Hi guys! I know that going from reading to listening is a big barrier for a lot of Chinese learners. I was thinking about a way to maybe make this a little bit of a smoother and easier process. I’m imagining an optional review section which will play audio of words users have already learned, who will then be prompted to answer either the Hanzi/Pinyin transcription of the audio or the English translation. I know that there is already audio for all of Hanzi hero, but I feel like there is a big difference between passive listening and actively recalling words. I think this would allow users to more concretely connect the sounds of the words they know to the Hanzi. I know for me personally that listening is so much more intimidating than reading since you have to process information in near-real time. I think this system could help learners ease more smoothly into that process by limiting the scope of audio samples only to words that the user knows. When I am listening, most of the times that I miss things it’s because I feel like I haven’t learned the words or characters yet, but a lot of the times I have and I just haven’t ever been forced to recall them before. I think this could be a great way to help students ease more into listening. Let me know what you think or if you have any feedback! Thanks.
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Finding a way to help onboard listening in HanziHero would be pretty cool 
I think the main concern I would have is whether the voices we generated would be accurate enough to work with. Usually for listening you get native audio paired with a book you’re working though.
But you’re right, there is a big gap in listening by our intense focus on characters. Unless you isolate and listen to the word, it’s hard to recognize when you come across it.
It would be interesting to combine this with the idea from the other thread of English → Pinyin 
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