Will
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How Will teaches Mandarin
Three steps. No apps, no group classrooms, no fixed schedule.
Free Intro Call
A relaxed 30-minute conversation. Tell Will about your goals, current level and what matters to you. He listens first — no obligation, no sales pitch.
Personalised Roadmap
Will designs a structure with clear milestones, tailored materials and a realistic timeline matched to your life — not a generic curriculum.
Weekly 1-on-1 Lessons
Live video lessons in your time zone. Most students notice a real shift in confidence within the first few weeks.
“Will made the tones click surprisingly quickly — exactly the right approach for someone starting completely from scratch.”
What I bring to every lesson
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How to Add Mandarin to Your Homeschool Plan
Homeschool Mandarin made simple: hours by age, a 10-week term plan, milestones, record-keeping for your local rules and free Week 1 audio. Read more
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The 100 Most Common Chinese Characters
The 100 most common Chinese characters by frequency, each with pinyin, meaning, an example word and native audio, plus a quiz to test yourself. Read more
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Chinese Stroke Order Rules: The 8 Rules
The eight Chinese stroke order rules, with characters that animate stroke by stroke, and why the order makes your handwriting faster and neater. Read more
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How Chinese Characters Actually Work
Chinese characters aren’t pictures to memorise. How components, radicals and the meaning-plus-sound pattern behind most characters actually work. Read more
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How to Choose Your Own Chinese Name (the Right Way)
Choosing your own Chinese name is one of the small joys of learning Mandarin — a real rite of passage. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it, and the difference is the gap between a name that sounds like a foreigner reading a phonebook and one that reads like a… Read more
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Chinese Names for Boys: 150 Strong Names & Meanings
A Chinese name for a boy is a wish carried in characters. In just one or two characters it can hold a hope for strength or wisdom, an upright character, or a future as vast and open as the sky — every character chosen on purpose, for what it means. This guide gathers 150 strong… Read more
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Chinese Names for Girls: 150 Beautiful Names & Meanings
A Chinese name for a girl is a small poem. In just one or two characters it can hold a wish for beauty, grace or wisdom, the image of snow or an orchid, or a quiet blessing for a happy life — every character chosen on purpose, for what it means. This guide gathers 150… Read more
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The 100 Most Common Chinese Surnames: Meanings & Audio
A Chinese surname is one of the oldest things a person carries — a single character that can reach back thousands of years to an ancient state, a noble fief, or a name an emperor once handed down. And here is the surprise that catches every learner off guard: a tiny handful of these surnames… Read more
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How Chinese Names Work: Surnames, Given Names & Meaning
A Chinese name carries more than a Western one. Packed into just two or three characters is a family’s history, a set of hopes for the child, and a small poem of meaning — all chosen with real care. From the reversed order to a surprisingly small pool of surnames and given names hand-picked for… Read more
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Learning Mandarin in Retirement: It’s Never Too Late to Start
Picture this: you’re on a trip you’ve waited years for, standing in a tea shop in Chengdu, and instead of pointing and smiling, you ask — in Mandarin — which tea the owner recommends. A short exchange follows. It’s halting and imperfect, and it’s one of the warmest moments of the whole journey. That moment… Read more