By the end
What you'll build
- Use chengyu and common sayings naturally and understand them at speed
- Recognise the homophone humour and internet coinage that fills modern Chinese
- Explain 面子, 关系 and 缘分 as Chinese speakers use them
- Build an argument for a room that weighs relationship alongside logic
- Hold a room: pacing, tone control under pressure, presence and recovery
- Deliver a three-minute signature talk in Mandarin
Curriculum
What's inside
2 modules · 12 lessons
- 01
Idiom, Concept and Colour
5 lessons- Chengyu — Four Characters, Two Thousand Yearsmetaphor idiom
- The Concepts Chinese People Use to Explain Themselves
- Reading the Registerfill blank
- Chinese Humour
- Listening: Humour in Conversationlistening lab
- 02
Building an Argument and the Signature Talk
7 lessons- How a Chinese Room Wants to Be Persuaded
- Argument Structurefill blank
- Holding a Chinese Roompresence lab
- Building the Signature Talkspeech template
- Deliver Your Signature Talkspeech practice
- + 2 more lessons
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
12 lessons across 2 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.