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Stop recognising HSK 1 words.
Start writing them.

You can already read the 150 words of HSK 1 on a screen. This is the pack that puts them in your hand — traced, heard and drilled until they stay.

150HSK 1 words
70printable pages
300audio files
300flashcards
Tracing practice page with 田字格 grids for HSK 1 charactersTracing grids for every character
HSK 1 word list page grouped by categoryWord lists by category
HSK 1 Character Workbook cover70-page workbook

One payment. No subscription, no expiry. An hour of one-to-one costs US$36 — this is yours for good.

Hear it before you buy

Every word in the pack is recorded twice — once at natural speed, once slowed for shadowing. Tap any word to hear the natural-speed version, exactly as it arrives in your download.

Six of the 150. The pack contains all of them, indexed so you can find any word in seconds.

Stroke order, then your own hand

Every character gets its stroke sequence shown step by step, with the new stroke in red — then a row to practise in. The first square is printed faintly to trace; the rest are yours. Order matters: a character written in the wrong sequence looks wrong even when every stroke is there.

好 · hǎo · good — one of 150 rows, laid out in 田字格 guides so the character sits correctly.

What arrives

One zip, three parts, roughly four megabytes. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

The workbook

70 pages, printable A4

Numbered stroke-order diagrams and a tracing row for every character, grouped by the fourteen HSK 1 categories.

  • Stroke order shown step by step, new stroke in red
  • Word lists with a tick-box per word
  • 田字格 guides on every square
  • Three-pass progress tracker

The audio

300 MP3 files

All 150 words, twice over — natural speed and slowed. The same native voice used across WillyChina.

  • Separate natural and slow folders
  • An index mapping every file to its word
  • Plays on any device, no app required

The flashcards

Anki, both directions

Character to meaning, and meaning to character — because recognising a word is not the same as recalling it.

  • 150 cards in each direction
  • Audio wired into every card
  • Step-by-step import instructions

Why writing, when you only need to read?

Because reading alone is fragile. Recognising 好 on a page is a different skill from producing it, and the one that feels like enough is the one that fades first. Writing a character forces you to notice its parts — which strokes, in which order, in what proportion — and that noticing is what makes it stay legible in your memory a month later. It is also the fastest way to stop confusing characters that look alike.

This is the part almost every free resource skips, because a list is cheap to produce and a workbook is not.

Who this is for

A good fit if

  • You are working through HSK 1 and want the characters to stick
  • You learn better with a pen than with an app
  • You want to own your materials rather than rent them
  • You have a printer, or access to one

Probably not if

  • You only want to speak, and never intend to write
  • You are already past HSK 2 — this would be revision
  • You want video lessons; this is practice material, not a course
  • You would rather have a teacher, in which case book a free call instead

Who made this

I grew up speaking Mandarin at home and English everywhere else, after my family moved to Sydney when I was young. Most Mandarin teachers either grew up entirely in China and struggle to see why tones and characters feel so foreign, or they are heritage speakers who never quite reached full fluency. I sit at a different intersection — a native speaker who also remembers what it is to learn from the outside.

This workbook is the practice I set my own beginners, put into a form you can work through on your own.

Will Zhang · WillyChina · more about how I teach

What happens after you pay. The download link is emailed to you within a minute, and it keeps working — so you can fetch the files again on a new laptop, a phone, or in two years. Nothing expires and there is no account to create. If a download ever fails, reply to your receipt and I will sort it out.

Questions

Is this a subscription?

No. It is one payment. The files are yours to keep and re-download on any device, forever.

What exactly do I get?

One zip containing a 70-page PDF workbook with stroke-order diagrams, 300 MP3 audio files — every one of the 150 words at natural speed and slowed — and two Anki flashcard files with import instructions.

Do I need a printer?

For the tracing pages, yes. That is the point of them. The audio and flashcards work entirely on screen.

The HSK 1 word list is already free on this site. Why pay?

The free PDF is a reference list, and it stays free. This is a workbook built for practice: tracing grids for every character, audio at two speeds, and flashcards. A different job entirely.

Which HSK version is this?

HSK 1 as it is currently examined, covering all 150 words. If you are studying the newer HSK 3.0 bands, the free band word lists cover those.

What if the download does not work?

Reply to your receipt email and it will be sorted the same day. The link in your email keeps working, so you can also simply use it again.

All 150 words, in your handwriting

Workbook, audio and flashcards. One payment, and it is yours.

Instant download · no subscription · yours to keep

HSK 1 Complete PackUS$32 · one payment