A guided course

Chinese

From your first sounds in Mandarin to confident reading, listening, speaking and writing — one route, small steps, and a useful next action after every lesson.

Foundations + HSK 1–6Listening built inSpaced review

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Chinese Foundations · Find your first sounds

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A few minutes of retrieval at the start of a session beats a long cram the night before. The trainer schedules each word you have seen and keeps a list of the ones you keep forgetting.

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Your route through the course

Chinese Foundations
0/6 lessons

Hear and produce the basic sounds, read pinyin with confidence, meet the first characters, and survive a first exchange.

Lessons → Reading →
HSK 1
0/15 lessons

Introduce yourself, ask simple questions, understand quantities, times, places and basic needs.

Lessons → Guided practice (9) → Vocabulary (150) → Reading →
HSK 2
0/7 lessons

Handle short everyday exchanges, make requests, compare things, describe routines and experiences.

Lessons → Guided practice (7) → Vocabulary (147) → Reading →
HSK 3
0/93 lessons

Connect sentences, explain reasons, describe events, follow longer everyday conversations.

Lessons → Guided practice (3) → Vocabulary (298) → Reading →
HSK 4
0/120 lessons

Sustain explanations, read connected texts, recount experiences, express and support opinions.

Lessons → Guided practice (3) → Vocabulary (598) → Reading →
HSK 5
0/115 lessons

Interpret extended material, distinguish register, develop connected writing and fuller discussion.

Lessons → Guided practice (3) → Vocabulary (1297) → Reading →
HSK 6
0/72 lessons

Understand nuanced arguments, summarise faithfully, write for different purposes, speak with precision.

Lessons → Guided practice (3) → Vocabulary (2499) → Reading →