Laoshi Classroom

spend your time on students, not on pinyin

Classroom already speaks Chinese. Paste a text and pinyin, translations and audio appear. Word lists from more than 70 textbook series are ready, and your students' answers come back to Classroom. You teach; your students reach the goals they set.

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14 days free. Lessons are free for your students.

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我们wǒ men今天jīn tiān学习xué xí新的xīn de课文kè wén。老师lǎo shī说得shuō de很hěn清楚qīng chu。

why we built Classroom

A teacher should teach, not spend evenings putting materials together. A student should reach the goal they set: start speaking, read, prepare for HSK. Classroom does the part of the prep that needs Chinese: pinyin, translations, audio, textbook words. Your time stays with your students.

Your timeFewer evenings go into prep and checking homework, so more of your time goes to your students.

Your incomeNobody pays you for the hours around a lesson; Classroom takes on part of that work. Lessons are free for your students.

Your student's goalStudents practise between lessons: they listen, read and review words. You see what's done.

where the time goes, and what changes

The lesson text

You add pinyin, translations and audio yourself.

Paste the text, and pinyin above the words, translations on hover and audio appear. Dialogues are voiced by the characters you set up.

Words

You copy words out of the textbook by hand.

More than 4,400 ready word lists from more than 70 textbook series and HSK; you assign them to your class.

Homework

Voice messages and screenshots in your messengers.

Answers come back to Classroom — who submitted, how many answers are right, every answer. Send work back for another try and give a grade.

what your students see

Students open the lesson in the browser, nothing to install: text with pinyin and audio, translations on hover, role-play dialogues, tasks. Lessons from you are free for them. They can also study the words you assign in the Laoshi app, which needs a subscription.

everything for a Chinese lesson

Reading textPinyin, translations, audio

DialogueRole-play, you choose the character voices

ListeningA recording and a true-or-false statement

Word listPinyin, translations, audio

TasksQuiz, matching, word order, fill in the gap, sentence translation

Stroke-order writingAnimated stroke order, grids when printed

Video, audio, imagesBy link: YouTube, Bilibili, Google Drive and more

Your own notesText and highlighted notes between tasks

Lessons and foldersUp to 50 tasks per lesson, your own headings, folders by level

ClassesFor groups and one-to-one students

PrintingPrint a lesson as a worksheet: video and audio become QR codes

A whiteboard for your lessonsPen, marker, writing grids, and words and tasks from your lessons right on the board

how to start

build a lessonFrom tasks: text, dialogue, listening, quiz and more.
create a classAdd students by email; they get an invitation.
open the lessonAdd the lesson to the class, open it to your students and see who did what.

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pricing

$12.99a month

$69.99a year — that's $5.83 a month

One subscription, with the Laoshi app included
14 days free
Lessons are free for your students

A month costs less than one lesson.

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questions

Do students pay?

Not for lessons: lessons from you are free for your students. The Laoshi app for studying words needs a subscription.

Do students need to install anything?

No. They get an email invitation, sign in with that email in the browser and open the lesson.

What happens to my lessons if I don't renew?

Students finish the lessons they've started. You won't be able to create new lessons or classes.

I already subscribe to the Laoshi app. Do I pay again?

No. It's one subscription per account: if you have it in the app, Classroom is already open to you.

Can I build lessons from my own texts?

Yes. Only your class sees the lesson.

Does it work for one-to-one teaching?

Yes, a class can have one student.

Is there video calling?

No. Teach wherever you already do; the lesson and homework live in Classroom.

Are there HSK words?

Yes: word lists for HSK levels and for the New HSK Course textbook, levels 1–4.

spend your time on your students

Build your first lesson

14 days free. Lessons are free for your students.

Laoshi — an app and a web classroom for learning Chinese. Red Dot Design Award 2021 · HICOOL 2025 winner, Beijing.

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