Tomyo on iPad and hints in every phrase

• Tomyo now runs on iPad, with a layout made for the big screen and a side menu.
• It works well in portrait and landscape. Turn the iPad sideways and the daily text, texts and news open next to the main screen.
• On iPad the translator has its own page, together with pinyin and your name in Chinese.

• Tap any word in a phrase: a grammar example, a situation phrase, a dialogue line, a lesson sentence or the word card. Its pinyin, translation and sound appear above it.
• Like the word? Add it to your vocabulary with the + button right in the hint.
• If a word has several readings, the hint shows the one used in this phrase.

Learn more: How the word card works

• Play a phrase and the word being spoken lights up, just like in texts. It is easier to follow the speech and link sound to characters.
• In a lesson the whole sentence is read aloud, with the word you are learning highlighted.

Learn more: All about audio

• If you chose traditional characters, all of Tomyo now uses them: vocabulary, lessons, grammar, situations, texts, news, dialogues, games, Ask Tomyo and the translator.
• In character writing you trace the traditional form.
• In the app characters are converted on the phone itself, so it works offline too.

• Every radical has its own page: its forms, strokes, description and words that use it.

Learn more: What radicals are

• Point the camera at a sign or pick a photo from your gallery. Tomyo reads the Chinese text and shows the translation right on the photo.
• Words on the photo are tappable: pinyin, translation and + to vocabulary, just like in a text.
• Add the Tomyo · Translate widget to your home screen to open the translator in one tap.
• Select text in any app and choose Share → Tomyo to open it straight in the translator.

Learn more: Tomyo widgets

• Each grammar rule page shows the pattern of the construction, so you see at a glance how the sentence is built.
• Level labels show the HSK number first, with the standard version as a separate tag.

Learn more: How grammar works

• Lesson answers are no longer lost on a weak connection or after the site updates.
• Sounds no longer overlap, and an old sound no longer starts by itself after Stop or leaving a lesson.
• Yandex sign-in no longer hangs if you close the Yandex tab, and no longer fails when your Yandex ID has no email.
• On iPhone, the Ask Tomyo answer no longer disappears when you return to the app.
• The Texts list no longer takes long to open.