No, that's just a preconceived idea. Like with any learning process, learning Chinese requires regular practice and patience, but it is not a complicated language. The Chinese language has no conjugations and very little grammar, you just need to train your memory a little to remember the characters!

Around 3,000 characters will allow you be 99% proficient in Chinese and make you bilingual. This is the number of characters you need to know in order to be able to read a newspaper in China. But depending on your goals, the number of characters you need to know can vary: for example, 100 to 200 characters may be enough for you to find your way around China. And with 800 to 1,000 characters, you will get along very well in everyday life.

Mandarin is the official language in China, it is spoken by more than 1.3 billion Chinese, while Cantonese is a dialect of the southeast, spoken by only about 73 million people. Mandarin is the language taught in Chinese schools. Today all Chinese people speak it. It would therefore be much easier for you to communicate in China using Mandarin.

Simplified characters are the most common. They are used throughout China, and they are the characters taught when foreigners learn Chinese. Nevertheless, if you want to go to Taiwan - where the simplified form is not used - you will need to know the traditional characters.

Yes, we have included all the characters that appear in the school curriculum for LV1, LV2, LV3 as well as the International Section.

From 5 years of age upwards. There is no age limit after that. A language can be learned at any age, all you need is the desire to learn it!

No, disorders like dyslexia and dysorthographia, etc. are caused by the alphabetical principle in a language. However, the fact that Chinese is an ideographic language does away with that issue. It only contains 'drawings' that are combined to form sentences. But please note that this means that people with dysgraphia may experience more difficulties.

Yes, with more than 1.3 billion people speaking it in China and more than 40 million speakers abroad, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world.

With our method, one year is enough to reach level HSK4, but it all depends on how applied you are and your level of motivation!