A full course to take you from Zero to speaking Mandarin with confidence. Covers all of the basic grammar and most common vocabulary, with a huge focus on actually speaking, via repetition drills and an audio/speech focus.

You can choose between PRC and Taiwanese accents, and male or female voices for each. All are included, so just use the voice that matches what you're looking for!

By the end of the course, you'll be able to speak basic Mandarin with fluidity, with good pronunciation, and with an intuitive grasp of the grammar. There's nothing else like it!

A comprehensive course on Mandarin pronunciation. Learn all of the basics of tones, initials, finals, and pinyin, plus all of the tone change rules, extensive practice with 2-tone combinations, and more! We even teach you how to fix tone problems!

Plus, there's a whole unit dedicated to teaching you chorusing and shadowing. These are powerful techniques to improve your accent, your fluidity of speech, listening comprehension, and more. These techniques are even used extensively by conference interpreters!

Everything you need to master Mandarin pronunciation—and even develop a near-native accent—is right here.

Learn how characters actually work and how to learn them most effectively! With 13 lessons and 500+ pages of PDF material, we teach you about the different types of character components and how characters are formed from these basic "building blocks." You'll also understand the different types of meanings a character can have, and how those meanings are related to each other.

After taking this course, you'll know exactly how characters work and how to learn them! And you'll be able to maximize your use of our Dictionary of Chinese Characters, which is also included in the package!

A mobile dictionary (an add-on for the free Pleco dictionary app) which allows you to look up any character (it covers nearly 4000!) and find out exactly why the character looks the way it does. Eliminate any confusion you may have about characters so that you can learn and recall them with ease!

Also included are in-depth entries for 400+ characters which show you the character's origin and evolution. Dive into the incredible history of the writing system and learn a ton about Chinese history and culture along the way! This info isn't avaialable anywhere else in English, and it was developed by a PhD who specializes in the origin and evolution of Chinese characters.