An all-in-one solution to learn Mandarin from zero to fluency. Pronunciation, characters, conversation—get it all in this pack!
Mandarin Mastery Pack
A $4030 value for just $1997!
*Special launch price — save $2,000+ off the full value! Price increases soon.
Mandarin Mastery Pack
An all-in-one solution to learn Mandarin from zero to fluency. Pronunciation, characters, conversation—get it all in this pack!
A $4030 value for just $1997!
Get access to:
- ● Get Speaking Mandarin 1-4*
- ● All 15 of our 30-day challenges for Mandarin
- ● Our Pronunciation & Character Masterclasses
- ● The Expert Edition of the Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
- ● A set of 4 semantic component poster PDFs (two for simplified characters, two for traditional)
- You get all of these Mandarin courses — pronunciation, characters, conversation, challenges, movies, and news — taking you from zero to fluency in one complete, self-paced package.
The courses are all self-paced and you get lifetime access, so you can go through them on your own schedule!
*Get Speaking Mandarin 1-3 are available now, while Get Speaking Mandarin 4 is coming in late 2025.
Comparison: Mandarin Mastery Pack vs Language & Culture Super Pack
| Mastery Pack | Super Pack | |
| Price (post-BFCM) | $1997 | $3997 |
| Language Courses | ✅ Included! | ✅ Included! |
| 30-Day Challenges | ✅ Included! | ✅ Included! |
| Culture Courses | ❌ Not included | ✅ Included! |
| Upgrade Options | ✅ Upgrade to Super Pack anytime by paying the difference | ✅ Not needed—all are included! |
| Best For | Learners who are primarily interested in the language, and not traditional Chinese culture | Learners who want everything now and in the future |
Reviews for the Get Speaking courses and method:
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- “An entirely new approach to learning new language patterns and structures while developing speaking skills to a degree I would not have believed possible for a learner of my age, with as full a daily schedule as I have. These last two months have brought about nothing short of a revolution in my language learning.”
Rick (Taiwan)
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- “Through continuous repetition, the course has helped me to better understand what I am hearing and to produce the correct sounds when I speak. The course also gently takes you from very simple grammar and vocabulary to more complex sentences. Together with graded readers, this course has made the largest contribution to my improvement in speaking Chinese.”
Ricardo (Germany)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“I started this course by being very uncomfortable just by trying to pronounce very basic single words. The contents and scheduling are really optimum to smoothly make quick progress towards full sentences. My daily time management is always very constrained. This course allows me to easily practice daily with high efficiency with the very little free time I can find every day. If you want to be able to make progress despite your very busy life, this course is made for you.”
Pascal (Singapore)
Your Instructors
John Renfroe
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics
Before co-founding Outlier, John studied Linguistics and Paleography in the Graduate Institute of Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University. He co-founded and later ran the Taipei Classical Chinese Reading Group, a weekly reading group consisting mostly of graduate Sinology students from western universities. He also taught classical Chinese to members of the group who had no previous instruction in the language. His coursework and research focused on excavated Warring States bamboo texts, historical Chinese character morphology, and the Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 and its commentaries and criticism.
Dr. Ash Henson
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics
To say that Ash is a language enthusiast is an understatement. He speaks Dutch, Mandarin, Cantonese and German, all in varying states of decay. In addition to these, he has learned to some level or another another 7 languages and is currently working on Japanese and European Portuguese. He sees language learning as a chance to experiment. The goal is to find a better way (either getting the same result in a way that takes less time, or getting a better result). And he’s been at it for 30 years! He got his Ph.D. in Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University in paleography and historical linguistics. He was also in the P.hD. program for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language for six years. For his qualifying exams in that department, he had to learn functional grammar, cognitive grammar, case grammar, transformational grammar. So, we've definitely got you covered on the grammar front!
Christine Shen
Christine is an experienced Chinese instructor with two master’s degrees in language teaching. Over her career, she has taught high-ranking managers in major companies, and she currently teaches diplomats, providing instruction from basic daily Chinese to advanced professional language. Her extensive background in language education and hands-on experience with diverse professional clientele allows her to offer tailored and practical lessons. She is passionate about helping students achieve fluency and confidence in Chinese, empowering them to excel in both personal and professional contexts.
Andrew Methven
Andrew is the founder and author of the Slow Chinese newsletter, a free weekly resource which helps over 7,000 China watchers and language learners keep up to date with the latest language trends in China.
A self-taught learner of Mandarin for more than 20 years, Andrew consumes huge amounts of Chinese language news every day. His Mandarin News Mastery course (a more advanced course than this one) is now in its second year, and has helped over 100 upper-intermediate and advanced Mandarin learners dramatically improve their Chinese news reading skills and reading speed.
Andrew began his Mandarin learning journey backpacking in China for a year in 2002. He then lived and studied in Taiwan for three years. He’s had an extensive career in China-related business as an executive in a China-focussed advisory firm in the UK. He holds a BSc in Planetary Science from UCL, and an MA in Chinese Translation and Linguistics from SOAS.
FAQs
What level is this for?
Works from absolute beginner to advanced, taking you every step of the way. Start from zero on the right foot, or fix bad old habits. Our Get Speaking Mandarin courses take you from beginner to advanced, and our 30-day challenges target specific aspects of learning Chinese like tones, handwriting, grammatical particles, or listening comprehension.
Everything is self-paced, and we do regular live Q&A sessions so you can get help from our teachers!
How long will I have access?
You get lifetime access to all courses! You can go at your own pace—there's no time pressure!
In practical terms, "lifetime access" means you'll have access to these materials for as long as we're in business. And we already have over a decade in the books, so we're not going anywhere any time soon! However, if we do have to discontinue these courses for any reason in the future, we'll give you download access for at least 6 months after we stop selling them, so you can keep the materials for yourself.
What’s the difference between this and the Super Pack?
This package is language-focused. If you're primarily interested in learning Mandarin, this is the package for you.
The Language & Culture Super Pack also includes all of our culture courses—Chinese history, literature, philosophy, classical Chinese, and more. If you're not interested in those, or would rather pick and choose which culture courses you get, you should go for the Mandarin Mastery Pack. If you want all of the culture courses, the Super Pack is for you.
Does this include future courses?
Some! The Mandarin Mastery Pack includes all of our current Mandarin language courses, plusthe forthcoming Get Speaking Mandarin 4 (Advanced) and a few 30-day challenges that haven't been released yet.
To get all future Mandarin and culture courses automatically, check out the Language & Culture Super Pack.
A $4030 value for just $1997!
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