You can speak it. We help you write it.
MandarinLearn is daily handwriting practice for Mandarin characters, scheduled by spaced repetition. It’s made for heritage speakers: people who grew up hearing the language at home and can often speak and understand it, but can’t read or write it.
Why handwriting
Literacy is the gap, not the language. So every prompt starts from what you can already say: the pinyin and a short meaning. You recall the character from a word you know, then write it, stroke by stroke.
Writing is the proof. Picking a character from a list shows you’d recognise it. Drawing it from memory shows you know it. Each stroke is checked against real stroke-order data, and each character comes back just before you’d forget it, less often each time you get it right.
MandarinLearn was inspired by TOFU Learn, which is no longer available.
Get in touch
Email support@mandarinlearn.app.