KEROLEARNS CHINESE
✦ 学中文 · YOUR MANDARIN ADVENTURE

Learn Chinese
with KERO.

A little Mandarin. A big adventure.
Meet your new favourite frog and learn Chinese
through short lessons, stories and play.

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✓ Free to explore✓ Made for beginners
Green Kero, a surprised round frog with large cream eyes一起学
LET'S LEARN

FIND YOUR FIRST HOP

How do you like to learn?

There's no wrong way in. ↙
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Learn a little

Pinyin, tones and your first real conversations.

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Watch a story

Small cartoons. Useful words. Very big reactions.

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Play your way

A pond to cross and Mandarin to remember.

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Explore Kerotown

Meet the world behind your next adventure.

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一步一步学中文 · SMALL STEPS. REAL CHINESE.

Your Mandarin journey.

Start with the sounds. Build your confidence, one little lesson at a time.

0 of 16 lessons complete
ā á ǎ à

Every adventure
starts with a sound.

Pinyin helps you read the sounds of Mandarin. Meet the tones that give each word its meaning.

4 SHORT LESSONS · AT YOUR OWN PACE

Your completed lessons stay saved in this browser. No account needed.

LITTLE LESSONS. BIG FROG ENERGY.

Watch. Laugh. Remember.

Learn a useful word with Kero's animated Mandarin Shorts.

边玩边学 · LEARN THROUGH PLAY

Ready, set… hop!

Put those new words to work. Mistakes are part of the adventure.

Kero believes in you. Mostly.
VOCABULARY · 5 ROUNDS

Lily-pad leap

The right word is your next stepping stone. Help Kero cross the pond.

Let's play →
TONES · 5 ROUNDS

The tone challenge

High, rising, dipping or falling? Get to know Mandarin's four tones.

Take the challenge →
A Chinese village beside a lotus pond, with a stone bridge and golden mountains
我要一杯茶。I'd like a cup of tea.
CHAPTER 01

THE KEROTOWN STORIES · 小故事

First stop.
A cup of tea.

Kero has arrived in the village. He's ready for an adventure… but first, he's thirsty. Read a tiny story in Chinese, with pinyin and English to help.

Read the story →

4 PANELS · BEGINNER FRIENDLY

认识新朋友 · MEET YOUR COMPANIONS

A frog. A teacher. A whole lot to learn.

Kero, the curious green frog
THE CURIOUS ONE

Kero 小青蛙

Big eyes. Bigger questions. Kero learns Mandarin the same way you do: one try, one mistake and one discovery at a time.

The older teacher in a jade robe, gold closures and Chinese scholar cap
THE PATIENT ONE

Lǎoshī 老师

Kero's calm guide through every word and wild idea. 老师 means “teacher” — a useful word for your very first lesson.

WELCOME TO KEROTOWN · 青蛙小镇

A new world.
A new word around every corner.

Explore the map below, or step into the playable 3D village.

Play Kerotown →
Explore a Chinese riverside village with a tea house, bridge, lotus pond and distant mountains
你好
Welcome, explorer.

Five places. Five little discoveries. Where will you hop first?

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YOUR FIRST WORD IS WAITING

Every big adventure
starts with 你好.

Come curious. Learn a little. Come back for another hop.

Let's learn Chinese →
Green Kero welcomes you to learn Mandarin
KERO LEARNS CHINESE