Learn Classical Chinese online

free interactive course2,220 real sentences works on your phone
one sentence from the course
Classical Chinese兒乃悟
EnglishThe boythenunderstood
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,220 sentences works like this.
2,220real sentences
1,776patterns discovered
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Real Classical Chinese sentences from the course

由陸路
yóu lù lù
By land.
再者
zài zhě
Further.
或者
huò zhě
Perhaps.
彼蒼
bǐ cāng
the sky.
由水道
yóu shuǐ dào
By water.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,220 real Classical Chinese sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,776 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Read how it works.

Learn Classical Chinese from your own language

Most apps only teach Classical Chinese through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

Classical-Chinese-EnglishClassical-Chinese-Mandarin

Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.