Mandarin Blueprint Reviews 680

I am now two month into the Mandarin Blueprint course and additional material like "Pronunciation Mastery" and "The Mandarin Speaking and Listening Kickstarter". All the components are very well thought through. By now I know 124 chinese characters so well that I can read sentences without needing the help of pīnyīn. I even remember all the tones and can write them. I didn't expect to make such amazing progress in such a short amount of time. And best of all: I am far from being bored at all! Everyday I learn new things and get further and further into knowing the chinese language. I'm looking forward to reading stories and graded readers in chinese soon. And not to forget the amazing team and community which are so kind and supporting all the time. I really have a good time studying with my fellow learners and looking forward to years to come. Thank you Mandarin Blueprint for your amazing work! Keep it up! All the best, Marko.

Great methodology, and motivation incentives on point. I truly believe I’ll learn mandarin with their help, which I thought was nearly impossible before joining MB

This is by far the easiest way to learn Chinese. Yes, not only did I learn characters easily, it also massively improved my Mandarin a lot. Easy, methodical and motivating.
Finding Mandarin blueprint is the best thing that happened to my mandarin learning journey.
Thank you very much.
You guys are the best.

clear structure, great videos, great methodology.. loved it..

After completing the first 45characters in 9 days, the method seems very effective. If I kept this pace for a year I'd be at 1,825 characters, more than halfway to what's required for fluency, but I seems I'm getting faster at it. My only critique so far would be that the subtitle for level 8 is sort of... off-puttingly fatphobic. I get that it's word play on the material, it just kind of makes me cringe and I wonder if it might interrupt learners struggling with eating disorders for example

Mandarin Blueprint has completely transformed the way I learn Chinese. Before this course, characters felt overwhelming and random. Now they feel structured, logical, and actually enjoyable to study.

The character-building method is brilliant. Breaking characters into components and turning them into vivid memory stories makes retention incredibly strong. I remember characters faster and forget them far less often.

The tone and pronunciation training is also outstanding. It builds real confidence from the start instead of leaving tones as an afterthought.

This program requires consistency, but if you put in the work, the results are amazing. For anyone serious about mastering Chinese properly — this is absolutely worth it.

Highly recommended!

Really different, unique, but effective method compared all Other method that I had saw in learning Chinese. I am really grateful for Phil and Luke generousity for letting me and thousands-Chinese-enthusiast experience their first-13th-MandarinBlueprint-level for free. It really works, friend if you’re wondering. And not only the method but they built the community so we as fellow learners can encourage one another.

It's really impressive how this course is made. Feel like a good game, They thought about everything. It's like lifehack, but for your language skills. Mindhack. Even if i didnt understand, i could ask community and get answer in minutes.

I chose Mandarin Blueprint (MB) because I wanted a comprehensive course that would take me from knowing absolutely nothing about Chinese to being able to read, write, and speak well. I've now been using the MB courses for an hour a day for seven months, and I'm impressed with my progress. I just finished the Foundation course (lessons 1 - 36), and I know 600 characters and about 1,000 words made up of those characters without relying on pinyin. That includes knowing how to recognize the characters, how to write them from memory, and their pronunciation (including initials, finals, and tones). I've also completed MB's Pronunciation Mastery course and the Speaking and Listening Kickstarter. I can read easy materials like the example sentences included in the MB course, as well as graded readers from other companies. While I can read aloud quite well, my listening and extemporaneous speaking skills are lagging behind, so I'll need to find some outside resources to practice having spontaneous conversations. But even so, MB has been more than worth the money for the wealth of resources they provide and the smart learning methods they teach. MB has taken me from zero to the point where I can genuinely begin to use the language, and I can see the path the rest of the way up the mountain to fluency. MB includes enough further material (going up to 3,050 characters, way past HSK 6, and many thousands of additional sentences) that I could keep studying at my current pace for another two and a half years before running out. And because MB's learning methods are fun, even after seven months of daily study, I'm not burned out and am excited to keep climbing this mountain. I strongly recommend Mandarin Blueprint and can say that it has been well worth the cost for me.

I'll be honest. I don't want to talk bad about the other sources I used to start learning Chinese, but when I joined up with MB Pro, I had an 820 day streak of Duolingo, accompanied by many other sources and classes. In the 43 days I have been doing the MB curriculum, I have learned more, remembered more, used more, and spoken more Chinese than I was able to before. Their methods are great. My goal is to speak fluently in 2 years and go to China and I know that is possible and will happen doing what Luke and Phil have created. There is nothing like their courses out there and I am glad I found them. Roy S.

