Foundation · Week 1
✓ Done10 min
Homework · count to twenty out loud
Record yourself counting 1–20. Chen Laoshi listens and marks tone slips.
The brief · compulsory
Record a voice note counting 一 to 二十. Slow is fine. Tones matter more than speed.
Voice note. Private — only Chen Laoshi hears it.
Homework used to go privately to a number and get reviewed by hand. Here it sits next to the lesson, private to you and the teacher, with the rubric and note underneath. The 24-hour reminder fires by itself.
Teacher's note
Chen Laoshi reviews Mon–Sat with a four-line rubric: tones, accuracy, fluency, effort. Tone slips get a note; patterns get picked up in class.
Stamped on your scroll.