household vocabulary

The most sustainable way to maintain Mandarin at home isn’t a lesson. It’s the morning routine spoken in Chinese. It’s pointing to the sofa and saying 沙发 instead of “sofa.” It’s asking 今天天气怎么样？ while looking out the window. This cluster covers 60 words across 6 themes — every one of them rooted in daily life […]

School is where children spend most of their waking hours. It’s also one of the domains where heritage language learners most commonly feel their Mandarin is useless — because English is the language of school, and Chinese doesn’t seem to fit. This cluster directly addresses that. Thirty words across three themes — classroom objects, people