It's so much more than the usual language software. It's not just about learning Chinese but it's about learning how to learn Chinese. It leaves me with a sense of continuous progress ahead and not about counting words behind.

I've already left a review for the main course (excellent!), so this review is more about the Pronunciation Mastery course. I got to level 21 in the main course and then started Pronunciation Mastery. I'm so glad I did! Their breakdown and explanation of how to pronounce each sound is so thorough, including vocalization, tongue and lip positions, that I can tell my pronunciation has improved by leaps and bounds. I was able to correct some mistakes and understand things that were confusing me. Plus, it includes simple vocabulary and grammar lessons as will as helpful tips and resources on studying Chinese and language-learning generally. Highly recommend this as an add-on to the main course!

I spent some time researching how to start learning Chinese from absolute zero, even consulting multiple sources (including AI) to compare methods. Mandarin Blueprint kept coming up again and again. I finally jumped in — and it’s honestly surpassed the hype. The approach is clever, intuitive, and weirdly addictive. For the first time, learning characters actually feels fun and doable. I would give 6 stars if i could.. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Since I started my chinese language journey, the most difficult part was writing and understanding characters and how does characters combine to make difficult ones... i saw chinese character and my mind would go 'what the hell is this?'
But now... it feels so wonderful to actually able to read some characters and understand the meaning... this course is a must recommendation for anyone learning chinese.
Very easy to understand and helpful videos.
You people are doing a best job.
Wishing you a very good luck.

I have tried a few apps and course materials to learn Mandarin, however I finally realized I was making little progress.

I follow several sites on YouTube, and saw Luke one day, just as my one year HelloChinese app renewal was due. I liked what he had to say, and it was clear their program was solid, so I began the Mandarin Blueprint Lite for 30 days.

After the Lite program, I immediately subscribed to the Pro program. I'm so glad I did, it's enjoyable, ample resources, great team. I just passed the 100 day mark, and I feel that I am really beginning to make progress now.

Very Pleased with the Program.

Honestly, I never thought I would come this far using Mandarin Blueprint. Their approach got me going nine months since I started. Their lessons are well organized and keep my interest in check. My understanding is now above par and I feel confident that I can take my knowledge for a needed test drive very soon. 谢谢。新年快乐！

I’m going to be completely honest here … I started with the MB Lite, free version with the idea that if I could speak and read Chinese at even the most basic level by the time I finished the first three phases, I would buy the pro version. I felt that this was a considerable investment and I needed to be 100% convinced that I not only could do it but that I would stick with it.

When I started,I had serious doubts about this format for learning Chinese. Not because it doesn’t work since many have learned it using this method and I am in no position to judge the effectiveness of the program over all. My doubts stemmed from my own lack of confidence that it would work for me personally.

But … here I am reading Chinese sentences using the characters I have learned so far with understanding, without pinyin, and being able to pronounce the characters. I am also starting to be able to read other materials that have characters I recognize and get the meaning of the sentences even if I don’t know every character used in the sentence.

I feel now like I can really do this and I plan upgrade to the paid-for MB Pro.

It works. I wasn't sure if I could keep up but I'm reading, pronouncing and writing dozens of Chinese characters after only 2 weeks.

It teaches you to recognise and write easy characters that make up larger ones which means by the time you get to the characters that look complicated, you've already encountered their components hundreds of times before.

I'm so glad I invested and look forward to my xue xi every day.

This course is fantastic! I just learned 3,050 characters. Phil and Luke often claim that you can learn a character in just a minute. At first, it’s hard to believe, but I can assure you, it’s not an exaggeration. The more you learn, the faster it becomes.

Many older reviews suggest that this course is overpriced and only effective for teaching characters, which is not true. The course has improved over time and now offers many additional resources that help you not only achieve solid pronunciation but also become fluent quickly. So, if you want to become fluent in Mandarin while also becoming literate, this is the right place for you.

I’m most impressed by the structure (blueprint) of the course how it applies the 80/20 rule to get the best result for the effort applied; not only identifying the 350 must have words but also the best sequence of strokes and character learning necessary to learn those 350 words most efficiently.
PS. I’ve been using Rocket Languages and Duolingo for years, have over 450 days continuous use on the latter yet Blueprint is teaching me, from day one, stuff I don’t know (mainly the strokes and characters and how to memorise better).