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Printable Mandarin workbooks, stroke-order sheets, native audio and flashcard decks — downloaded once and yours for good. Self-paced courses and merchandise are on the way.

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If you are new to this, one pack does more for you than the rest combined.

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HSK 1 Complete Pack

Every one of the 150 HSK 1 words, with stroke order for each character, audio at two speeds and flashcard decks in both directions. If you learn nothing else this year, learn these.

150HSK 1 words
73printable pages
312audio files
312flashcards

Less than US$36, which is what one hour of one-to-one teaching costs — and this one does not end when the hour does.

US$32one payment · yours to keep
Get the pack — HSK 1 Complete Pack
Delivered in a minuteThe download link is emailed as soon as the payment clears, and it keeps working — fetch the files again on a new laptop in two years.
One payment, no accountNothing to subscribe to, nothing to cancel, nothing to sign in to. There is no account.
Yours to print foreverFiles you own outright, on as many devices as you like, for as long as you like.
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The HSK path

The five-level standard, still what most textbooks and most exam boards follow. Each pack builds straight on the one before it, so the method never changes — only the vocabulary does.

HSK 3.0, the 2021 standard

Use these instead if your exam follows the newer banded syllabus. Same format and same method as the packs above — a different word list.

Not tied to a level

Two packs that are useful whatever level you are, and — if you are not sure which level that is — the test that tells you before you spend anything.

哪 nǎ

Which level am I?

Twenty minutes, no email address, and an honest answer. Most people guess a level above the one they are actually at, and buy the wrong pack because of it. Take the test first.

  • Where you sit on the HSK scale
  • Which pack to start with
  • What to work on next

Free · nothing to download

Take the level test

What is in every printable Mandarin workbook

The same four things every time, whichever pack you buy.

A printable PDF workbookStroke-order diagrams and tracing grids for every character, laid out for A4.
One MP3 for every wordRecorded twice — natural speed and slowed — in the same voice used across the site.
Anki decks, both directionsHanzi to English and English to hanzi, ready to import into Anki, which is free. Nothing to set up.
All of it in one zipA single download. No streaming, no app, no login, nothing that can expire.

Compare every pack

The same four numbers for all ten, so you can see exactly what changes between them. Every figure is what the file actually contains.

Every WillyChina pack compared by content, pages, audio files, flashcards and price
PackCoversPagesAudioFlashcardsPriceBuy
HSK 1150 HSK 1 words + 6 extras73312312US$32Get it — HSK 1
HSK 2151 HSK 2 words + 11 extras75324324US$32Get it — HSK 2
HSK 3300 HSK 3 words139600600US$32Get it — HSK 3
HSK 4600 HSK 4 words2721,2001,200US$32Get it — HSK 4
HSK 51,300 HSK 5 words5812,6002,600US$35Get it — HSK 5
HSK 3.0 Band 1300 Band 1 words81600600US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 1
HSK 3.0 Band 2198 Band 2 words69396396US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 2
HSK 3.0 Band 3198 Band 3 words72396396US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 3
HSK 3.0 Band 4196 Band 4 words81392392US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 4
HSK 3.0 Band 5195 Band 5 words82390390US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 5
HSK 3.0 Band 6198 Band 6 words78396396US$32Get it — HSK 3.0 Band 6
214 Radicals214 radicals69830856US$32Get it — 214 Radicals
Chinese Naming Kit100 given names12444—US$7Get it — Chinese Naming Kit

Every pack is a one-off payment, and every file is yours to keep. The Naming Kit is the one item with no flashcard deck, which is why that cell is empty.

How to choose

Five situations, and what we would tell you in a lesson if you asked.

You are starting from zero

HSK 1. One hundred and fifty words is roughly the point at which a language stops feeling like noise, and the workbook makes you write each character rather than recognise it, which is the difference between reading a menu and ordering from it.

HSK 1 Complete Pack

You can already recognise characters but cannot write them

The Radicals Pack. Characters are built from about two hundred components; once you know them, an unfamiliar character stops being a picture and starts being a word you can take apart. It makes every level after it cheaper in effort.

The 214 Radicals Complete Pack

You have an exam to sit

Check with your exam board which standard it follows before you buy anything. Most still use the five-level HSK, so HSK 1 to 5 is the safe answer. If yours has moved to the 2021 banded syllabus, use the HSK 3.0 packs instead — the word lists overlap but they are not the same.

HSK 3.0 Band 1 Complete Pack

You are somewhere in the middle and not sure where

Take the level test first. It is free, takes twenty minutes and asks for no email address. Most people place themselves a level above where they actually sit, which is the single most common reason someone buys the wrong pack.

Take the free level test

You only need a Chinese name

The Naming Kit, and nothing else. It is the one item here that is not part of a path — a hundred given names and a hundred and twenty-four surnames with what each one means and how it lands with a native speaker.

The Chinese Naming Kit

Free, and genuinely free

Free to read in full, right here on the site — no payment and no account. If you want the printable PDF as well, that one is emailed to you. They are useful on their own, and they are the honest way to find out whether our material suits you.

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What we are making next

Self-paced online courses. Full courses you work through online at your own pace, from the same teacher and the same material these packs are made from. 课 kè is simply the word for a lesson.

Merchandise. Things worth owning rather than things with a logo on them. Nothing is designed yet, so there is nothing to show you — which is exactly why it is listed here and not pictured.

Interested in online Mandarin lessons with WillyChina?

One email when there is something new to buy, and nothing else — no newsletter and no other list. Reply “remove” at any time and you are off it.

Not on sale yet. If you would rather not wait, the one-to-one lessons are running now.

FAQs

A single zip. Inside it: the printable workbook as a PDF, one MP3 for every word at natural and slow speed, and Anki flashcard decks in both directions. Nothing streams and nothing expires — the files sit on your own machine.
As often as you like, for as long as you like. It is a file you own, not a licence that runs out or a login that lapses.
HSK 1 if you are beginning. The Radicals Pack if you want to read sooner — radicals are the components characters are built from, so learning them makes every level after it easier.
Check what your exam board or textbook uses. Most still follow the older five-level HSK; the 2021 banded standard is newer and being taken up gradually. The two word lists overlap but are not the same. The exam itself is run by Chinese Testing International, and their site is the authority on which standard a given test centre uses.
By email, the moment the payment clears. The link does not expire, so you can fetch the files again on a new laptop years later.
No. There is nothing to create and nothing to cancel. You pay once through Stripe and the files are yours.
Will, the Mandarin teacher behind WillyChina, sitting and smiling in a bright room.

Who makes these

I grew up speaking Mandarin at home and English everywhere else, after my family moved to Sydney when I was young. That is the whole reason these exist: most teaching material is written either by someone who never had to learn the language, or by someone who never had to explain it in English.

Every one of these printable Mandarin workbooks is the practice I set my own beginners, put into a form you can work through on your own — the same stroke order, the same voice on the audio, the same order of teaching. Nothing here is material I would not use in a lesson.

Will · native Mandarin speaker · teaching since 2015 · more about how I teach

“It’s affordable, easy to use, detailed and interactive. I was able to easily print it out and practise my handwriting. It was a tremendous resource for my HSK preparation.”
Eric — on the HSK 1 Complete Pack.
Lena, a Mandarin student from Germany, smiling
“Will is an excellent teacher who helped me go from no Mandarin to semi-fluency within three months.”
Lena — on the one-to-one lessons, not the packs. If you would rather learn with a person than a printout, that is what the lessons are for.

Start with the first 150 words

150 HSK 1 words, 70 printable pages and 300 audio files, for less than the price of one hour of one-to-one teaching.

Get the HSK 1 Complete Pack