makes this basic method of learning tones and pronunciation fun. How so? It lets you scroll around with your finger and then when you tap in a cell you can listen to each of the four tones associated with that initial/final combination.

Pinyin Chart is just one of our favorite Chinese learning apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

Here are a couple of our other picks of the best Chinese learning apps for iPhone and iPad:

Pinyin Converter – Convert Chinese Characters into Pinyin on iPhone and iPad

Pinyin Converter brings iPhone and iPad users the ability to transliterate Chinese characters into their pinyin equivalent. We've all seen this done in pinyin literature and now Pinyin Converter enables you to perform this cool trick yourself. Here's how it works. Simply cut and paste Chinese characters from any source like a ...

Pleco: The Best Chinese Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad

Pleco is the best translation app for learning Chinese on the iPhone and iPad. One of the app's biggest strengths is the ability to download add-ons. These come in the form of extra dictionaries, hand-writing aids, and document translators. The coolest add-on is an optical character recognizer that uses the ...