Practice
Dialogues
A dialogue is built around you: it draws on the words in your dictionary and on your level. So the same request produces different texts for two people — and that is why dialogues do not work while your dictionary is empty: there is nothing to build from.
What it draws on
- Your dictionary — familiar words become the backbone of the dialogue.
- Your level — it bounds how complex the constructions get.
- A topic, if you set one — a situation or a collection of words.
The point is to keep a dialogue comprehensible without turning it into a retelling of what you already know: familiar words provide footing, and the unfamiliar ones around them are picked up from context.
What setting a topic does
Without a topic, Tomyo picks one from your dictionary. A topic you set — a situation or a collection you assembled — narrows the vocabulary to what you need, which is handy when preparing for a specific trip or conversation.
How much you can generate
Plus is not subject to the Basic daily generation allowance. On Basic, dialogues and generated texts share a daily limit: generating a text may use the allowance you would otherwise use for a dialogue.
Reading and audio
Open a saved dialogue in Practice → Dialogues. Tapping a Chinese word opens its pronunciation and meaning. Show pinyin and sentence translations when needed; audio lets you listen to the conversation and individual lines.
Saved dialogues
The library shows saved dialogues. Filter by collection to find material based on the words you need. Select several cards to remove unwanted dialogues from the list.