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First 14 Days · 42 pages
Open First 14 Days →Fix tones that slip when two syllables meet.
Tone-Pair Lab · 33 pages
Open Tone-Pair Lab →Getting started · Starter · 35–50 minutes to plan, then 10–20 minutes per study day · 19 pages
Start here
Choose one useful Mandarin outcome, turn it into a realistic four-week rhythm, and leave with a printable plan you can restart after a busy day.
Pronunciation · Starter · 60–90 minutes across several short sessions · 30 pages
Pronunciation foundation
See how pinyin syllables are built, map the four tones and neutral tone, and practice the Mandarin sound contrasts that most often surprise English speakers.
Getting started · Early beginner · 10-15 minutes a day for 14 days · 42 pages
Starter · Getting started
A calm fourteen-day speaking path that builds one small everyday exchange at a time, retrieves yesterday's language, and finishes with a short original conversation.
Speaking · Early beginner · 60–90 minutes across several short sessions · 19 pages
First conversations
Build a short, two-way Mandarin introduction with flexible question wording, safe answer choices, simple follow-ups, and a polite way to redirect a personal question.
Speaking · Early beginner · 35–45 minutes · 18 pages
First two weeks · Speaking
A printable beginner workbook for thanking, apologizing, getting attention, declining kindly, and reacting naturally in short Mandarin exchanges.
Vocabulary · Early beginner · 90–120 minutes across several sessions · 26 pages
First two weeks
Build Mandarin numbers, read and say simple prices, put dates in Chinese order, and make plans with clock time using one printable practice pack.
Speaking · Early beginner · 60–80 minutes across several short sessions · 22 pages
First two weeks · Speaking
Use relative days, weeks, months, years, parts of the day, and before-or-after phrases to understand and make simple plans in Mandarin.
Pronunciation · Starter · 35–50 minutes, then keep as a reference · 22 pages
Pronunciation reference
Assemble common Standard Mandarin pinyin syllables from legal initial–final groupings, then apply the spelling changes that make a finished syllable look different from its parts.
Writing · Starter · 45–70 minutes with any phone or computer · 18 pages
Practical writing
Set up a Simplified Chinese pinyin keyboard, understand the candidate window, and type useful beginner messages without needing to handwrite every character.
Grammar · Developing beginner · Four 20-minute sessions · 37 pages
Developing beginner · Grammar
A hands-on workbook for arranging who, when, where, action, and object blocks; keeping Mandarin question words in place; and repairing common English-shaped sentences.
Grammar · Developing beginner · 45–60 minutes · 23 pages
Early beginner · Grammar
A printable beginner workbook for building yes-no, A-not-A, question-word, choice, and short follow-up questions without importing English word order.
Grammar · Early beginner · 70–100 minutes across several short sessions · 20 pages
Everyday choices
Choose among 不, 没有, 还没, 别, and 不要, then make a simple preference or polite refusal without translating every English ‘not’ the same way.
Speaking · Developing beginner · 45–60 minutes · 20 pages
Early beginner · Speaking
A self-contained printable workbook for choosing an item, adding a quantity, making a simple adjustment, confirming the order, and finishing politely in Mandarin.
Speaking · Developing beginner · 75–95 minutes across several sessions · 25 pages
Early beginner · Speaking
Choose a garment, color, classifier, and size; ask to try it on; describe the fit; check the price; and complete a short clothes-shopping exchange in Mandarin.
Travel · Developing beginner · 45–60 minutes · 24 pages
Early beginner · Travel
A printable beginner workbook for asking where a place is, following short directions, showing a destination, and checking a taxi or transit route in Mandarin.
Family · Developing beginner · 20 minutes to plan, then daily reuse · 20 pages
Build one warm family routine
Use short, repeatable Mandarin phrases for getting ready, meals, play, chores, comfort, and encouragement without trying to switch the whole household overnight.
Characters · Developing beginner · 4–6 hours across many short sessions · 31 pages
Character foundation
Learn exactly 100 high-utility Simplified Chinese characters in visible component families, and meet every character inside a useful word or phrase.
Characters · Developing beginner · 10–15 minutes per review session · 24 pages
Optional cut-apart deck
Print and cut 48 high-utility Simplified Chinese character cards that connect each written form to tone-marked pinyin, a concise meaning, a visible component cue, and a useful word.
Listening · Developing beginner · 60–90 minutes across five sessions · 26 pages
Early beginner · Listening
Five printable limited-vocabulary Mandarin stories with Hanzi, tone-marked pinyin, English, comprehension checks, and detachable read-aloud scripts.
Pronunciation · Developing beginner · 45–60 minutes · 24 pages
Early beginner · Pronunciation
A printable guide to the most useful connected-speech tone changes: two third tones, low third tone, 不, and 一, with dictionary and surface cues kept separate.
Pronunciation · Developing beginner · Four 15-minute sessions · 33 pages
Developing beginner · Pronunciation
A print-first practice lab for hearing, labeling, and producing all sixteen two-syllable Mandarin tone combinations inside useful words and short sentences.
Grammar · Developing beginner · Three 20-minute sessions · 29 pages
Developing beginner · Grammar
A scenario-based workbook for choosing twelve high-use Mandarin classifiers and using them in complete quantity phrases, questions, requests, and corrections.
Grammar · Developing beginner · 45–60 minutes · 25 pages
Early beginner · Grammar
A printable beginner workbook that separates verb-suffix 了 for a bounded event from sentence-final 了 for a new or changed situation, with careful contrast practice.
Grammar · Developing beginner · 35-50 minutes · 15 pages
Add one useful detail at a time
Grow a short Mandarin sentence by adding time, place, quantity, description, manner, and reason in an order that still sounds natural.
Characters · Confident beginner · 35-55 minutes · 19 pages
Find the one stroke or component that changes the word
Train visual discrimination with high-utility character pairs and families, then anchor each form in pronunciation, meaning, and a useful word or sentence.
Speaking · Confident beginner · Three 20-minute sessions · 32 pages
Confident beginner · Speaking
A printable phrase-and-practice kit for signaling a problem, asking for one specific kind of help, confirming the key detail, and continuing in Mandarin.
Speaking · Confident beginner · 30-45 minutes · 18 pages
Change how a whole line lands
Compare four high-frequency Mandarin sentence endings in real exchanges: ask, return a topic, leave a proposal or inference open, and add a warm reaction.
Writing · Confident beginner · 35-50 minutes · 17 pages
One sound, three written jobs
Separate 的, 地, and 得 by the words they connect: describe a noun, describe how an action happens, or describe the result or degree after an action.
Grammar · Confident beginner · 50-75 minutes · 25 pages
Repair the pattern, not just one sentence
Diagnose and fix literal English transfer involving predicates, 是/有, time and place, classifiers, negation, questions, 了, clause linking, and verb-object chunks.
Travel · Confident beginner · 15 minutes a day for 7 days · 18 pages
Seven short rehearsals before your trip
Reactivate practical Mandarin for rides, hotels, meals, shops, directions, tickets, and conversation repair in seven focused 15-minute sessions.
Getting started · Complete beginner through beginner consolidation · 30 topic lessons at your own pace · 158 pages
A curated practice route across 30 beginner topics
Work through a curated core lesson from all 30 beginner topics in one coherent practice book, with route maps, unit dividers, after-class reviews, consolidated answers, and research sources.
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