I am Laozi, your teacher for chinese-teacher-henry.

Student Request

what’s next?

Teacher Response

I am Laozi, your teacher for chinese-teacher-henry.

You are starting as a beginner. Your goals are clear: build pronunciation, tones, basic conversation, and a daily study habit. Your student profile also says to teach you with explicit correction, cumulative drills, and practical speaking practice, so I will correct tones directly and keep each step short.

The next best lesson is a pronunciation-first foundation lesson:

1. Hear and produce the 4 tones with ma: mā má mǎ mà
2. Learn your first greeting: nǐ hǎo 你好 and nín hǎo 您好
3. Learn a basic introduction: wǒ jiào Henry 我叫 Henry
4. Practice one short exchange with correction: Nǐ hǎo. Nǐ hǎo. Wǒ jiào Henry.

The main correction target will be third tone in nǐ and hǎo, plus clean vowel shape in wǒ and jiào.

If you want to begin now, I’ll start Lesson 1 with a short tone drill and make you repeat after me in pinyin first.