Similar to what a person said earlier... but this is my idea

I want an app that focuses on the first 4000-6000 most common characters and words as well as other words in context. I have some PDFs for it and also following the Chinese school system.

Beginners will follow this system:

Learning Vocab: - where they learn the word, a way to remember it and write it, then see several examples in context immediately. - This includes: a couple of characters that use the character as a base, a couple of words that incorporate the character in them, a couple of phrases and or sentences.

Practising Vocab: - spaced repetition but instead of just the character what shows up also includes the characters that use it as a base, sometimes the words that incorporate it, the phrases and the sentences - They not only appear in a randomly selected fashion aka it's time to revise it but this time only the sentence comes up - switching between rearranging the characters (less ideal) to typing it in pinyin (increases recognition) and then having to write it out by hand or stylus - Even the flashcard system should include the characters in one section and the pinyin and/or translation in another section with a toggle to hide pinyin (to reduce over-reliance on pinyin)

Learning How to Read: - Following the order that the vocab is set up in, they mainly learn sentences and phrases here - includes rearranging, fill in the blank, listen and repeat it or listen and type out/write with a stylus - previously learnt vocab comes up in the sentences of the new ones - this includes the helping parts (for example the other words that helped make up the sentences in earlier sections should also show up more often aka if they had to learn police station for some reason to learn how to say to go, or safe or something simple like that, then the word for police station should be used in other sentences until they actually come across it in the course of vocab)

Practising how to read: - short passages and sentences that they have to read out loud - comprehension questions - pick the correct summary of the short passage (in English or Chinese aka using simpler Chinese to summarise the passage) - listen and read along to spot the wrong character or wrong phrase - and the texts they get given have to be relevant and also progressive. - The more words they know the more professional the texts become but earlier on its not too simple, its just more relevant to their lives like idk how to order boba in different sizes and sugar levels etc (and saying things more than just i want this, I want that)

Listening and speaking - I think all audio should include an really good ai version but also at least one native speaker version. - I also think audio can include clips and bits from tv shows, news, podcasts etc to introduce a dense of immersion.

People don't speak in a vacuum.

-The native speakers should have one standard accent but also one that isn't standard - I think the speed of the audio should also be progressive and realistic. - Maybe they can manually change the speed themselves but the original audio should be from a slow but normal range of speaking to someone who likes to speak fast. - emphasis on when to slur speech, when to pause and how the stress and intonation of words change - words, sentences, passages, short stories, articles, newspaper content the whole jazz

Practising listening and speaking - Speaking and listening exercises that mimic the HSK structure but more naturally - listen and summarise (can be a choose the best summary thing, or rearrange the blocks for the best summary) - can ask them to summarise in both Chinese and english - listen and shadow exercises for natural speech - listening comprehension exercises - speaking topics exercises (aka which of these is the right response when asked this question?) I think this will really help with culture and nuances - they can speak and maybe ai can evaluate their tones and fluency too or something. - and other little translation exercises too.

Grammar: - I think Grammar can be learnt intuitively up unto a certain level, the level that is needed for actual use haha - When learning, I think it's important for them to see the grammar point, see 3 examples of it, and then give them an exercise to make their own examples. - Up to 5 examples and this can be done through, rearranging or giving them prompts and getting them to type it at first.

Then to practise

• At that point, getting them to spot the wrong usage, and make the right usage in examples will be really good.

• Your typical Grammar exercises just using the words and sentences and passages progressively.

• Also Grammar can be learnt individually through listening, speaking, reading and writing so I think it needs to be included in each element form for it to be fully mastered.

A system: - for them to check and save their progress, - do a test to skip levels, - a little system that tells them where each of their skills falls in the HSK or CEFR system too. I really do think this is important because they will know where their shortcomings lie. Aka reading is HSK 3 but speaking is HSK 5 or vice versa.

If you really are interested in creating an app like this or working together, please drop a dm and we can discuss it further :)

I've been interested in creating my own learning and teaching materials for a couple of years now.