Build on what you already know to learn Chinese. Each step on the Chinese acquisition road must come from a place of previous understanding, but that previous understanding is broader than you think.

The Mandarin Blueprint Method is designed to cue you towards these lived experiences so that each element of the language is linked back to you. Each character component has meaning, or it looks like something. You can easily get food at finding what that definition means to you or how it appears visually to you. A Chinese character is often packed with meaning.

Now, while it is true that your past experiences are instrumental in helping you acquire the language, you also must have a logical path surroundings which character. component/ character/ word/ grammar point do I learn next?

You see, it's the order that motivated us to apply for a patent. Each step builds upon the previous, from Pinyin to Tones to Characters to Vocabulary to Grammar. An approach allows for you never to leave your realm of competence. If you are in that realm where you can understand what you are seeing, then you can handle stepping a bit out of that zone and learning something closely related. Now, your realm of competence just got a bit bigger.

Don't know anything about Chinese? How about we start with “一” in the first lesson? A horizontal line is something you can handle, right? Oh, would you look at that! There are three characters you can make with just that horizontal line! 一 二 三！

If you take the language and articulate it down to its baby steps, there is nothing complicated about it. Nothing. Are there a lot of steps? Yeah. The steps of a baby. You can handle a lot of baby steps. You might start making some great leaps forward after a while.