A brush of inspiration.

Every subscription comes with a 21-day free trial. After that, if you are not happy -- 100% guaranteed refunds. There's no risk.

No. Unlike other LMS platforms -- we don't charge per student. We only charge per teacher account. This saves BIG for schools, and makes it easy for teachers to join themselves.

Students sign up for your class, but they do not have an account. Rather, they each get a unique link to content you create. It's simpler, reduces friction, and gets teachers value they prefer.

If you get a yearly subscription, you get 2 months free.

Yes! With every subscription comes access to ALL of Chinese Buddy's learning songs. These songs do NOT include the Club Laoshi downloadable PDFs, though. For that you'll need to purchase here.

Yes, you can cancel anytime. When you cancel, your subscription lasts to the end of the payment period -- and will not renew. You still have access to the end of the payment cycle.

Absolutely, that's the whole point. Character Coach is a tool that transforms YOUR content into gamified fun for students. You bring the vocab, we bring the fun.

Yes! Works great for any classroom or tutoring experience with native or near native language learners, as well as second language learners.

Yes. Character Coach is GDPR compliant. Student email uploads are completely optional and used only for educational purposes. We integrate with Google Classroom and meet Google's privacy and data-protection requirements. We never share, sell, or use student data for marketing. Emails are used solely to deliver assignment access and support Chinese learning—nothing more.

I'm a kind of jack of all trades. I was an ESL teacher (who learned Mandarin) with 20 years experience. I did classical music composition at uni, later figured out animation, recording and music production, then recently studied app development. After creating Chinese Buddy songs—which sought to make Chinese fun and engaging—Chinese characters always bugged me. It seemed like an impenetrable aspect of Mandarin. Through other gamified apps I used in the past, I started to think of a tool for Mandarin teachers that would supercharge their classrooms and further engage learners. Just as my songs have been, this is my next love letter to the Mandarin language which I hope you find useful to your classroom.