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What Mandarin Temple isA tour of the whole product in five minutes — what it teaches, who it is for, and how the pieces fit together. 5 min Your first weekOrientation Day, then the handful of habits that make everything after it stick. 6 min AI credits explainedWhat a credit is, where your starting balance came from, and why it went down by 15. 5 min What Pro unlocksEverything behind the paywall, feature by feature, so you can tell whether you need it. 6 min

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Getting started 6What Mandarin Temple is, how to set up your account, and what to do in your first week.For learners 16Every study surface — the dictionary, HSK lessons, flashcards, the four skill studios and your progress.Pro & credits 6What a paid plan unlocks, how AI credits work, and what each AI feature costs.For tutors 18Run circles, set homework and see what your learners actually did between lessons.For parents 7Set your children up, give them their own logins, and follow their progress safely.For institutions 9Onboard a school: tutors, students, seats, analytics and the evidence behind them.Account & privacy 6Your profile, notifications, what we measure, and how to take your data with you.Troubleshooting 6When audio will not play, progress will not save, or something simply looks wrong.Still stuck? Write to us. A person reads every message, and anything we answer twice ends up here as an article.

教学工具 · For anyone who teaches

The Teaching Board

A slide editor built for Chinese. Drag real dictionary entries, HSK lessons and grammar points onto slides, present the deck onto your learners’ screens, and set what is on the slide as homework. It opens with no account and a lesson already on it.

Open the board Start with the overview

Build it from real Chinese

Drag a dictionary entry, an HSK lesson, a grammar point or a reading straight onto a slide — alongside stroke order, tone cards and a 田字格 grid. 23 teaching tools, no clip art.

Put it on their screens

Present to a circle and every learner follows your slide as you move. They can raise a hand and answer a quick check; they cannot move a thing. No video — it sits beside the call you already run.

Set the slide as homework

Because a card points at the real lesson rather than copying it, what is on the slide can be set as homework that marks against a learner’s own progress.

Or print the whole deck

One page per slide, straight to PDF, free on any plan and with no account at all. The offline fallback for a room with bad internet.

Start from a lesson, not a blank page 6 ready-made layouts

Every one is a real, complete lesson — slides in teaching order, a running order with minutes against each stage, and Chinese you could teach this afternoon. Swap the words for your own.

First lessonA 30-minute trial for a total beginner: 你好, their name, the four tones.
New wordsPresent a vocabulary set, drill it, then make the class say it. About 45 minutes.
One grammar pointOne pattern — 的 for who owns what — noticed, drilled, then used. 45 min, HSK 1-2.
Character writingThree characters that share 女 — take apart, watch, then write. 40 min, HSK 1.
Speaking and tonesA pronunciation clinic: hear the four, then record and match the contour. 30 min.
Review and checkRecall first, then check — a 40-minute HSK 1–2 review that tests before it tells.

The Teaching Board guide 9 articles

Every part of it, written from what the board actually does — including, in each one, what it does not.

The Teaching BoardA slide editor built for Chinese: what it is, what is on the screen, and how to get a lesson onto it. 7 min Putting content on a slideThe Content column: searching 21,000+ dictionary entries, HSK lessons, grammar and readings, and dragging one onto a slide. 7 min Every widget, and what it is forAll 23 tools in the library, grouped the way the palette groups them, and the three a teaching seat adds. 9 min Slides, decks and templatesBuilding the deck: adding and duplicating slides, the six templates, the six backgrounds, and how saving works. 7 min Lesson FlowA running order with minutes against each stage, and one clock. What it does, and the several things it does not. 5 min Presenting to a circlePutting the deck on your learners’ screens, raised hands, a quick check, and what a learner can and cannot do. 8 min Sharing, printing and homeworkThe three ways a board leaves your screen — an unlisted link, a PDF, and a slide set as homework — and what each one gates on. 7 min The free teaching toolsSix board widgets as standalone pages that need no account, remember their settings in the address bar, and print nothing. 6 min Teaching with a board at homeBuilding a lesson on the Teaching Board to sit beside your child with — what a parent account can do, and what it cannot. 7 min

Who it is for

Tutors and teachers: Prepare a lesson once, teach it live, and set what is on the slide as homework. Start from one of six ready-made lessons rather than a blank page.
Teaching assistants and new tutors: The layouts are lesson plans you can read. Open “First lesson” and you have the shape of a trial lesson, with the timings already on it.
Learners and self-teachers: It is free to open and needs no account. Build your own revision deck out of the dictionary and the HSK lessons, and print it.
Parents at the kitchen table: Everything above, minus the three classroom tools. One article says exactly what a parent account can and cannot do. Teaching with a board at home

There is also a page that explains the board to someone who has never seen it — what the Teaching Board is — and six of its tools as free pages that need no account at all.