Zero Mandarin, one playable minute
Hear it. Guess it. Say it back.
Daily Mandarin teaches English speakers through tiny Chinese situations: listen first, reveal help only when needed, then send weak lines to Practice.
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This updates from local progress: first lesson, due repair, reading recall, daily drill, saved review, or quiz.
Pick a move, not a module
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The full library is still here for Google and serious study. Humans get choices that sound like actions.
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Say one line
A modern sentence with audio, pinyin, English reveal, and recall.
Read a tiny scene
Short story lines that feel like a situation, not a textbook list.
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Decode Hanzi Decode 的
One high-frequency character through three sentences you can say today.
“”。
Fix repair Fix weak answers
Practice pulls back missed quiz cards and saved lines from this browser.
Use Chinese that feels alive
Three tiny doors into the library.
The coffee order: Confirm first
A short graded Mandarin story about a coffee shop moment, built around checking before answering.
。 The coffee shop is busy. 。 He paused for a moment.
Let's first confirm the agenda.
。 Let's first confirm the agenda.
Use this in a meeting when you need clear, modern workplace Mandarin without sounding like a legal notice.
Open business lineSearch when you need something specific Chinese, pinyin, English, stories, phrases, quiz sets
Open the full map Pinyin, Hanzi, phrases, stories, business, modern Chinese
7-day path
Start Here
A guided first-week route through pinyin, Hanzi, daily expressions, stories, modern Chinese, and review.
10 minutes
Daily Drill
A mixed daily practice set with listening, pinyin fade, Hanzi sentences, stories, and work Mandarin.
Active recall
Quiz
Beginner-first quizzes for listening, pinyin, Hanzi sentences, modern chat, chengyu, usage traps, and business Mandarin.
Sound first
Pinyin
Initials, finals, tones, tone pairs, neutral tone, and common English-speaker pronunciation traps.
Hanzi map
Characters
2,000+ simplified Chinese characters with pinyin, English meanings, examples, and clickable audio.
Useful chunks
Phrases
Daily phrases,口头禅, business expressions, travel language, and confusable word pairs.
One image a day
Daily
Funny, useful, modern Mandarin in one visual learning card.
Tiny readers
Stories
Short graded Mandarin stories with sentence-level pinyin, English, and audio.
Actually said
Modern Chinese
Internet phrases,口头禅, chat language, and usage warnings for modern Mandarin.
Work Mandarin
Business
Meetings, follow-ups, polite requests, deadlines, and client communication.
Real scenes
Dialogs
Daily, travel, restaurant, social, workplace, meeting, and messaging dialogues with line-by-line help.
Stories that stuck
Chengyu
Chinese idiom stories with literal meaning, modern usage, English equivalents, and example sentences.
Say it naturally
Translator
Curated English-to-Chinese patterns showing literal, natural, polite, and business-ready Mandarin.
Retention loop
Practice
Local-only review, favorites, pinyin fade, listening drills, and reading practice without an account.
Depth without the first-screen mess
The big library still exists. It just stops shouting first.
2,200Hanzi
6,600short lines
2,640lessons
10quiz sets