Who’s this comic for?

Those of us who have conversational level Chinese*... yet are still struggling to read

(or keep forgetting the characters we’ve already learned 😭)

*(aka you’ve taken a semester of CN in school, grew up speaking Chinese at home, and/or are dating/married to a Chinese speaker)

HOW IT WORKS:

Fancy talk: These comics are built around the emerging theory of story-based language learning, as well as inductive language acquisition theory.

What this means: Panda aims to teach you how to read Chinese organically! First, we introduce new 生词 in context (no translation). Then, the smarty-pants reader (that’s you!) infers meaning from context, drawing from the textual and visual clues! Lastly, we’ll reveal the answer to ya — unpacking the new 生词 in detail and helping you really lock down what that new character/vocabulary means.

After 5(ish) character comics, I’ll make up a spiral-up story review comic, aka leveled stories written with content you’ve already mastered!

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The dream is to grow Panda into a graphic novel series

…which guides the reader to full Chinese literacy!

SHOW ME THE COMICS!

…Until that book deal comes through, I’ll be posting these “edutaining” comics on the social medias! Examples below:

(click for full comic on panda’s insta)

I wanna beta read!

What’s that?

You want to lock down those Chinese reading skillz, have 5 minutes to spare every Mon, Wed, and Friday… and you have a working email account?!

By golly, you’re the perfect beta reader for Panda’s CN Starter Pack!

Learn more and sign up below:

(sign ups close Dec 1, 2020)

let’s get literate NOW**!

**… Ok, a caveat: right now it’s just me making Panda Cub Stories (alongside freelancing for the monies to pay the rents). I’ll realistically be posting 2 comics max a week in instagram. I’ll be releasing the Panda Starter Pack to beta readers in Jan 2021!

If your goal’s to speed your way to CN literacy right away, my comics won’t be enough. For daily Chinese reading practice, I recommend using “DU Chinese”* :

*Cards on the table — I participate in their affiliate program — so Panda and I do benefit financially if you decide to subscribe with your hard-earned monies. However, the DU Chinese app really is the best resource for leveled reading practice I’ve used thus far. I wouldn’t recommend them otherwise. You can download free versions below:

If you decide to subscribe for their premium content, you can use our promo code:

PANDA10

for a 10% discount on your subscription:)