By the end
What you'll build
- Produce and hear the four Mandarin tones plus the neutral tone
- Read pinyin accurately, including the spellings that mislead English speakers
- Apply the tone sandhi rules that change tones automatically in speech
- Understand how characters are built from radicals and phonetic components
- Write and recognise your first fifty characters
- Read simple Chinese aloud with correct tones
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
21 lessons across 4 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.