WISETRIBESAIRA MANDARIN
🇨🇳 Mandarin Curriculum
The full lesson-by-lesson path AIRA teaches, one-to-one — from your first words to real conversation.
34Lessons
3Levels
15-30Min / lesson
1:1AI-tutored
Full path (all 3 levels): ~8.5-17 hrs of lesson time in total, at AIRA's standard 15-30 minute session length. Actual pace depends on how often your child practises.
Maps to HSK 1 / 2 / 3
Level 1 · Foundations — 17 lessons · ~4.5-8.5 hrs
- IntroductionsGreetings, please/thank you/sorry, basic pronouns.
- Family & friendsNaming and introducing family members and friends.
- SchoolStudent, teacher, classmate, simple identity statements.
- HomeImmediate family members, extending the "who is this" pattern.
- Food & drinksCommon foods/drinks, saying what you have.
- Time & routinesToday/tomorrow/yesterday, basic time words.
- HobbiesTo eat/to drink/to like, morning/evening/now.
- Weather & placesQuestion words — what/where/who/how.
- Getting AroundTransport words, 去/来/到 for movement.
- Shopping & MoneyBuying things, asking the price, measure words 个/本.
- Birthdays & CelebrationsBirthdays, gifts, saying your age with 岁.
- AnimalsCommon pets, 有 for possession, measure word 只.
- Simple DescriptionsBasic adjectives with 很 (big/small/hot/cold).
- Clothes & ColorsClothing items, colors, 的 for possession/description.
- Body & Simple HealthBody parts, saying something hurts, feeling tired.
- Phones & ContactPhone numbers, names, 怎么 for asking how.
- Classroom ActionsPolite classroom instructions with 请 + verb.
Level 2 · Everyday Conversations — 5 lessons · ~1.5-2.5 hrs
- Daily routinesDescribing an ordinary day.
- Past eventsTalking about something that already happened.
- Future plansTalking about what you will do.
- Food & restaurantsOrdering food, restaurant vocabulary.
- HealthTalking about feeling unwell, simple health vocabulary.
Level 3 · Real Conversations — 12 lessons · ~3-6 hrs
- ExperiencesTalking about things you have done.
- Plans & ambitionsTalking about longer-term goals.
- Reasons & resultsExplaining why, cause and effect.
- Problems & solutionsDescribing a problem and suggesting a fix.
- Technology & mediaTalking about phones, apps, and media habits.
- EnvironmentSimple environmental topics and opinions.
- Culture & societyTalking about customs and social topics.
- StorytellingNarrating a short story or event.
- Opinions & discussionAgreeing, disagreeing, giving an opinion.
- School/work interactionConversations set in a school/work context.
- Real-world interactionEveryday transactional conversations.
- Feelings & relationshipsTalking about emotions and relationships.
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