Chinese Learning Printables: Guides & Tips
These guides are for English speakers starting Mandarin from zero, and for parents helping a child who is learning it at school or at home. Each one takes a single piece of the language and explains it the way a beginner meets it: the sound system first, then how characters are built and written, then phrases you can say out loud.
You’ll find how pinyin spells each syllable and where English readers misread it, how the four tones change in real speech, the stroke order rules with grid paper practice, the radicals that show up most often, and short phrases for greetings, food and Lunar New Year. Phrases are written in characters with pinyin and an English meaning.
When a guide uses one of our printable character practice books, flashcards or vocabulary workbooks, it links to it.
All 6 guides, newest first
How to Teach Kids Chinese: Pinyin, Characters, First Words
A home plan for parents teaching Mandarin to young children: what to do at each age, a 10-minute daily routine, the first words and characters, and how to tell it's sticking.
Chinese Character Flashcards for Kids$3.99How to Say Happy New Year in Chinese: Sayings & Replies
The Mandarin greeting syllable by syllable, which wish fits grandparents, coworkers and kids, what to say back, and the four-character sayings families use at Chinese New Year.
HSK 1–6 Chinese Character Writing Workbook$6.99Chinese Radicals: List of Common Radicals and the Kangxi 214
What a Chinese radical is, why the count is 214 in one list and 201 in another, a table of 29 common radicals with examples, and how to use them to look up characters.
HSK 1–6 Chinese Character Writing Workbook$6.99What Is Pinyin? Tones, Rules and How to Read a Pinyin Chart
What pinyin is, how a syllable is built from an initial, a final and a tone, the spelling rules that trip learners up, and how to read a pinyin chart or type pinyin.
Chinese Character Flashcards for Kids$3.99Basic Chinese Phrases: Easy Mandarin Phrases With Pinyin
Mandarin greetings, thank-you replies, restaurant and shopping phrases and New Year wishes, each with characters, tone-marked pinyin and the usual reply.
English–Chinese Vocabulary Workbook for Kids$4.99How to Write Chinese Characters: Stroke Order and Grid Paper
The stroke order rules for Chinese characters with worked examples, what the lines on tián zì gé and mǐ zì gé grid paper are for, and how to practice on them.
HSK 1–6 Chinese Character Writing Workbook$6.99
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