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  • Starting at Zero Mandarin

    Mandarin-curious? Start here. Find low-pressure, high-support tools to dip your toe in - puzzles to expose you to Simplified Chinese, original bilingual storybooks that gently introduce grammar, and recommended resources. Zero Mandarin Cultural Cryptogram puzzle books for all ages are our unique, no-experience-needed intro to characters and culture.

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  • Beginning Mandarin

    Building a Mandarin foundation? Ideal for early learners, heritage families, and teachers guiding beginner Mandarin students, start here to strengthen all Seven Language Skills with structured yet flexible resources. Explore bilingual books with audio, skills & vocabulary builders, plateau-busting resources like fun puzzle books for all ages, and more.

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  • Becoming Fluentish

    Beyond the basics? For intermediate-and-up learners, educators, or fluent speakers supporting others, shop here to expand literacy, deepen comprehension, and refine expression in Mandarin and English. Access translation notebooks, composition tools, expandable vocab resources, bilingual materials with audio, and puzzle books to keep it fun.

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The Best Way to Learn a Language

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Welcome to Zero Mandarin - where culture meets code and ancient Chinese wisdom reveals itself one clever deduction at a time. Do you have to know Mandarin to be able to solve these? Nope! Will you love them even if you do know Mandarin? 肯定的! Zero Mandarin Cultural Cryptograms are for any puzzle lover. You can know Zero Mandarin and still solve these puzzles.

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If you are a parent helping your family to learn Mandarin, or are an educator helping people of any age learn Mandarin, we have resources to support the Seven Language Skills of speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in Mandarin - made just for you.

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    "As a preschool teacher and lover of children's literature, I am in love with this book. The illustrations are wonderful with characters that both parents an children will immediately bond with and love. I also like the theme of these stories as a way of introducing both parents and children to the Chinese language and its characters..."

    - Bert, Amazon Customer

  • Full colour cover of bilingual Mandarin/English children's storybook Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任

    Little Byron / 小白任

    Follow Byron on a voyage through his imagination, which starts in the real world (his bedroom) and takes him over the sea to a deserted island where he finds a very real treasure and returns with it to the real world again. The primary target language of this book is the numbers 1-10.

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  • 3 full colour book cover variations for Study Chinese Guided Journal from Little Crab Press showing a Mountain, a Beach, and a Forest theme

    Study Chinese Gratitude Journal / 感恩日记

    By this time next year you will have created a record of your time to look back on and appreciate how far you have come. This journal is perfect for native speakers of Chinese or students of Mandarin, from age 10 to 100.

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More than Mandarin

  • Whether you're tackling a bucket list goal, learning out of necessity for work, life, or love, a struggling or succeeding polyglot, a classroom language teacher (of any language!), a word nerd or curious human obsessed with etymology or linguistics, or a parent raising bilingual/multilingual kids…you’re our people.

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