Learn to Read, Write, and Speak Chinese

Pick a lesson from the menu on the right. Each lesson explains a topic and ends with a quick quiz. The Writing Practice lessons grade your strokes one-by-one — wrong direction or shape is flagged in red so you can correct it.

How the course is organized

• Basics — Pinyin Introduction, The Four Tones, Numbers 1–10, Common Greetings, Numbers Beyond 10, Colors
• Strokes & Radicals — The Basic Strokes, Stroke Order Rules, Common Radicals
• Characters — People & Family, Nature & Elements, Food & Drink, Common Verbs
• Writing Practice — Practice: Basic Strokes, Practice: Simple Characters, Practice: People & Family, Practice: Nature Characters, Sentence: 你好吗?, Sentence: 我爱你, Sentence: 我喝水, Sentence: 我是学生, Sentence: 谢谢你
• Grammar — Basic Sentence Structure, 是 and Adjectives, Asking Questions, Possession with 的, Measure Words, Completed Action with 了, Having & Existing with 有, Location with 在, Comparisons with 比, Modal Verbs: Want, Can, Should
• Culture — Festivals & Holidays, The Chinese Zodiac, Tea Culture, Names & Forms of Address, Food Culture & Table Manners
• History — Ancient Origins, Qin & Han: Founding the Empire, Tang & Song: Golden Ages, Confucius & Daoism, Modern China

Suggested path

1. Start with Pinyin and the Four Tones so you can pronounce what you read.
2. Learn the Basic Strokes and Stroke Order before writing.
3. Open Practice: Basic Strokes and start drawing — strokes are auto-evaluated.
4. Build vocabulary with Numbers, People & Family, and Nature.
5. Tie it together with the Grammar lessons.
6. Open Flashcards any time to review characters you've seen — the deck surfaces the ones you keep missing first.