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The 8 modules
The Sun, the Mountain and the Walking Person
Chinese characters are not random squiggles — they are pictures that got tidier over three thousand years.
Nǐ hǎo — Say It Loud Enough to Startle a Chicken
Chinese is a language you sing, and the tune changes the meaning, so you must say it out loud and big.
Counting Goats in Chinese
The first three Chinese numbers are just one, two and three lines — the easiest writing in any language on earth.
Mother, Horse, Hemp, Scold
Say 'ma' with the wrong tune and you have just called your mother a horse — so today you check your tones against a real voice.
Everybody in the House
Family words are the words you will say most often, and in Chinese most of them are one syllable said twice.
Watch the Character Build Itself
Every character is drawn in a fixed order of strokes, and watching that order animate makes the character finally make sense.
Hunt for Chinese in Your Own Market
There is real Chinese writing within walking distance of you, and today you go and read some of it.
Capstone: Your First Real Conversation
Today you stop practising Chinese and simply have a conversation in it, start to finish, with another human being.
By the end your child will recognise about forty Chinese characters by sight, produce all four tones clearly, and hold a short spoken introduction with a Chinese speaker. Chinese traders, contractors and scholarship programmes are present across the continent, and a child who can greet someone properly in Mandarin is remembered.