Your one-stop-shop for Mandarin acquisition
No need for expensive classes, apps, and other online courses that complicate your learning process and provide limited results. The Mandarin Blueprint Method teaches you pronunciation, characters, vocabulary, and grammar in a single step-by-step video curriculum that really works.
Dynamic content that grows with you
Everything you learn builds on what you already know, starting with simple sounds, then onto characters, words, sentences, and eventually entire stories, all tailored precisely to your progress. Just like an expertly-crafted video-game, the content grows with you, nothing is ever too tough or too easy, and you won't be able to stop hitting "next lesson".
A cheat code to
social status
Avoid spending countless hours grinding your way through vocabulary lists and grammar rules like everyone else. Instead, feel the pride and satisfaction of reading, writing and speaking entire dialogues and even full stories from western and Chinese folklore after just a few weeks of learning with us.
A cheat code to
social status
Avoid spending countless hours grinding your way through vocabulary lists and grammar rules like everyone else. Instead, feel the pride and satisfaction of reading, writing and speaking entire dialogues and even full stories from western and Chinese folklore after just a few weeks of learning with us.
Innovative, effective & battle-tested methodology
Innovative techniques supported by decades of the most-cited linguistic research means you get to feel results earlier than other curriculums, and be confident that every minute of your time you invest in learning with us is not just worth it, but essential to your success.
How the course works...
There are 6 unique phases within The Mandarin Blueprint Method. Each phase focuses on a key element of Mandarin and builds seamlessly upon one another in a linear, unified learning experience all the way to literacy and fluency. Here's a quick breakdown of the 6 phases:
Pre-Phase: Pronunciation
Before learning any language, you will make much faster progress if you first learn how to produce, identify and read every syllable. Our video course Pronunciation Mastery will teach you everything you need to know, and it comes free with any subscription of The Mandarin Blueprint Method.
Phase 1: Character Building
Using our patent-pending mnemonic visualization system "The Hanzi Movie Method", you'll learn how to read, write and pronounce any Chinese character in a matter of seconds.
Phase 2: Vocabulary Building
As you speed-learn characters, you will “unlock” new words more and more often. As these new words become available, we guide you on how to acquire them quickly and easily by creating connections to them drawn from your personal memory banks.
Phase 3: Sentence Building
After you've built up a foundation of Chinese words, we will show you carefully crafted sentences that almost exclusively contain characters and words you have already learned. By following this step-by-step process, you will be reading and understanding Chinese in a matter of hours.
Phase 4: Paragraph Building
Now things really start to get fun! On top of sentences, you'll start unlocking entire paragraphs filled with conversations and opinions, all of which you'll be able to read and understand without help! This deeper, more engaging context makes learning grammar an enjoyable and natural process, instead of a mind-numbing slog through a series of textbooks.
Phase 5: Story Building
In this final phase, we'll start introducing popular stories created by our native Chinese writers. Once again, these are expertly designed using words and characters you have already learned. By reading and listening to all of this content daily, you'll find your Mandarin skills increasing faster than you ever thought possible!
High quality video & audio
We produced all of the 350 videos in the course to a high standard in our sound-proof booth, and every single video is edited to be short, engaging and a pleasure to watch. All of our native audio is also studio-quality, and both male and female are available.
Easy-to-use course platform
All 2000 lessons are divided into 36 levels will be accessible immediately from desktop and mobile as soon as you sign up. The videos load quickly, and everything from navigating the platform itself to downloading your support materials is intuitive and clear.
A wealth of support materials
You get 7000+ digital flashcards with images and studio-quality native audio for everything we teach you, as well as mobile-friendly E-pubs with audio, and a huge selection of informational pdf documents so you can easily remember everything you learn.
Outstanding customer service
Your success is our success. That's why we read and answer every email and comment personally, usually through video response or as a part of our weekly podcast. It's just like having your own personal language coaches there with you all the way to fluency.
User Generated Content
Your questions not only will get an answer, but they have the potential to help improve the course! Gain confidence knowing that unlike with other curriculums, suggestions and techniques come not only from the creators but also past clients.
Bonus video on study skills
It's not just about using a methodology that really works, you also need to learn how to build habits and maintain your motivation so you log in every day and work towards your study goals. We share our knowledge on this throughout the course.
What they're saying...
“After slightly more than three months, I can confidently say I know more than 600 characters and 1000 words. Not just how to read and speak, but how to write with the correct stroke order. I'd like to thank Phil and Luke for providing such a groundbreaking course”
Luke Taylor
“Awesome, awesome, awesome course! Phil and Luke really know their stuff. I’ve tried many other methods out there, but I have made more progress in the past 6 weeks using the Mandarin Blueprint Method than I made in the previous year with other courses”
Paul Forbes
Meet The Inventors
Luke Neale
Phil Crimmins
We reached advanced fluency and literacy in Mandarin Chinese, but it wasn't easy. After wasting a lot of time and money on ineffective learning methods we discovered the best tools even invented new techniques that made Mandarin learning easy, cheap and fun. Now we've put all that knowledge into a 100% unique, patent-pending system to learn Chinese online; a blueprint for Mandarin Chinese.
Top Blog Posts
We write weekly articles about all aspects of the Chinese language and Mandarin acquisition. Here are some fan favorites.
Popular Podcasts
We answer all emails and comments by addressing them in the Q & A portion of our weekly podcast. We then reply to everyone with a video clip of us answering their question, creating a super-personal service for all of our users. We also like to share fascinating insights into the Chinese language and culture.
1. The Mandarin Blueprint Method Has Landed!
13. Case Study – Chad Ressler
18. The Godfather, Mr. Meeseeks & A Gardening Scorpion
32. Trump Gets a Loan from Batman & Robin
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Ebooks
We have so much useful information about Mandarin that sometimes an article or a podcast just isn't enough! Click below to download any of these ebooks for free:
The Hanzi Movie Method
This ebook is a walkthrough of our proven, patent-pending system of visual mnemonics for memorizing Chinese characters by using the proven techniques of memory athletes.
How To Speak Chinese Like a Native
This ebook is the product of our 16 years experience learning and teaching Chinese. Guaranteed to save you a lot of time and frustration, and get you to fluency faster.
Chinese Characters 101
A detailed introduction to Chinese characters, covering their history & development, how many you need to learn, strokes & stroke order, the 6 types of chinese character, and more.
Webinars
Check out our on-demand webinars for a more in-depth look into our learning methodology. We always include some nice bonuses at the end.
How You Will Learn Chinese From Your Lived Experience
In this 40-minute webinar, Phil will teach you how to use your personal memories to hack Chinese learning.
The Mandarin Blueprint Method
We walk you through our patent-pending video curriculum The Mandarin Blueprint Method.
Try our free e-course!
In just 19 short video lessons you'll learn the fastest way to acquire Chinese based on the advice and findings from the most heavily-cited linguistic research, world-class polyglots, and our own twenty years of combined experience both learning and teaching Mandarin.
Rapid Acquisition Crash Course
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