chinese for beginners · workbook series
学中文 · 开口说

Three interactive lessons in one notebook. Every word, syllable and sentence has slow & fast audio, pinyin with tone colors, English meanings, explanations — and games to make it stick. Do the course lessons 1 → 2 in order; dip into the pinyin bootcamp whenever you want pronunciation practice:

course · lesson 1
第三课 我叫…
Words · Sentences · Dialogues

Start here. Introduce yourself and say where everyone is from: 29 words, 9 sentence patterns, the grammar points 是 / 吗 / 不 / 也, and 3 textbook dialogues — plus flashcards, matching, listening and sentence-building games.

29 words9 patterns3 dialogues4 games Open lesson →
course · lesson 2
第二课 我有两本书。
Possession · Measure Words

Next. Say what's yours and what you've got: classroom things, the possessive 的, have / don't have (有 ←→ 没有), and the measure words 本 张 支 个 — with 3 texts, 4 grammar cards and 5 games including the measure-word lab.

14 words9 patterns3 texts5 games Open lesson →
sidebar · pinyin bootcamp
拼音课 ā á ǎ à
Pinyin · Tones · First Characters

Any time, alongside the course. How Mandarin sounds are built: the four tones, initials b p m f and z c s, finals e u ü, 41 four-tone drills, your first 7 characters drawn stroke by stroke — and a full 数字 numbers module: 0–100, the 一 tone-change, a number-building machine, phone numbers and prices, with tone, sound & number games.

4 tones41 drillsnumbers 0–1006 games Open lesson →

Each lesson is a single self-contained folder — you can also open lesson-1/index.html, lesson-2/index.html or lesson-3/index.html directly. Works offline; progress is saved in your browser.