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Online Chinese courses
Learn Mandarin Chinese with a clear and structured method.
Prepare for the HSK language certificate.
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Learn-chinese.online is an e-learning platform dedicated to Mandarin Chinese, designed for adults who want to learn Chinese independently, at their own pace, with a solid, proven method. Complete and progressive courses, from complete beginner to advanced level, to learn to speak, read and write and prepare for the HSK, the official Chinese language certificate recognized worldwide.
The platform is created and run by Jean Columeau (LI Tianxiang 李天翔), a certified Chinese teacher and former sworn translator-interpreter, together with his wife LI Xiaoqian (李晓倩) — Chinese teacher, painter and calligrapher — who brings full authenticity to the content. A dual French-Chinese culture at the service of your learning.
Much more than a language method, Learn-chinese.online also teaches Chinese culture — essential to communicate with Chinese people and understand today's China.
New HSK — updates in progress
Level 1 and 2 are already updated to the latest version of the HSK (v3.0, November 2025).
Update of the following levels — provisional schedule:
- Level 3 — begining of 2027
- Levels 4, 5 and 6 — during 2027
These are not just updates to the syllabus: above all, they bring many improvements.
The first 5 sequences of level 1 are 100% free! Discover level 1
A method that makes the difference
Dynamic learning
Writing comes to life, stroke by stroke.
学Rich, complete content
The evolution of every character, from its origins to today.
马金文马篆書马隸書马楷書繁马楷書简3,000 years of evolution of the character for horse
A spiral progression
Each concept comes back and grows richer at every level.
E.g. “introducing yourself”: greetings, then job, age, family…
A clear, structured method
The same clear path for every sequence.
Characters & writingVocabularyGrammarDialogue & cultureExercises & quizzesMandarin Chinese Courses
Level 1 (new HSK!)
Average study time: 80 hours
17 sequences / 316 new words
Complete simulation of HSK 1 tests49,00 €
Level 2 (new HSK!)
Average study time: 60 hours
12 sequences / 200 new words
Complete simulation of HSK 2 tests49,00 €
Level 3
Average study time: 100 hours
12 sequences / 300 new words / 600 words
Complete simulation of HSK 3 tests59,00 €
Level 4 part 1
Average study time: 100 hours
11 sequences / 300 new words / 900 words
Complete simulation of HSK 4 tests
a bank of 420 questions59,00 €
Level 4 part 2
Average study time: 100 hours
10 sequences / 300 new words / 1200 words
Complete simulation of HSK 4 tests
a bank of 770 questions59,00 €
Level 5 part 1
Average study time: 100 hours
12 sequences / 400 new words / 1600 words
Complete simulation of HSK 5 tests
a bank of 800 questions59,00 €
Level 5 part 2
Average study time: 100 hours
12 sequences / 450 new words / 2050 words
Complete simulation of HSK 5 tests
a bank of 800 questions59,00 €
Level 5 part 3
Average study time: 100 hours
12 sequences / 450 new words / 2500 words
Complete simulation of HSK 5 tests
a bank of 800 questions59,00 €
Premium
Access to all courses
For advanced users
For those who progress quickly
To pass several HSK levels139,00 €
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Congratulation!!!
You can embark on the discovery of the Chinese language and culture.
The teachers
The learn-chinese.online courses are designed and taught by two teachers: a Frenchman and a Chinese woman. The first knows from the inside what holds a Westerner back when learning Chinese and facing cultural differences; the second brings all her authenticity to the language and culture as they are practised in China. This dual perspective deeply shapes the courses, both in their teaching design and in the place given to linguistic content and social codes (which often weigh more heavily in a relationship than language itself).
Jean Columeau
李天翔 Lǐ TiānxiángCertified teacher of Chinese
Teaching and technical design of the siteHe has been teaching Mandarin Chinese since 2006 to a wide range of learners: adults in professional and university settings, secondary school students, both in the classroom and at a distance. He has also taught at the Cned (the French national distance-learning centre) and worked for eight years as a sworn translator and interpreter, so he knows well what the professional world needs when learning Chinese. A keen self-learner who could not find a satisfactory method for Mandarin Chinese, he created learn-chinese.online in 2012, building in everything he would have wanted as a learner.
Xiaoqian Columeau
李晓倩 Lǐ XiǎoqiànTeacher of Chinese as a foreign language
Co-founder and project manager of the siteBorn in Jiangsu province and a former journalist in Nanjing, she trained as a Chinese teacher at the 北京华文学院 Běijīng Huáwén Xuéyuàn, which trains teachers working outside China. The interface and visual materials of the courses are her work. A painter and calligrapher, she passionately conveys all the beauty of the Chinese language and culture. Living in France since 2005, she knows cultural differences well, and how hard it is to learn a language as distant as Chinese.