HSK Test by Listening

It is becoming obvious that people are looking for HSK courses that prompt with audio. I’ve decided to go ahead and generate a series of courses that will do just that. I’m wondering how people would prefer to be tested. The options are:

  • listen to audio and type the English
  • listen to audio and choose the English definition from a list
  • listen to audio and type the Chinese characters
  • listen to audio and choose the Chinese characters from a list
  • see the chinese word and choose the audio from a list of 4 audio files (not as intuitive as I would like)
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One exists already at least for HSK2.

It test from audio into “hanzi”/Chinese simplified characters. Ideally a mix would be good.

1 is not necessary as we “can” spell English enough, so 2 is better.
And 4?
Not keen on 5 personnaly

Are these courses good?

@DrewSSP, do you ask me about those courses?

If yes: sometimes I have the impression that items from lower levels sneaked in… with level 3 I have my problems - that shouting female, makes me vomit - but afterwards you have the calm voice of Ben and only the “first” possible translation of the item. I do prefer natural voice over any TTS. The creator was responsive in the now deleted course forums. Unfortunately, he’s not active in here…

Yes that question was directed to you. Sorry for not being clear about that that was a terse message that I felt eager to ask without being able to take the time to do so eloquently.

It’s nice to know that these courses exist with quality. I had gotten the impression that they didn’t. Of course, there still doesn’t seem to be an HSK 6 course for this. I’m not sure I’m as intrigued by the idea of only doing an HSK 6 listening course because I’d expect that the be a bit unpopular. I would copy my other HSK 6 course if there was an option to do so and just change the testing directions but I don’t think that feature exists.

why should they not be ok?

@dmitry.kvasov: you forgot to make the attribute “translation” always visible. Without that, the HSK 5 test by audio does not make much sense…

thanks