By the end
What you'll build
- Handle thirty everyday Chinese situations with the right words and tones
- Pay, travel and communicate in a near-cashless, app-driven country
- Count and understand prices, including the ten-thousand grouping
- Order food, ask for what you want, and handle a shared table
- Read the etiquette around hospitality, face and gift-giving
- Ask for help and keep the conversation in Chinese
Curriculum
What's inside
4 modules · 21 lessons
- 01
First Contact
5 lessons- Greeting, Names and Face
- Greeting and Meetinglistening lab
- Introducing Yourselfspeaking lab
- Word Power: The Survival Fifteenword power
- Face and Registerfill blank
- 02
Money, Apps and Shopping
6 lessons- China Runs on QR Codes
- Paying and Shoppinglistening lab
- Numbers and Moneyfill blank
- At the Restaurantlistening lab
- Hospitality, Tea and the Table
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Getting Around and Getting Help
4 lessons- Transport, Health and Paperwork
- Getting Aroundlistening lab
- Living in Chinafill blank
- Speaking Lab: Your First Weekspeaking lab
- 04
Putting It Together
6 lessons- Word Power: Thirty More Survival Wordsword power
- Listening: A Full Daylistening lab
- Flashcards: Survival Mandarinflashcard sr
- Final Check: Survival Mandarinquiz
- Picture It & Speak — AI Image Studioimage lab
- + 1 more lesson
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.