Pick a course.
The daily lessons are the spine: they teach you to say things, and everything else on the site is built around them. Characters in 30 days teaches the writing system by its parts, HSK 1 and 2 prepares you for the first two levels of the exam, and five topic courses each take one corner of modern Chinese culture and go at it properly. The first three days of every course after the daily one are free, with no account.
One short lesson a day, from the four tones and your first greeting to holding a slow conversation. Pinyin under every line, characters from day one, a culture note in every lesson.
The writing system as its own course: strokes and stroke order, the radicals that hint at meaning, the sound parts that hint at pronunciation, and the characters of signs, menus and messages. 274 characters on its cards, with stroke order you trace on screen.
Preparation for the first two HSK levels: what each part of the paper asks, the vocabulary that scores most, the listening traps, and a short mock test, with the change to HSK 3.0 in December 2026 explained.
Chinese animation, especially the cultivation and fantasy kind: how characters address each other, the vocabulary of power and realms, battle cries, and the four-character idioms the scripts are full of. A listening course.
Play in Chinese: menus and settings, quests and inventories, gacha slang, voice chat with a team, and the myths and legends that open-world RPGs are built on.
Historical fantasy and modern romance dramas: palace forms of address, the pronouns that show rank, the romantic formulas every drama returns to, and the idioms and poetry that give the dialogue its sound.
The Chinese of Douyin and Xiaohongshu: comment reactions, lifestyle and travel words, live-stream talk, moods and memes, and how to write a post of your own.
Reading Chinese comics, most of them vertical-scroll and online: chapters and updates, the particles that give speech bubbles their voice, sound effects, and casual everyday dialogue.