🎓 Lesson 12 — Capstone · Put it all together!
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Chapter Twelve — Capstone

A Day in Mandarin 🌅
把所有都用出来!

Walk through one full day in China — morning coffee, asking directions, lunch with a new friend, making weekend plans. Every phrase from Lessons 1-11 working together.

🌅 5 Real Scenarios 🔁 20 Review Phrases 🎓 Course Completion
🎬 5 Mini-Scenarios

One day, end to end — click each line to hear it

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07:30 AM · Morning
Breakfast at the hotel
09:00 AM · Coffee Run
Ordering coffee on your way to work
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10:30 AM · Lost
Asking a stranger for directions
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12:30 PM · Lunch
Meeting a colleague for lunch + compliments
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06:00 PM · Goodbye
Saying goodbye + making weekend plans
🔁 Review

The 20 Most-Used Phrases — Click to Refresh Your Memory

💪 Test yourself — try to remember the English before clicking

If you remember 15+ out of 20, you're conversational. Go use them in real life!

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Starter Complete! You finished the first 12 lessons.

恭喜你!你完成了 Starter 阶段!
Gōngxǐ nǐ! Nǐ wánchéng le Starter jiēduàn!

You can now greet people, order food, bargain, ask directions, talk about family, compliment, discuss weather, handle emergencies, introduce your country, and have a full day in basic Chinese. That's already further than most people who start learning Mandarin.

This is the foundation — not graduation. To truly hold flowing conversations, the next 88 lessons (Builder, Fluent, Master) will deepen your grammar, slang, idioms, and cultural fluency. 加油!(jiā yóu — "keep going!")

🎓 Course Complete!
12 / 12 lessons — 100% done 🚀