Mandarin TempleCome for Knowledge. Stay for Wisdom.For teachers and tutors
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A shared board, a shelf of instruments and the whole HSK curriculum, built for the lesson that is happening now rather than the handout you prepare the night before. Open the board and start; signing in comes later, if at all.
No account, no card and nothing to install. The board opens on a link.
What makes it different
Search for Chinese teaching tools and every result generates a PDF for a photocopier — worksheets, grids, flashcards to cut out. They are good at that. None of them is built for the hour you spend with a learner on a screen, which is where most Chinese teaching now happens.
Every instrument keeps its whole state in the address bar — the characters you chose, the order, the settings. Copy the link and you have saved the lesson; paste it into a chat and you have handed it over. Nothing to export, nothing to attach.
6 of the 21 open without an account.
Stroke order animates at whatever size the screen is. Tones are heard rather than described. A timer, a picker and a scoreboard are there because a room needs them. It is designed for the moment two people are looking at the same thing.
Every board prints from the browser, signed out, on any plan — handouts, a reference sheet, a lesson plan to keep. The printable is the fallback here instead of the product.
What is free, and what is not
The free rung is not a demonstration with the useful parts removed. It is the board, with most of the instruments, usable in a real lesson for as long as you like. What an account buys is keeping and sharing; what a teaching seat buys is a class.
Free, no account
Free
From $39/mo
The widget library shows you which rung each instrument needs before you place it, and the gate is checked when a board is saved rather than when it is opened — so a board someone shares with you keeps working whatever you pay.
How a first lesson actually goes
This is the path a tutor takes on the first visit. It ends with something worth keeping, which is the point at which an account starts to be worth having.
One link, no account. An empty canvas with the widget library down one side.
Drop in the characters, a dialogue, a word bank, a timer. Everything resizes to the room.
Share your screen, or send the link. It is the same board either way, live for everyone on it.
This is the first thing a free account buys: the board is still there next week, and the week after.
The detail, written down
Billing, circles, assignments, every board widget and what each one needs — including the parts that say no. Written by the team that builds it and dated, so you can tell when a claim was last checked.
Nothing here is behind a form. Open a board, build something you would actually use, and decide afterwards whether you want it kept. If you would rather read first, the guide answers the questions in order.