Live Mandarin courses · taught in Arabic
Introduce yourself.Tell the time.Order your food.In Chinese.
Those are the three units of HSK 1, in order. Live classes with a teacher, in a class of 7 to 10 students, and 57 exercises — every single one of them explained in Arabic, not most of them.
The five-tone system
8 weeks, two days a week696 SAR
Your first character
Chinese is not drawing you memorise. Every character has exactly one stroke order, and that order is what makes it fast to write and readable by hand. Watch 大: one horizontal, then a stroke falling left, then a stroke falling right. Three strokes, and the character is finished.
And 大 is not an arbitrary shape: it is 人, a standing person, with both arms flung as wide as they go. "Big".
Write it with your finger. No account, no sign-up.
Trace the three strokes in order. Start on the wrong one and the screen tells you at once — because the order is half of the character, not a nicety.
Fourth tone — falling
Tap the character to hear it
This exact drill is inside the academy: you write the character with your finger, and the screen corrects the stroke order, not just the shape. Handwriting practice covers 24 characters from the course today, and more are added over time.
How the studying works
Two halves: a live class, and a platform you work alone.
Both, not either.
The live class
A session with a teacher in one room online, two days a week at fixed times, two and a half hours each. The class is 7 to 10 students: not a hall of seventy, and not you alone in front of a screen. Your attendance is marked at every session, and your homework is graded by your teacher, who writes back.
The link opens in a browser and you are not asked to create an account anywhere else. And the room is your class’s alone.
The platform
Between sessions you work on your own: the course lessons and their exercises, a daily spaced-repetition review over your own vocabulary, tone drills, stroke-order handwriting, and dialogues explained in Arabic.
And twenty minutes a day beats two hours once a week — which is what the daily review is for.
Inside the lesson
Six lines from the first dialogue in the course.
This is the first dialogue in the unit "Greetings and Introductions", exactly as you will read it in the course.
The pronunciation is your own device's voice, not a recording of a teacher. If your device has no Chinese voice, the lines are written but not spoken.
- A
你好！
Hello!
- B
你好！你好吗？
Hello! How are you?
- A
我很好，谢谢。你呢？
I'm well, thank you. And you?
- B
我也很好。
I'm well too.
- A
再见！
Goodbye!
- B
再见！
Goodbye!
Line 2吗
A question made by a word, not by a tone
Put 吗 at the end of a statement and it becomes a yes-or-no question. You do not lift your voice at the end the way you would in Arabic — you add a word. That is the first place an Arabic habit breaks, so it is said in the first lesson, not in the exam.
Line 3呢
"And you?" in one word
呢 puts the same question back to the person you are talking to without repeating it. It is not a shortcut you pick up later — it is the ordinary way, and it turns up in the third line of the first dialogue.
Line 3很
The trap most learners fall into
A dictionary says 很 means "very". In 我很好 it is not an intensifier at all — it is simply the link between the pronoun and the adjective. "I am well", not "I am very well". You will find that note in the dialogue's explanation inside the course, because it is the difference between a correct sentence and an odd one.
The lines and the notes are from the HSK 1 course itself, exactly as you will read them in your account.
What you can count on
Six things that do not change on you.
From the first day to the last, these hold — whatever happens.
Your class is never cancelled by itself.
A class is only cancelled by a person with the authority to do it, and they have to give a reason. And a class whose lessons have started is not cancelled at all.
If your class never fills, your enrolment survives it.
If a class is called off before it starts, you do not lose your place in the course: you go back on the waiting list and are placed in the next class.
Your whole timetable exists before your first lesson.
The moment your class forms, every one of its sessions is written into your calendar: every date from the first to the last — not week by week, and not "we will tell you later".
One seat per course, never two.
You are never put in two classes of the same course, and your seat is never counted twice — however many times the request is made.
Six o’clock stays six o’clock.
Your class is at the same hour for the whole course. It does not slip an hour because the clocks changed in some other country.
Anyone can verify your certificate, and it reveals nothing else about you.
Every certificate carries a serial number, a verify code and a public link. Whoever opens the link sees four things and no more: the serial, your name, the course and the issue date. Not your email, not your marks, not your attendance.
Who teaches you
You do not enrol with an institution. You enrol with a teacher.
Their name is on every session, on every piece of marked work, and in the message that tells you your class has formed — and you have it before your first session.
- They grade your homework themselves and write you feedback — not a mark on its own.
- They mark your attendance at every session: present, absent, late or excused.
- You message them directly. Messages is a private thread between you and your teacher, not a shared support inbox.
- They are evaluated too: academic supervision follows every teacher’s work and scores it, with notes.
Where you begin
One complete course, and everybody starts there.
HSK is an official ladder of six levels. Today we have the first rung of it, and only that: HSK 1, complete — 3 units, 12 lessons, 57 exercises, 180 words and 12 dialogues, every one of them explained in Arabic. The levels above it are not on offer yet.
And every explanation in it is in Arabic, not in English. The difference is not comfort: when Chinese is explained to you in English you translate twice, and you pay the tax of a middle language on every single rule.
And if you already know some Chinese and are looking for a higher level, this course is not for you today.
Before you pay
The questions people actually ask.
- 1
I'm afraid I won't be able to pronounce the tones.
There are four tones and a fifth, neutral one. The platform carries 91 drills across them, split almost evenly: 22 on the first, 20 on the second, 22 on the third, 21 on the fourth, and 6 on the neutral. You listen, you choose, and you are corrected on the spot — not a week later in a test. Nobody masters them in the first week, and nobody asks you to.
- 2
Chinese characters are impossible.
They are not drawing. A surprising number of them are logical: 一 is one line, 二 is two, 三 is three — so instead of memorising you count the strokes. That is how the first exercise in the numbers lesson explains it. Handwriting practice covers 24 characters from the course today, graded on stroke order rather than on how the shape looks.
- 3
The audio in the exercises — is it a native speaker?
No. The pronunciation in the exercises is a voice your own device generates; it is not a recording of anybody. And on a device with no Chinese voice installed you will hear nothing at all. The human voice in this course is your teacher's, in the live class.
- 4
What if I miss a session?
Class recordings are kept, and the recording of the session you missed is shared with you, so you catch up from it. Alongside it, the lessons, exercises and vocabulary are in your account all week, and anything still unclear you ask your teacher in Messages. Your attendance is marked at every session: present, absent, late or excused.
- 5
How long does the course take?
40 hours of live sessions over 8 weeks: two days a week, two and a half hours each. Between sessions there are 12 lessons in 3 units you work through on your own. Which two days, and at what hour, is set for each intake, and you have it with the timetable before you pay.
- 6
And what if I don't learn anything?
A fair question, and the answer is three things. First: you can see your progress day by day — every lesson finished, every exercise, every piece of homework your teacher marked, in your account. Second: the certificate is only issued at 100% of the course, so you never leave with a piece of paper that stands for nothing. Third: if you decide it is not for you, say so to your teacher or to the academy, and refunds follow .
Start at the first character.
One seat, in a class of 7 to 10 students, with a teacher whose name you know.
Request a seatWhat happens after you click: you type your name, your email and a password you choose, and your request reaches the academy. A person reads it, then comes back to you on to place you in the right intake and tell you the timetable and the price. You are not asked to pay through this page, and you are not asked for card details.
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